Why Thrillers Thrive

  Our summary of 'why thrillers thrive' is that because a thriller consists of  a kind of experience that we wouldn't experience ourselves, or by having the same life with a difference; the difference being an emotional disturbance - therefore creating a type of 'thrill' - the starting point of why thrillers thrive. The experience throughout a thriller also makes the audience feel shaken up, grow sluggish and jellified; unlike any type of film; but this type of film makes it possible for experiences that make us feel like this; but at the same time having the feeling of being safe. Thrillers thrive on the fact that the experiences created produce  firsthand experience enclosed in a screen. The article also explains that cinema can leave the spectator with a subconscious assurance of absolute safety, and yet surprise his imagination into playing tricks on him. Another way that makes thrillers s successful as they are is the 'secondary type of thrill'. This is participation, this is creating the effect that danger is coming or is about to happen to a character that the audience has grown sympathetic for. This in turn makes screen more effective that theatre as great danger can be created when in actual fact there is no danger about to occur. During the winter and autumn the thrillers are usually released as this is the peak time that people go and watch them.

  The article also explain that 'Horrors' differ from 'thrillers' they both have different effects in which they use in order to thrill the audience in some way. However the main aims are slightly different due to the fact that 'thrillers' aim to create a safe environment but in turn thrill and excite spectators, whereas 'Horrors' sometimes push boundaries too far and leave spectators genuinely scared and upset - sometimes for a long period of time afterward opposed to creating a thrill , exciting the audiences and making them in a way feel better about themselves like most thrillers do. 

 Overall what makes a thriller thrive is the fact that you're unknowingly feeling secure and safe, but more knowing that it could be you in the place of a specific character; so mind games are being played on you, or a sense of being insecure; giving you a thrill in which you feel unstable, and again sluggish, jellified and shaken up. Spectators enjoy thrills and different way in which they are made to feel insecure but unselfconsciously knowing that they are safe, all of the points made are the elements that make thrillers thrive and make them as successful as they are.