Film Genre's Continued And Psychological thrillers research

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After brainstorming ideas i discovered that it would be very tricky to create a comedy, due to the lack of funny actors and i don't think I'm a good enough writer to write the script for a opening to a comedy.
Therefore i decided i wanted to create a drama. After looking through the idea's i came up with i decided i wanted to expand on my idea and create a hybrid genre movie opening.
I first idea for the movie is about a boy struggling to fit in (not very intresting and done before)

- Horror drama hybrid, where the boy could go around murdering people
This is a quite well used plot idea of a troubled person murdering other people.
An example is John Carpenter's Halloween 1978
- Action drama Hybrid, i struggled to come up with a idea that would work well. A secret agent child? Too hard to achieve and personally wouldn't be a very good finished project.

I then looked into the triller Genre.
These are a few key points about "Thriller films"
- includes numerous and often overlapping sub-genres
 Such as Action, Conspiracy, Crime, Disaster, Drama, Erotic, Legal, Medical, Political, Psychological, Spy, Techno and religious thrillers.
- Most thrillers are formed in a combination of the above for example
Robocop directed by Paul Verhoeven 1988. Which is a techno/political/conspiracy/military thriller.


- Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more powerful and better equipped villains. They followed Propps 7 recurring character types.
- Literary devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliffhangers are used extensively
- Jeopardy and violent confrontations are standard plot elements
- In recent years, when thrillers have been increasingly influenced by horror or psychological-horror exposure in pop culture, an ominous or monstrous element has become common to heighten tension
- Thrillers may be defined by the primary mood that they elicit: fearful excitement. In short, if it "thrills", it is a thriller.


I am quite intrested in psychological thrillers so i have looked into them more

Psychological thriller is a specific sub-genre of the wide-ranging thriller genre. However, this genre often incorporates elements from the mystery and drama genre in addition to the typical traits of the thriller genre. Also, occasionally this genre will border into the also wide-ranging Horror genre.

Generally, thrillers focus on plot over character, and thus emphasize intense, physical action over the character's psyche. Psychological thrillers tend to reverse this formula to a certain degree, emphasizing the characters just as much, if not more so, than the plot.

Deconstruction of the definition

• Psychological – Elements that are related to the mind or processes of the mind; they are mental rather than physical in nature.

• Thriller – A genre of fiction that attempts to "thrill" its audience by placing characters at great risk. This constant unease throughout the story makes the narrative suspenseful to the reader by creating a tense atmosphere.

• Psychological + Thriller – By combining these two terms, the definition changes to a narrative that makes the characters exposed to danger on a mental level rather than a physical one. Characters are no longer reliant on physical strength to overcome their brutish enemies (which is often the case in typical action-thrillers), but rather are reliant on their mental resources, whether it be by battling wits with a formidable opponent or by battling for equilibrium in the character's own mind.

A few very good examples of Psychological thrillers are 

Seven (Also known as se7en)

Seven (stylized as Se7en) is a 1995 American crime film directed by David Fincher and written byAndrew Kevin Walker. The story follows a retiring detective (Morgan Freeman) and his replacement (Brad Pitt), jointly investigating a series of ritualistic murders inspired by the seven deadly sins.

Seven is a very twisted movie created by David Fincher, by using plot twists and very distrubing imagery and themes it manages to make you think about it for weeks and weeks. 

Donnie Darko

Donnie Darko is a 2001 American science fiction film written and directed by Richard Kelly. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Noah Wyle,Jena Malone, and Mary McDonnell, and depicts the reality-bending adventures of the title character as he seeks the meaning and significance behind his troubling Doomsday-related visions.

"Donnie Darko creates an atmosphere of eerie calm and mounting menace"