A psychological thriller movie is one that deals with suspense by getting into your mind. Instead of just being about blood and gore, the plot focuses on how the mind can be disturbed and horrified. These psychological suspense movies may have lots of action and some blood, but the main intent is the element of the psyche.
General trends have appeared throughout the narratives. Some of these consistent themes include:
Reality – The quality of being real. Characters often try to determine what is true and what is not within the narrative.
Perception – A person's own interpretation of the world around him/her through his/her senses. Often characters misperceive the world around them, or their perceptions are altered by outside factors within the narrative.
Mind – The human consciousness; the location for personality, thought, reason, memory, intelligence and emotion. The mind is often used as a location for narrative conflict, where characters battle their own minds to reach a new level of understanding or perception.
Existence/Purpose – The object for which something exists; an aim or a goal humans strive towards to understand their reason for existence. Characters often try to discover what their purpose is in their lives and the narrative's conflict often is a way for the characters to discover this purpose.
Identity – The definition of one's self. Characters often are confused about or doubt who they are and try to discover their true identity.
Death – The end of life. Characters either fear or have a fascination with death.
Techniques within psychological thrillers
Stream of consciousness – a literary technique which seeks to describe an individual's point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes. In psychological thrillers, the narrative tries to manifest the character's psyche through word usage, descriptions, or visuals.
First-person narrative – a literary technique in which the story is narrated by one or more of the characters, who explicitly refers to him or herself in the first person, that is, "I". This direct involvement that the characters have with the story in turn makes the reader more involved with the characters themselves, and thus able to understand the mechanics of the characters' minds. This technique is often paired with the concept of the unreliable narrator.
Back-story – the history behind the situation extant at the start of the main story. This deepens the psychological aspect of the story since the reader is able to more fully understand the character; more specifically, what the character's motivations are and how his past has shaped his current cognitive perceptions.
Top 10 Thrillers - IMDb
1) I Am Number Four (2011)
2) Unknown (2011)
3) The Next Three Days (2010)
4) Black Swan (2010)
5) 127 Hours (2010)
6) Drive Angry 3D (2011)
7) The Mechanic (2011)
8) Sanctum (2011)
9) Inception (2010)
10) The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Film Openings Include:
-Details of cast and crew
-Film title
-Introduction to character or character type
-Indication of place and historical period
-Information regarding mood and tone
-Introduction to signature theme tune
-Information about genre
-Questions that the viewer finds intriguing
-Patterns and tyes of editing
-Mise en scene and cinematography
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