We all go to the cinema to experience life that we wouldn’t ourselves, things that would scare us half to death! Thrillers provide ‘thrills’ for us by displaying events that in our extremely sheltered and protected society would vary rarely, in everyday life, be unlikely to happen. These thrills are created to allow us to break the mold from our normal, boring lives, and experience something really intense and thought provoking to challenge our aspect on life. The best place to experience this is the cinema, which in a good film uses mind-blowing technology to allow us as an audience to participate in the film personally. In the cinema they like to launch the viewer into the ‘danger zone’ using camerawork allowing them to experience a really intense event at first hand. Another technique common with cinema is for them to create a danger for a character the audience have won sympathy for. Seeing these techniques used on stage is a lot less effective seeing as the viewer can only experience these events from a spectators view, and receive thrills vicariously.
Horror films are completely different to Thrillers however as they portray brutal, horrific events and create unnatural excitement which most viewers find uneasy. Horror, originally meaning ‘extreme aversion’ was made to provide emotional jolt, exploit sadism, perversion, bestiality and deformity. Most logical viewers see the dividing line between thrillers and horrors, and are generally healthy-minded. Viewers want a film that will create great excitement, set their pulses racing (but without causing them extreme trauma!) and leave them wanting more. This is why the Thriller will continue to live on and thrive, and the Horror film will fade out.
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