Psychological Thriller features

Psychological Thriller

·Psychological thriller is a fictional thriller story which emphasizes the psychology of its characters and their unstable emotional states.

·"Dissolving sense of reality", moral ambiguity, and complex and tortured relationships between obsessive and pathological characters.

·Psychological thrillers often incorporate elements of mystery, drama, action, and horror, particularly psychological horror.

·Themes:

·Reality

·Perception

·Mind

·Existence/Purpose

·Identity

 ·Death.

·In psychological thrillers, characters often battle their own minds: they attempt to determine what is real, who they are, and what life's purpose is.

 

• Character may be threatened with death, be forced to deal with the deaths of others, or fake their own deaths.   

·Common elements may include stock characters, such as a hardboiled detective and    serial killer, involved in a cat and mouse game.

·Water, especially floods, is frequently used to represent the unconscious mind.