Intertextuality

Intertextuality - When a film borrows visual or audio elements from another film in a way that the audience will recognise.

Thriller films can use intertextuality in order to create a memorable event or character that their audience will recognise from another film to associate to it.

An example of this is the shower scene in Psycho and this has been used by Intertextuality for the film Nightmare on Elm Street.

Another example of this is that the character Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm street who wears a black and red jacket has been intertextualy used in the film scream as the villain's costume.