RESEARCH ON HORROR GENRE & GENRE CYCLES
Thriller is a genre that uses suspense, excitement and tension as it main elements to make it a successful genre. The main subgenres of thrillers are: mystery, crime and psychological thrillers. They are most known for the atmosphere they create, menace, violence, crime and murder with it all being shown in a dark, corrupt and dangerous setting. Thriller use lots of literary devices like red herrings and cliff hangers as well as promoting a mood such as high level of anticipation, adrenaline rush, uncertainty and anxiety.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(genre)
Horror genre films are movies that try to unsettle and use the emotions of fear, disgust and horror against the viewer. They also use jump scenes to continue to scary and frighten as well as startling them. Common horror films use viewer’s nightmares, fears and the terror of the unknown in films. Horror films are based around a monster or creature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_film
Example of this genre:
Psycho made in 1960 is an American film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. This was one of the first films that had the genre thriller as well as being one of the first films that had a monster or create who was human where as all films before this was an unhuman character.
Genre Cycles
Genre cycles are when a new genre is created and it begins to grow and the iconography and repertoire of elements gradually begin to become known to audiences. As the audience begin to get to know the genre and its characteristic audiences can easily guess what will happen in a film and the film gradually gets adapted and changes and then you come back to the start of a cycle as someone creates a film which is different.
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