What is a Thriller?

A Thriller is a broad genre of a literature, film that uses suspense, tension and excitement. It gives the audience a high expectation of what’s going to happen next. It gives many people emotions, as they can feel the genre of the film. Thriller films tend to be really fast, slow and loud. Thrillers tend to make the audience think, as it puts them on edge.

Examples of Thrillers:

 North by North West

Taken 1 and 2

The great Escape

What is a cliff hanger?

A cliff hanger is a plot device in a fiction film which features a main character in a difficult dilemma. A cliff hanger is hoped to ensure the audience will return to see how the characters resolve the dilemma. Also a cliff hanger puts the audience on edge, sometimes when a thriller film ends you don’t know what happens, and then you want the next film to come out, it puts you on edge and that’s called a cliff hanger.

What is a red herring?

A red herring is an idiom that refers to a logical fallacy that misleads or detracts from the actual issue. For example in a thriller, you will think a character is the bad person, but in fact someone else is as they would change the plot of the story.