Detailed research about Thriller

Brief History Of Thriller Genre 

The 1920’s and 1930’s was the early early years of Thriller taking shape. Alfred Hitcock First film was his third silent film The Lodger (1926), a suspenseful Jack the Ripper story. His next thriller was Blackmail (1929), his and Britain’s first sound film. One of the earliest spy films was Fritz Lang‘s Spies (1928) set ideas and othere stories of spy film in the coming  future like James Bond franchise or Alex Raider franchise.  Other British directors, such as Walter Forde, Victor Saville, George A. Cooper directed lot of thriller films during this period.

The 40’s is when Alfred Hitchcock started a new element in Thriller by adding suspense. Also known as suspense-thriller as you might know. He also Directed an Oscar wining best picture Rebecca (1940)  

which is about a romance between a young woman (Joan Fontaine) but overlooked by a housekeeper (Judith Anderson). The 40’s is during the golden age of hollywood and Thriller genre was a part of it.

The 50’s and 60’s is Alfred Hitchcock  Hitchcock added technicolor to his thrillers, now with  glamorous looking Actress and Handsome Actors. He reached the high of his career with a classic films like Strangers on a Train (1951) which is about two train passengers: tennis pro Guy and Bruno trades murders with each other, Dial M For Murder (1954) with  villainous husband who attempts to murder his Innocent wife. The Film Psycho (1960) as we know is a hit and shaped the way of cinema forever.

The 70’s and 80’s the decade saw a violent in the thriller genre, such film like Frenzy (1972) given an R rating in the US for its vicious and explicit strangling  scene. Spy and conspiracy films were spread through the two decades like film  The Black Windmill (1974), from the Clive Egleton  ‘Seven Days to a Killing’, with Michael Caine as MI-5 operative John Tarrant, as an espionage agent.

                     

During the decade of the 80’s was ending with Phillip Noyce’s Dead Calm (1989), a psychological thriller with Nicole Kidman, who must fight to survive yacht against a psycho castaway. This thriller had elements of  trapped character who must find a way to escape the wrath of the villain.

The 90’s and the present. There was new popular element of the thriller genre of detectives agents hunting down a serial killer.  An Oscar winning best picture thriller The Silence of the Lambs (1991) where a young FBI agent Jodie Foster in a psychological war against a cannibalistic psychiatrist named Hannibal Lecter , while she is tracking down transgender serial killer Buffalo Bill. Se7en (1995) from director David Fincher is probably last thriller that was a hit with a mainstream audience after that there was no big Thriller film to remember.

The Key Director of Thriller Genre  

Alfred Hitchcock, There is no doubt he is the godfather of Thriller genre. He has directed over 40 film in the space of 60 years. Which he is Britain greatest director and also give him the name that he deserve ‘The master of suspense’.  thriller film Psycho is considered a key thriller film. The film showed the differences between the roles of men and women. The film used shadowy lighting, discomforting music, quick cuts, close-ups and more. Psycho is the first  thrillers to be a hit and long term ‘classic’.

 Martin Scorsese is another key director. Scorsese is regarded as one of the greatest directors of all time and a game changing director bringing something new and brilliant in every hit film he does. He Directed Hit film like Mean Streets, Taxi Driver and Goodfellas. In 1991 Scorsese directed Cape Fear, a remake of the 1962 version.

   

 Fritz Lang he was dubbed the “Master of Darkness” .His most famous films include the  Metropolis (the world’s most expensive silent of its release) and M, made before he moved to the United States, which is considered to be the key director to the film noir genre.  He was filmmaker, screenwriter, and  film producer and actor.