Why "Thrillers" thrive

The article called: Why "Thrillers" thrive is about the deep contrast of horror and thriller films and how thriller will always dominant horror films. This article explains to the reader what makes a good thriller - considering that the article was written in 1936, we can see that the 'Thriller' is still very much the same; and one of societies favourite genres of film.

One quote which stands out to us is: 'it isn't practicable to experience sufficient thrills at firsthand.' For us this shows that thrillers movies are filling a gap and catering for something that we can't legally experience in our everyday lives - i.e. killing people or purposely crashing a plane into Zeppelin. Furthermore we see from the article that 'watching a well-made film, we don't sit by as spectators; we participate.' - this reinforces that the audience are sub-consciously involved in the film as the audience can often relate to the narrative therefore being more engaged.

Furthermore, the choice of micro-elements and conventions used in the creation of the film, in the article the film is said to have a '-blackout-' this convention is added into the film to represent the death of the pilot (which we as the audience have been in the point of view of') - and the effects of this are clear to us 'a palpable shuddering runs through the audience' this gives the vivid sense that a thriller is adrenaline-rushing yet is safe as it isn't first-hand experience.

The last paragraph we think as a group is very simplistic but the effect has a high impact. It straightforwardly summaries the articles main point, explaining that a thriller will always live and the horror will die. "A "thriller" must be wholehearted - the more exciting the better. And that is why the authentic "thriller" will live and thrive, and the "horror" film will die." The last words written in the article are likely to stay in the readers mind because of the significance it has.