Psychological - Thrillers
Involve the brain, not just the senses. There is heavy focus on the unstable emotional states of characters and they incorporate elements of mystery, horror and Drama genres also.
Psychological – The mind or processes of the mind. Sometimes the suspense comes from within one character where characters must resolve conflicts with their own minds, to understand something that has happened to them. These conflicts are made more vivid with physical expressions of the conflict in the means of either physical manifestations, or torsions of the characters.
Psychological Thriller – Characters are no longer reliant on physical strength to overcome their brutish enemies but are reliant on their mental resources.
The suspense created by psychological thrillers often comes from two or more characters preying upon one another's minds, either by playing deceptive games with the other or by merely trying to demolish the other's mental state
Key Techniques to use in the genre of a Psychological Thriller
Stream of consciousness – In psychological thrillers, the narrative usually tries to manifest the character's psyche through word usage, descriptions, or visuals.
First-person narrative – a literary technique in which the story is narrated by one or more of the characters, who explicitly refers to him or herself in the first person, that is, "I". This direct involvement that the characters have with the story in turn makes the reader more involved with the characters themselves, and thus able to understand the mechanics of the characters' minds. This technique is often paired with the concept of the unreliable narrator.
Back-story – the history behind the situation extant at the start of the main story. This deepens the psychological aspect of the story since the reader is able to more fully understand the character; more specifically, what the character's motivations are and how his past has shaped his current cognitive perceptions.
First-person narrative – a literary technique in which the story is narrated by one or more of the characters, who explicitly refers to him or herself in the first person, that is, "I". This direct involvement that the characters have with the story in turn makes the reader more involved with the characters themselves, and thus able to understand the mechanics of the characters' minds. This technique is often paired with the concept of the unreliable narrator.
Back-story – the history behind the situation extant at the start of the main story. This deepens the psychological aspect of the story since the reader is able to more fully understand the character; more specifically, what the character's motivations are and how his past has shaped his current cognitive perceptions.
15 Psychological - Thrillers
The Talented Mr Ripley - Anthony Minghella, 1999
Fatal Attraction - Adrian Lyne, 1987
The Game - David
Fincher, 1997
Cape Fear - Martin
Scorsese, 1991
American Psycho - Mary Harron, 2000
Les Diaboliques - Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955
Straw Dogs - Sam
Peckinpah, 1971
Play Misty for Me - Clint Eastwood, 1971
The Usual Suspects - Bryan Singer, 1995
Memento - Christopher
Nolan, 2000
Se7en - David
Fincher, 1995
Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese, 1976
The Manchurian Candidate - John Frankenheimer, 1962
Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock, 1954
Silence
of the Lambs - Jonathan Demme, 1991
Silence of the Lambs
Clarice
Starling, a young intelligent FBI trainee, has been sent to the Batlimore state
hospital for the Criminally insane to interview an inmate Dr. Hannibal – the
cannibal – Lecter. A brilliant and renowned psychiatrist turned serial killer.
She must match wits with Lecter to gain clues in the search for “Buffalo Bill”
– an unknown psychopathic serial killer.
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