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Psychological thriller
A psychological thriller is a specific sub genre of a Thriller, pyschological thrillers include different codes and conventions. The camera work used in psychological thrillers include close ups, which show the audience what he is thinking inside his head. There is a mix of short and long shot duration, depending on how the character is feeling and what is going through their mind. There would be many cross dissolves through scenes, to show confusion and mystery. The characters included in psychological thrillers usually seem normal, but near to the end of the film, we discover its not what we originially thought. Lighting in psychological films is normally dark, artifical lighting to show its mysterious and shows the suspence. The titles in psychological thrillers are usually dark and plain, with slow music to show the genre of the film, and that it is not a happy, comedy film.
It includes elements of mystery and confusion through the mind or processes of the mind. The suspense is usually created from two characters preying upon ones another mind, by playing deceptive games with the other or trying to confuse the other's mental state. Psychological thrillers often make the audience question what happened, examples of this type of sub genre would be the illusionist, inception or shutter Island.
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