Famous Directors and history of Thrillers

The history of Thrillers

Using http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/timeline/ I have created a timeline showing the release of Thriller films over the years.

This timeline is also a good example of the history of Thrillers.

http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/69797/History-of-the-Thriller-genre/#vars!date=1927-10-13_04:27:11!

The first ever Thriller is argued by many as 1927's The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog. This film was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and was his second film that he received a directors credit after 1925's "The Pleasure Garden".

Throughout the years, Thriller has developed and changed in many ways. A most notable Thriller is 1960's Psycho (regarded as one of Alfred Hitchcock's best films). Throughout the years, the Thriller genre was also graced with films like 1976's Taxi Driver that increased the violence in Thrillers.

By the 1990s, Thrillers saw a massive increase in quantity and quality as the "twist" became a massive staple in Thrillers (even though it was popular in the 1960s with films like Psycho). These twists presented themselves in films like 1991's The Silence Of the Lambs, 1995's Seven, 1999's Fight Club and The Sixth Sense (of the same year).

By the 2000s and 2010s, the "twist" was further developed upon in 2000's Memento, 2006's Children of Men, 2007's No Country For Old Men, 2008's The Dark Knight and 2010's Shutter Island.




Famous directors of Thrillers include Alfred Hitchcock (North By Northwest 1959, Psycho 1960), Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, 1976, Shutter Island, 2010), Christopher Nolan (Memento 2000, The Dark Knight 2008 ), Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs 1992, Pulp Fiction 1994), David Fincher (Seven 1995, Fight Club 1999, Gone Girl 2014), M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense 1999, Unbreakable 2000), Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men 2006, Gravity 2013)