Best Thriller Films of all time: Se7en

Se7en

Seven is a 1995 American Neo-Noir crime psychological thriller film directed by David Fincher staring brad pit, Morgan Freedman and Kevin Spacey. 

The Movie is based around Christianity's 7 Deadly Sins. The sins are Greed, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth,Wrath, Lust and Pride. For each sin the Murderer (Kevin Spacey) kills a man, for example for greed he kills a big lawyer in his office. This is because he helps anyone as long as they have the money, no matter who they are. The two detectives (Morgan Freedman and Kevin Spacey) try to track him down before he kills anyone else.

A Brief overview of the movie

The Film uses many different kinds of scenes to create a creepy atmosphere for example it is constantly raining in the moving, creating a depressing effect. This further Introduces the creepiness of the movie.

Best triller films of all time: Psycho

Psycho

1. Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (played by Janet Leigh) is on the run after stealing $40,000 from her employer, to allow her to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (Who is played by John Gavin). They are overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm thus they stop for the night at a ramshackle Bates Motel and meet a young man called norman bates with an interest in taxidermy and a bad relationship with his mother (played by Anthony Perkins)
2. While Norman fixes them a quick dinner, Marion Crane goes for a quick shower promoting one of the most famous murder scenes of all time 
3. Although a very low budget film, directed by Hitchcock it still became one of the most seen films in the box office. It is ranked among the greatest films of all time. 

Best thrillers of all time:Mad Max: Fury Road

Mad Max: Fury Road

A woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in post apocalyptic Australia in search for her homeland with the help of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a drifter named Max.

The movie has relatively famous actors in, Tom hardy as Max, Charlize Theron as Furiosa.

You could judge this movie as a psychoglical thriller, due to the fact that the ruler is seen as a good towards his followers, almost the god of water. However you could also name it as an action/adventure thriller 

 

Famous Thriller Actors: Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Jr.

Robert John Downey. Jr. was born on the 4th of april 1965. He is an american actor who had a period of substance abuse and legal troubles during his mid thirties. He has received a golden globe award for best performance in the film Ally McBeal. His more recent films include Zodiac,Tropic Thunder and most famously the superhero Iron man for his own movies (Ironman 1 - 3) and others (the avengers series) in 2014 he was valued as an actor at around $80 million.  

Famous Thriller Actors : Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp

John Christopher “Johnny” Depp the 2^nd was born on the 9^th of June 1963. He is an American actor, producer and a musician. He is most famous for the pirates of the Caribbean series and his role in Sweeney todd, he started his profession in the war film “Platoon” in 1986, supporting Charlie sheen. He has won a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild award for Best actor. In 2012 he was listed as the highest paid actor with earnings of $75 million.



Famous Thriller Actors: Orlando Bloom

Orlando Bloom

Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom was born on the 13th of January 1977 in an English actor. His Breakthrough into the his film career started with "The Lord of the Rings trilogy" as Legolas. Another famous series of film he is in is the "Pirates of the caribbean" alongside Johnny Depp. In 2013 he was named a UNICEF goodwill Ambassador.

Famous Thriller Actors : Daniel Craig

Daniel Craig

Daniel Wroughton Craig was born on the 2nd of March 1968, he is an english actor who trained at the national youth theatre. After graduating from Guildhall school of music and drama in 1991 he began his career on stage. His first film was "The power of One" and it showed the world what a world class actor he is. In 2005 he was cast as James bond in his first bond film "Casino Royale", since then he has done "Quantum of Solace","Skyfall" and coming out soon "Spectre". He has been signed for at least 5 bond movies so after Spectre, he will have at least one more bond movie. Since he took the role as bond he has been in the mystery thriller "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and made an appearance as bond in the 2012 opening ceremony in London alongside Queen Elizabeth the 2nd.  

Famous thriller directors : Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson

Sir Peter Robert Jackson was born on the 31st of October in 1961 in new Zealand. He is best known as the director and producer of "The lord of the rings" and the "The Hobbit" which are adapted from the novels of J.R.R.Tolkien. In 2003 he won the award for Best director, and has been nominated for nine academy awards. He has also recived a golden globe, four saturn awards and three BAFTAs

Famous Thriller Directors : James Cameron

James Cameron

James Francis Cameron was born in on the 16th of august 1954. He is a Canadian inventor, engineer and film maker. He is most well known for his Terminator movies and in more recent times Avatar, he is very much directed towards si_fi thriller genre as he also wrote the movie "Aliens"

Famous Thriller Directors: George Lucas

George Lucas

George Walton Lucas,Jr. was born on the 14th of May 1944. He is an american film director,screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his films "star wars" and the founder of Lucasfilms, he was the chairman and chief executive of Lucasfilms until he sold it to disney in 2012 for 4.05 Billion Us Dollars.  

Famous thriller directors: Steven Speilberg

Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg was born on the 18th of December 1946, he is an american director. Speilberg is one of the "founding fathers" of the "New Hollywood era". He is viewed as one of the most popular and influential director in film history, later in his career he was one of the co-founders of dreamwork studios.

 He has directed many genres of film but is perhaps most famous for his thriller films such as indiana jones, jurassic park, saving private ryan and jaws.

Themes of thrillers

Themes

Different themes have different types of factors. For example crime thrillers often have kidnappings, heists, revenge, ransoms and heists. The main themes of a thriller are...

• The main character faces death, either his/hers or someone else 
• The villains must have more resources or are just cleverer or stronger than the main character 
• The main story line must be some sort of mission or quest
• The main plot line usually focuses on a mystery that needs to be solved
• Its usually filmed in the view of the main character 
• Every character must feel relate-able to, emotions wise.
• Mystery thrillers are investigations, investigations could have multiple different themes

The girl with the dragon tattoo is a fantastic example of this because it has so many different themes murder,kidnapping, rape , torture and international heisting however it is all combined under an investigation theme, this creates suspense but also a factual interest within the story.

What is a Thriller?

What is a thriller?

A thriller is a genre of literature, video games, film or s television programs that use tension or suspense as its main features. Thrillers make the viewers have a high level of anticipation, uncertainty, surprise, anxiety and terror. Films/Books/video games/programs of this genre tend to be adrenaline-filled and fast-paced. The thriller also provides a sudden rush of excitement with cliff hangers or plot twists.