The thriller genre of film often contains various sub-genres, such as 'Shaun of the dead' incorporating horror, thriller and comedy.
Thrillers are often fast paced, frequently contain action and often have their main characters as a resourceful heroes, such as 'Along came a spider' .
Thrillers are movies that attempt to obtain the emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers.Their plots frequently involve themes of death, the supernatural or mental illness. Many thrillers also include a central villain.
Quasimodo was the first monster to appear on film in the hunchback of Notre-Dame.
Many of the earliest feature length thrillers were created by German film makers in the early 20th century.
The thriller film fell into three main sub-genres: the horror-of-personality film, the horror-of-Armageddon film and the horror-of-the-demonic film.
Thrillers often take place in exotic locations such as foreign cities, deserts, Polar Regions, or high seas like 'Transformers'.
Thrillers have been increasingly influenced by horror or psychological-horror.Due to this influence, monstrous element have become more common such as 'king kong'.
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Some recent thrillers include:
Angels and Demons, it was directed by and produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and John Calley and was written by David Koepp, Akiva Goldsman and the book was written by Dan Brown. It stars Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfrancesco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Armin Mueller-Stahl. It had a budget of $151 million and had a gross income of $485,900,330.
Eagle Eye was directed by D.J. Caruso, it was produced by Steven Spielberg, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Pat Crowley and Ed McDonnell. It was written by John Glenn & Travis Adam Wright, Dan McDermott and Hillary Seitz. The movie starred Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Mackie, Ethan Embry, Julianne Moore and Billy Bob Thornton. It had a budget of $80 million and had a gross income of $178,066,569.
Hannibal the Rising was directed by Peter Webber and produced by Dino De Daurentiis Martha De Laurentiis and Tarak Ben Ammar and starred Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li, Dominic West and Rhys Ifans. The movie had a budget of $50 million and had a gross revenue of $82,169,884 compared to that of "Red Dragon" which grossed a substantial sum of $209,196,298. And "Hannibal" which grossed a massive $351,692,268.
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