Thriller Directors

These are some of the best directors in the modern Thriller industry. Quentin Tarantino

Born: March 27th 19963

Films: "Pul Fiction (1994)" "Reservoir Dogs (1992)"

Quentin Tarantino has a very unigue stly of films, which use a range of different techniques. One aspect of film making that makes Tarantino's thriller movies have more of a thrill, is the way he uses his music and humour. A lot of his movies have very churpy or catchy songs, that don't really connotate a scary mood, so when something devasting or out of the oridinary does happen, it creates a huge juxtaposition, which shocks the audience. The same happens with his sense of movie, according to Tarantino, each of his movies has a different stlye of humour, which makes the audience laugh when they shouldn't be, this creates a similar contrast between the humourous, and the not funny parts of the movies, to the way the music works.

The way he uses his characters also adds to the thrills, he makes the audience become very attatched to the characters, by using a lot of diologue. This means that if a significant character dies, the audience will smpathise for them more. Because of the large amount of diologue, the scenes are somtimes quite long, which builds up a lot of tension.

David Fincher

Born: August 28th 1962

Films: "Fight Club (1999)" "Se7en (1995)"

David Fincher's thrillers often tend to have a lot of twists in them, this makes the thrills very unexpected, for example both of the films above have major twists that aren't very obvious until the end of the movie.

Fincher also0 tends to work with a lot of the same actors in different projects he has worked on. This is probably why all of his movies have such talented acting skills demonstrated, because the actors and himself are a lot more comfortable with each other. This makes his films a lot more believable and atmospheric.

Ridley Scott

Born: November 30th 1937

Films: "Hannibal (2001)" "Alien (1979)"

Scott, similarly to Tarantino, often has a lot of slow paced scenes building up to the action, films such as 'Alien' and 'Blade Runner' are prime examples. This creates a lot of tension and keeps the audience on the edge of their seats, so that when something thrilling does happen, it has more of a shocking effect on them. Ridley Scott also uses his sound in this way, but not the actual music, the diegetic sound. Such as in 'Alien' there are lots of hisssing pipes and beeping computers, this makes the scenes appear very hectic and creates a suspensfull build up to each thrill.