Thriller Recipes and Conventions

Thriller is a very broad genre, yet with thrillers there are certain things that makes a thriller a thriller and not some other genre. For example thrillers tend to have a certain amount of action then has a small break and then goes back to the action to keep the audience on the edge of their seat.

Thrillers also tend to contain a certain type of tense music whenever something important happens or the lead up to a main scene.

Thrillers also contain things called mac guffins in which the story of the thriller is around, it can be pretty much anything in the film. Its something that the characters of the film care about where as the audience don't care about it, they care much more the characters of the film and what is going to happen to them.

According to the director Alfred Hitchcock thrillers allow the audience "to put their toe in the cold water of fear to see what it's like" which most thrillers do as nobody would like to have a life like that of a thriller film so thrillers do indeed let us see what it would actually be like without us being harmed.