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Psychological Thriller Characteristics

This genre often incorporates elements from the mystery and drama genre in addition to the typical traits of the thriller genre. Psychological Thriller Characteristics. Conflicts. The suspense created often comes from two or more characters preying upon one another's minds

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Psychological Thriller Characteristics

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  1. This genre often incorporates elements from the mystery and drama genre in addition to the typical traits of the thriller genre. Psychological Thriller Characteristics

  2. Conflicts • The suspense created often comes from two or more characters preying upon one another's minds • either by playing deceptive games with the other or by merely trying to demolish the other's mental state. • Sometimes the suspense comes from within one solitary character where characters must resolve conflicts with their own minds. • Usually, this conflict is an effort to understand something that has happened to them. These conflicts are made more vivid with physical expressions of the conflict in the means of either physical manifestations, or physical torsions of the characters at play.

  3. Literary Devices and Techniques • Stream of consciousness– written by the character's thought processes. • Done using visuals or word description • First-person narrative - story is narrated by one or more of the characters ("I“). • This makes the reader more involved • Back-story - the history behind the situation • what the character's motivations are and how his past has shaped his current cognitive perceptions.

  4. Themes Reality – The quality of being real. Perception – A person's own interpretation of the world around him through his senses. Mind – The human consciousness; the location for personality, thought, reason, memory, intelligence and emotion. Existence/Purpose - The object for which something exists; an aim or a goal humans strive towards to understand their reason for existence. Identity - The definition of one's self. Death - The cessation of life.

  5. Philosophical Issues Metaphysics - tries to explain the world and define reality, a task that psychological thrillers try to do themselves. Ethics- The investigation of what is right and what is wrong.

  6. Examples Darren Aronofsky – Director of Pi and Requiem for a Dream David Fincher– Director of Se7enand Fight Club. Alfred Hitchcock– Director of Psycho Richard Kelly – Director of Donnie Darko. Christopher Nolan– The Dark Knightand Memento M. Night Shyamalan– Director of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.

  7. Videos Flight Club Donnie Darko Momento

  8. Horror Movies Movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear and terror from viewers. Their plots frequently involve themes of death, the supernatural, or mental illness. Many horror movies also include a central villain. Horror films have been dismissed as violent, low budget B movies and exploitation films.

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