ISL 6

1920’s + 1930’s

1926 - Alfred Hitchcock – The Lodger – was a silent thriller that followed a Jack the Ripper plot.

They used conventions that most modern thriller films use in today’s films.

1940’s

Hitchcock cintinued to release thriller films including:

1940 - Foreign Correspondent

1940 - Rebecca

1941 - Saboteur

1942 - Shadow of a Doubt

Also George Cukor directed a Psychological thriller called ‘Gaslight’ in 1944

1950’s + 1960’s

Hitchcock made a massive change to the thriller genre in the 50’s. He made his thriller is colour, so they were no longer in black and white. He also added a touch of glamour to his films by casting blonde’s to play the leading ladies.

He also released several other films, these include:

1951 - Stragers on a Train

1954 - Dial M for Murder

1954 - Rear Window

1955 - To Catch a Thief

1958 - Vertigo

 

Other films released by other directors:

1955 - Night of the Hunter by Charles Laughton

1958 - A Touch of Evil by orson Welles

1962 - Cape Fear by J.Lee Thompson

 

1970’s + 1980’s

Thriller films of this time started to add horror genre, adding violence into the films, while still maintaining the clear difference between the two.

Thriller films released:

1971 – Play Misty for Me by Clint Eastwood

1971 – Duel by Steven Spielberg

1972 – Frenzy by Alfred Hitchcock

1972 – Deliverance by John Boorman

1973 – Don’t Look Now by Nicholas Roeg

1990’s

Thriller films released:

1990 – Misery by Rob Reiner

1991 – Sleeping with the Enemy

1992 – The Hands That Rocks the Cradle by Curtis Hanson

1992 – Unlawful Entry

1992 – Single White Female by Barbet Schroeder

1993 – Malice by Harold Becker

1999 – The Talented Mr. Ripley by Anthony Minghella

2000’s

Duringt the 21^st century the triller genre moved even closer towards the horro genre. Films contained more blood, gore and deaths. Also combining codes and convetions of actions movies.

Instead of re-using plots from old thriller movies, they decided to modernise the plots. They did this by adding plots the involved governemnt conspiracy, terrorism and large world-wide issues.

Thriller films released:

2001 – Ride

2005 – Hostage

2005 – A History of Violence

2006 – Cellular

2006 – Firewall

2007 – Captivity

2007 – P2

2008 – Eden Lake

2008 – Funny Games

2009 – The Last House on the Left

2011 - Unknown