Researching Thriller Films

Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect is about Evan Treborn. As a boy, He suffered from memory black outs, where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Everyone thinks he fakes them to get out of trouble. He keeps a diary of his black out since the age of seven. But when he reads one of his diaries, he is taken back in time to his black out- with the freedom to change what happened in his past, he changes his future. Any which way he turns of tries to put right wrongs, he always hurts people or ends up unhappy.
It includes the codes and conventions:

·         Suspense

·         Uncertainty

·         Anxiety

·         Mysterious Situation

·         Plot Twister

·         Characters with Dark pasts

·         Innocent Victims

·         Suspicious Individuals

·         Loss of Memory

·         Mistaken Identity

Falling Down

Falling Down is about William, also known as D-FENS. William just wants to get home to see his daughter for her birthday. Unfortunately, nothing is going right for him. First, there’s a traffic jam, then the unhelpful shopkeeper and soon, William begins to crack and starts fighting everyday injustices he encounters on the way home. He acquires a few weapons and smashed up the shopkeepers shop and demands a burger that looks like the one in the picture at gunpoint. His actions attract a retiring officer, he tries to stop him.
It includes the codes and conventions:

·         Intense excitement

·         Dangerous situations

·         Down on their luck losers

·         Suspicious individuals

·         Crime

Identity

Identity is about Malcom Rivers who has been convicted as the perpetrator of several murders and is about to be sentenced to death. However, his lawyers and psychiatrist claim that Malcom is insane. This new evidence results to a meeting with the prosecutors to judge the verdict. Meanwhile, ten strangers are stranded at a desolate Nevada Hotel during a nasty rainstorm, when they realise they are being killed off one by one. We soon realise that the ten strangers are in fact Malcoms alter egos and he is suffering from schizophrenia. His personalities fight for survival from the mysterious murder personality, but which one will make it out alive?
It includes the codes and conventions:

·         Uncertainty

·         Suspense

·         Dangerous Situation

·         Plot Twister

·         Woman in Danger

·         Murder Mystery

·         Assassins

·         Innocent Victims

·         Characters with Dark Pasts

·         Prison inmates

·         Crime

·         Being Chased

·         Mistaken Identity