Genre Difference, Repetition and Similarities

 The thriller genre consists of very different types of movies. It is one genre that despite having the movies being categorized in the same section many of them are completely different from each other.
Some Thriller films that are indeed very different would be "Frozen" and "The Crazies".

Whilst "The Crazies" is an Action Thriller, "Frozen" is a psychological thriller. If we just analyze the trailers for both of these films it is already possible to determine differences in the two films.

The crazies has a very fast paced editing. And sometimes a thrilling music and other times a fast paced action music. Also, it differs from "Frozen" due to the use of explosions and fight scenes sometimes shown in the trailer.





Frozen, however has a more slow paced editing, along with long non-dietetic background music that plays along. Frozen is about these childhood friends who get stuck in a ski-lift and their struggle for survivability encountering many psychological occasions (i.e. their friend who jumped down and was eaten by wolves) that may cause trauma in their future lives.






Despite the two thrillers being very different they also share a few similarities. Because to be honest, in order to be classified as thrillers they also need to have some similarities. The most basic and obvious one is that both of them are thrilling. the use of the non-dietetic sounds, the parts where the editing gets slower, all these contribute to the thriller genre. In "Frozen" the audience felt tension to know whether the guy who jumped down is going to survive the wolves while in "The Crazies" tension is built when Ben is present in a scene where he pretends to attack his victim. Both of them thrill you, but in different ways, and I believe this is what is so interesting about thrillers.