The thriller Psycho (Hitchcock,1960) has a shower scene from the film in which it is one of the most famous scenes in cinema history. Psycho was filmed in black and white, this made the film more scarier than it would have been in colored images, which created a thriller effect to the film. The scene starts off when the women is sitting down writing in her notebook, this scene created an innocent atmosphere, which links to the calm music being played at the background. However when the women rips up the paper in tiny pieces it created a dramatic atmosphere, the music played at in the background adds to this atmosphere. The music afterwards stop and all we hear is the women having a shower, the fact that its silent creates an intense atmosphere, as we feel like something is going to happen. The camera then turns to the shower curtains in which we see a dark shadow of a person coming towards the women, even though there is no music playing and all we hear is the shower it makes the audience look away as it gets scarier. As soon as the person opens the curtains, scary, dramatic, horrific music is played as we see someone with a knife, the music makes the audience jump even though we knew that something was going to happen like this. The women starts screaming as she is getting stabbed, which makes the audience feel bad and grossed out by hearing the noise when the person is stabbing her. At the end we see the blood in the bath tub which shows the danger and the evilness. The women then falls to the floor in which the camera zooms out of the women's eyes as she lays there, which created one of the best thriller scene of all time. starts with
The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan,1999)
The opening of the thriller film Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan, 1999) begins with titles written in white letters with a black background with the use of spooky intense music playing throughout the whole opening of the film, the use of a dark background and the music makes creates great suspense as the music is playing slowly and the titles and credits are being showed at a slow pace as well. The music started of very low and then started to get louder, this is a great start to the opening of the film as it already sets the genre as a thriller, this therefore makes the audience feel scared, before any action has taken place.
Taken (Pierre Morel, 2008, 2012, 2015)
Critics have applauded Pierre Morel for success with the thriller trilogy of Taken due to the fact that it creates suspense towards the audience. Throughout each film there is a lot of action for example in Taken 2 there were speeding cars and Americans in danger, but the only ones truly taken for a ride is the audience, this is because the way that it was filmed is almost like we were in the action ourselves, which makes it interesting for the audience and creates suspense. The music itself in Taken was very creative to make sure that the audience knew what was going to happen, for example when there was fighting there would be dramatic music being played in the background, also when something sad would happen there would be calm sad music playing to fit the scene.
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