Thriller

Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful equipped villains. Thrillers use such devices as suspense, red herrings and cliff hangers. Thrillers often take place wholly or partly in exotic settings such as foreign cities, deserts, polar regions, or high seas. The heroes in most thrillers are frequently "hard men" accustomed to danger: law enforcement officers, spies, soldiers, seamen or aviators.
However, they may also be ordinary citizens drawn into danger by accident.

Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened. Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the overthrow of governments. Jeopardy and violent confrontations are standard plot elements.
Thrillers often use voyerism- Use of image in which someone secretly and unknowingly focuses attention on another. This is used in thriller where often a antagonist is watch his or hers victim or the protagonist.

There are sub-genres such as

• Action thriller (Die Hard, James Bond)
  
• Crime thriller (Inside Man, Derailed)
  
• Erotic thriller
• Conspiracy thriller (The Da Vinci code, JFK)
  
• Horror thriller (Saw, Creep, Rise)
  
• Legal thriller (Michael Clayton)
  
• Psychological thriller (se7en, The silence of the lambs, Hannibal)
  
• Medical thriller
  
• Supernatural thriller (What lies beneath)
  

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