history of thriller films

History of thriller films.

Alfred Hitchcock was the creater of thriller films, his first thriller film was called The lodger in 1926, which was a suspenseful story about Jack the ripper.  The tow actors that were apart of the making of thrillers films ere Ivor Novello and Marie Ault. Thriller films have got so much more blood and gory these days. Thriller films used to be more psychological, in the days of Hitchcock the thriller films would play on the minds of the audience, where as today they still do this put there is more violence and horrid scenes in which the audience are scared to watch but the aim for thrillers are still the same in the sense of  keeping the audience alert and on the edge of their seats and also to create a mystery within the thriller film. Common conventions and themes that are found in thrillers are mainly ransoms, captivitiess, revenge, kidnappings, weak vicitms and strong powerful attackers. More common conventions that are found in now day thrillers are investigations and the mystery of who done the crime and why.

One of the thriller films that have been banned is the Natural born killers which was released in 1994 and directed by Oliver Stone. The film was about two lovers who embarked on a vicious murder spree. The movie was banned completely in Ireland, and denied distribution in the USA because the amount of blood and gore. The produces of this thriller film cut about four minutes of footage, resulting in the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) allowing its distribution.
The film is extremely controversial as it glorifies the acts of murder,  the killers were almost seen  like regular celebrities with fans. There are also some copycat murders. The most famous of which is the Columbine High School massacre. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered twelve people during a rampage, whilst reportedly shouting quotes from the movie. The film was said to have influences on what the public did and how they acted so they had to ban the film until they cutted the worse parts out of it.

The Lodger film was released in 1926 and it was the first thriller film that has been released, even though it was a silent film. Which was a film about a land lady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London. the first sound film was introduced to films in 1929, The first thriller film that had sound was the thriller Blackmail in 1929, but also was released in a silent version. The film is about a young woman who kills a man who tries to rape her, then finds herself caught between investigating detective (who happens to be her boyfriend) and a blackmailer.

The film taken 2 was released in 2012, it is a film about someone being taken by gang members that were previously killed by the father of the taken film. Compared to the lodger thriller film taken is completely different in the sense of equipment, actors and location, for example the location of the lodger was a simple house where the location of taken is in a whole city in Turkey.

This research will help me understand how thriller films have developed over time and I now know the benefits of technology within thriller films. This post is going to help me understand what era our thriller film comes from and why. This will help me in my thriller film as I know modern and old fashioned techniques that were used that I can consider to use in my thriller film.