The thriller includes numerous, often overlapping sub-genres. Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, lots of action, and the character of the hero who must thwart the plans of the more-powerful and better-equipped villain character. Suspense and cliffhangers are used often.The thriller genre is a story that is usually a mix of fear and excitement. It has traits from the suspense genre and often from the action, adventure or mystery genres, but the level of terror makes it borderline horror fiction at times as well. It generally has a dark or serious theme, which also makes it similar to a drama.
The opening of a Thriller film usually contains something that draws us in a viewers such as something that we want explained so will continue to watch the film to discover what is happening and why.
Sub genres are identifiable sub-classes of the larger category of Main film genres , with their own distinctive subject matter, style and formulas. Some are them are prominent sub-genres, such as: biopics, 'chick' flicks, detective/mystery films, disaster films, fantasy films, film noir, 'guy' films, melodramas (or 'weepers'), road films, romances, sports films, supernatural films, and thriller/suspense films.
The location of a thriller is usually somewhere that is interesting, as to catch the audiences attention,for example, "The Davinchi code" is set in a famous french art gallery, and you are instantly drawn in to the films location as it is somewhere that you know of and are intrigued as to why the film would be set there.
Set design,costume and props are all also important as they provide part of the story, if a man is in a suit the audience wants to know why. If a man is wearing rags, the audience will again want to know why and how it ties into the film and what they mean. They really set the scene as there colors can have certain connotations and show people and locations in a certain light. For example, if you were to watch a film with a black location you can tell the film is going to be dark and usually serious.
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