Genres & Sub Genres

Thrillers are most commonly used in hybrid with other genres. For example the genre action thriller. There are many different types of thrillers. Here are some of the different types of thriller genres you can get:

• Action Thrillers
• Western Thrillers
• Film - Noir Thrillers
• Rom - Com Thrillers
• Horror Thrillers

These are all types of films known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. Those are the main different genres of thrillers films, now I'm going to move onto the primary main sub genres of thriller films. The three primary sub genres of thriller are:

• Mystery Thrillers
• Crime Thrillers
• Psychological Thrillers

Some other sub genres that have become popular over the years have been known as political thrillers and paranoid thrillers. These 2 sub genres are known as secondary sub genres and began to become more and more famous after the assassination of president Kennedy. The cover-up of important information from the viewer and fight/chase scenes are common methods in all of the thriller subgenres, although each subgenre has its own characteristics and methods. Common methods in crime thrillers are mainly ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge, kidnappings. More common in mystery thrillers are investigations and the whodunit technique. Common elements in psychological thrillers are mind games, psychological themes, stalking, confinement/deathtraps, horror-of-personality, and obsession. Elements such as conspiracy theories, false accusations, paranoia, and sometimes action are common in paranoid thrillers.

Here is a list that includes all of the different thriller genres:

Conspiracy thrillers
Crime thrillers

Disaster thrillers

Erotic thrillers

Legal thrillers

Medical thrillers

Mystery thrillers

Political thrillers

Psychological thrillers

Rape and Revenge thrillers

Religious thrillers

Supernatural thrillers

Techno thrillers