Task 8 - History of the Thriller genre

The First Thriller Film
1 Apr 1923
The first thriller film ever made was Safety Last! and it was directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor.

Alfred Hitchcock
14 Feb 1927
Alfred Hitchcock creates his first thriller film. It is named 'The Lodger' and is similar to the story of Jack the Ripper. Alfred Hitchcock is arguably the most famous thriller movie maker ever.

Thrillers in Technicolor
23 Aug 1948
Alfred Hitchcock turned the thriller genre around at this time by making the first technicolour thriller films. This improved the mise-en-scene of films as it allowed different lighting and colour into the films. Rope was a technicolour film by Hitchcock released in 1948.

Psycho
16 Jun 1960
This is another one of Hitchcock's films - it is one of the most well-known thriller films ever. In the film, a woman steals money from her employer. When she flees, she stops at a motel where she is murdered.

Cape Fear
12 Apr 1962
This was a filmed directed by J. Lee Thompson and written by John D. McDonald. It features a lawyer's family being stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.

The First 007 Film
5 Oct 1962
The famous James Bond films were inspired by a set of books. The films are spy/thrillers. Dr. No was the first film released and many more followed.

Horror/thrillers
3 Nov 1971
During the 70s, more hybrids of horror and thriller films were being created. This involved more violence and gore in the thriller films. An example is Play Misty For Me, released in 1971.

Scream
20 Dec 1996
Scream is a very famous thriller film about a masked killer murdering teenagers in a small town. It inspired many sequels.

Inception
8 Jul 2010
Inception is a recent thriller film. It is one that explores complex narratives in thrillers. It was directed and written by Christopher Nolan and stars Leonardo DiCaprio - who appears in many thriller films.

These are very well known Thriller film in history, as they are still known today shows the amount of people who loved them and shows that the still have an effect on society. Also as you see, the closer to 2016 the films get, the more graphic they get. I think that this is good because in the modern world of technology, we can get things to look a lot more realistic and scary.

I think that I will probably watch a few of these films to get inspiration for my film opening. I think that they will also have clips that I may want to take inspiration from. I think that thrillers are a good genre to do as I know that it is quite easy to scare someone with a type of music, following the character in a dark room and a titled angled camera. But I know that this project is going to be fun but hard also.

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