So personally, I hate horror movies. It's mainly the jumping out that scares me, and I'm a huge baby. I end up sitting there covering my eyes and ears the entire time. So you would assume that I wouldn't like any type of scary movie, including Thrillers...you would be wrong my friend! I love the type of movies that have a twist ending, and seem scary throughout, but in the end you find things arent what they seem. Lets see, movies like "Hide and Seek" or "Godsend", and even "The Sixth sense". I feel like M. Night Shyamalan does a great jobs at this genre. Throughout the movie, youre scared, and you have no idea whats really going on and there is always some sort of twist ending.
So the real question here is what seperates a "Thriller" from a "Horror" film? They have some of the same elements, gore, killing,suspense, scary music, yet they arent quite the same. Maybe it's how "jumpy" the movie is. In horror films it's all about making the audience scream..a lot. Perhaps in Thrillers it's more about trying to figure out what's going on in the film while being scared. What really separates the two?
Lets take "The sixth sense" (assuming most everyone has seen it). It has gore, (the boys head who is shot open), suspense throughout the movie, creepy music, and even death. I jumped so many times watching this film, and I still do! ..yet it isn't considered a horror film. If you think about it, its scarier than the original Psycho, and that's in the Horror genre. What are your thoughts?
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Just to compound the confusion--I mean, complicate the issue!--genres are in negotiation on an individual as well as social level, and are also changing over time. Horror films from the 1950s are now hipster kitsch fodder, right? Further, any given text, when it engages with a particular genre, needs to both conform to generic boundaries and also innovate within them (as well as possibly stretch those boundaries out)... So what you're bringing up is a complicated moving target!
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