List Of Thriller Sub-Genres

A Thriller movie usually consists of its three main elements, Suspense, Tension and Excitement. There are many Sub-genres for a Thriller, some of the most popular ones include:

• Mystery Thriller
• Crime Thriller
• Phychology Thriller
• Action Thriller

And after the assasination of John F Kennedy, a new range of Sub-Genres evolved:

• Political Thriller
• Paranoid Thriller
• Conspiracy Thriller

These became very popular, to this day, and is shown through films such as The Contender and the famous X-files.

Other Thriller Genres are beginning to make their may into the spotlight too, such as:

• Techno Thriller - With its great trilogy of 'The Matrix'
• Supernatural Thriller - 'What Lies Beneath'
• Religious Thriller - 'The Da Vinci Code'
• And Disaster Thriller - 'The Day After Tomorrow'