This genre is a sub-genre of thriller, but sometimes incorporates elements from mystery and drama as well as the typical traits of the thriller. It also occasionally touches on the horror genre.
When a psychological thriller is combined with a horror, it is very often based on fears, guilt, and beliefs. It is more about normal human beings rather than monsters and gore, like in a horror. It tends to be more subtle than a traditional horror with less physical violence than a horror and aims to mentally affect the audience.
A psychological thriller refers to films that employ a scenario in which characters must use their minds, not their bodies, to survive some manner of life-threatening conflict. A good psychological thriller must contain a chase, or ‘cat-and-mouse game’. To be considered a psychological thriller and not a horror the chaser and the chased must be around equal stature, to eliminate the threat of violence.
There are a host of different ways in which psychological trauma can be leveraged, but if it's to be used properly, it needs to involve more than just a brutal decision making process (which is essentially what the 'Saw' franchise boils down to minus the gore). The filmmaker needs to push a character until they begin to doubt their own grip on reality.
A few scary scenes are fine, but the lasting scars of a psychological thriller tend to follow when a character does finally lose their grip reality.
Mis-en-scene
Our aim was to create an eerie, dark scene which had an aire of mystery. In order to achieve this, we decided to film on a day with a little sunshine, so that we could still have a clear picture, but on a day with a little cloud so there was not too much colour. Typically thriller films have very de-saturated colouring so we wanted to show this as much as possible, we also edited it to make the colours greyer.
We picked a windy day to film so that our actress' hair would blow in the wind. Wind adds to the mood because it makes it seem colder, coldness is associated with unhappiness and fear. It also adds to the aire of mystery.
Our setting is a farm track by a building that stores farm
Mis-en-scene
Our aim was to create an eerie, dark scene which had an aire of mystery. In order to achieve this, we decided to film on a day with a little sunshine, so that we could still have a clear picture, but on a day with a little cloud so there was not too much colour. Typically thriller films have very de-saturated colouring so we wanted to show this as much as possible, we also edited it to make the colours greyer.
We picked a windy day to film so that our actress' hair would blow in the wind. Wind adds to the mood because it makes it seem colder, coldness is associated with unhappiness and fear. It also adds to the aire of mystery.
Our setting is a farm track by a building that stores farm
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