CONVENTIONS: thillers are generally fast paced, action packed and based around a hero defeating the plans of a villain or indeed killing the villain- typically the hero is a butch male accustomed to fighting, but this is not always the case. Female heroines are becoming more popular as are heroes who have accedentally or unwillingly been drawn into the situation.- There is also usually a helpless heorine in need to rescue from the villain, hense the masculine hero.
Thillers are often compared to mysterys due to the defeating of the criminal or antagonist. However the general scale of the crime is much larger (multiple murder, torture, general jeapody and violence...) heroes often know all along who the villain is, and defeat their further plans unlike mysteries that tend to uncover the villain at the end.
A thriller must be emotive, it must 'thrill' the audience and lead them from one thing to another allowing them to geuss what is to happen next, only to be proven wrong, but adding to the suspense.
SUB GENRES: These are ever growing. As long as the thriller contains the conventions there appears to be no limit as to what kind of sub genre could be in the background.
Here is a list of frequently used sub genres:
spy thriller, action-adventure thriller, medical thriller, police thriller, romantic thriller, historical thriller, political thriller, religious thriller, high-tech thriller, military thriller.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(genre)
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