Psychological Thriller:
A psychological thriller is another sub-genre of thriller. It is when the conflict between the main characters is emotionally based, and in order to defeat your enemies you have to overpower them mentally rather than physically. As it is a mentally based genre, it incorporates elements from the mystery genre and through the film they are exposed to danger on a mental level. Examples of psychological thrillers are: The Silence of the Lambs, Seven, Fight club etc.
The image on the left is showing a poster for another psychological film; The Sixth Sense. The background of the poster is black to add to the sense of mystery and contributes to the idea that it is a thriller as most movie poster a dark and eery yet simply. The image is showing the five senses with a sixth one being added ( hence the name)which informs the audience that something is going to happen within the characters mind that is out of the ordinary( which is common in psychological thrillers) and this will be the main plot. The tag line "not every gift is a blessing" connotes that is something that not everyone would wish to have as it is frightening so it shows something within the movie will happen to give someone 'the sixth sense'.
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