Horror and thriller films

The difference between horror and thriller films

There are many differences between horror and thriller films however, the differences are not huge. Many people would not be able to realise the differences between the two genre's but there are differences.

Two good examples which would help show the differences between horror and thriller is Conjuring (the horror) and Sin City (the thriller). The settings for horror are mainly set in abandoned homes, haunted houses and a cabin in the woods, they are places where not many people re around so it gives a frightening atmosphere and normally its dark. The Conjuring is set in a typical location in a haunted house. With the thriller genre the best setting would be the city, police stations is normally the setting and Sin City is based in a city.

Thrillers have more action and mystery themes to them, a lot of answers not told and hermeneutic code is also within the thriller genre complex situations occur and solving mystery's normally happen . This really makes the audience have mixed emotions playing with the audiences mind and builds up tension for a revealing moment. Horrors are completely different they are meant to put fear in the audience and they have effective ways to do by using peoples own minds, the unknown is used against the audience to build fear. Their own imagination is used to create the scariest situation possible which is different from the thriller genre.

Police officers is a normal character for the thriller genre and a crime scene is involved as well, horror is more scarier characters like serial killers and monsters. Thrillers have mostly realistic elements to it while horrors are mostly fictional; both of these genre's have different types of characters, horrors are either monsters, ghosts or crazy killers and are normally over exaggerated but thrillers have twists within the characters and are normally more realistic and smarter then horror characters so it will be easier for them to build up tension for the audience.