Sub Thriller Genres

The Thriller Genre has evolved as of late and has expanded into a whole new variety of Sub Thriller Genres. Theese are becoming increasingly popular with the general public because being 'thrilled' is no longer enough.

 Sub-genres

Conspiracy Thriller

This type of genre consists of some sort of hero or heroine (protagonist) who are stereotypically journalists or armature investigators who find themselves trapped in a very powerful organisation. The companies are usually brought down by the protagonist character. This is all about Good vs. Evil. Conspiracy thrillers often play with the secrecy of governments and major organisations in history.
Crime Thriller

The hybrid between crime and thriller has created a more suspenseful account to showing successful and failed crime acts on film. Crime thrillers emphasise action over psychological aspects although there is also a psychological part to this genre as-well. Topics covered are usually double-crosses, heists, shootouts, chases, robberies, killers &murders. Crime thrillers focus more on the criminals and their actives.
Disaster Thriller

This sub-genre follows a certain groups or persons survival in conflict with natural or artificial disaster like floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes eruptions. Some disaster films have also had causes of human activity that has brought mankind on the fence of extinction through nuclear disasters which are artificial. This genre is all about the future and what could happen to mankind if such disasters were to happen.
Mystery Thriller

This sub-genre clashes with the crime sub-genre. However it focuses mostly on the efforts of the detective or the private investigator in order to solve the films enigma. The sub-genre looks at the happenings of the enigma or the crime itself in order to try and figure out what the clues add up to. Audiences are made to take part of the search as they usually follow the protagonise and grow a strong bond with them. This brings a more dramatic effect to the films mystery during the investigation.
Political Thriller

This sub-genre looks into the hopes and stability of the government and the reliance on a hero or heroine (protagonist) who must ensure the stability of the government that employs him in order to prevent a bad things from happening. Repeatedly used scenarios are the US presidential elections and the preventions of world wars occurring .
Religious Thriller

This sub-genre looks at the plots closely religious objects, institutions and questions. Many religious related films usually unravel the positive and the negetive points about religion and how it overcomes the bad in films, through a quest to finding out the truth

Supernatural Thriller

This sub-genre often brings an otherworldly element that shows something out of the ordinary happening to a protagonist that had to overcome this powerful factor. Supernatural thrillers are also mixed in with tension and suspense in addition to having unsuspected twist during the film. The hero and the villain usually have a close link to religious thrillers as usually daemons entering the human body, alien life form, apparitions or the possession of a pivotal character is a element of a super natural thriller film
Techno Thriller

This sub-genre is all out the sophisticated technology playing a prominent part in taking over the world, giving the new world order where mankind is then run by robots. This subgenre is mainly based on fictional speculations on life that tend to follow a science fiction trend. There are many common themes that fall well into this category like world wars, action and science fictional occurrences like aliens taking over with a new manipulation of technologies