Thriller is a type of genre that is quoted to be "characterised by the many moods that give the users heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation and anxiety"
Thrillers are the type of film that keeps the audience on the edge of their seats, as the audience is drawn into the plot that builds toward a large, twisting or shocking climax.
The mystery genre is defined as being "A fictional genre involving mysterious death or crime to be solved". The films of this genre are full of complex stories that involve the use if puzzles and many misleading clues to try and get to the solution of those mysterious deeds and mishappenings. There is always an important and credible motive for committing the crime.
Neo-Noir: this film genre is highly related to mystery and crime genres that was predominantly made during the 1940's and 50's in which they were shot in black and white and featured many femme fatals, doomed heroes, anti heroes, and tough cynical detectives or themes.
These types of genre have many stereotypes and conventions. These conventions can be seen in many classic films such as "The man who wasn't there" released in 2001. It shows the classic chain smoking, hard and rough characters that shows the reality of a crude and hard life.
The mystery and noir genres go hand in hand as they deal both with detective themes and investigating murders in and around the 1950's, with many themes of this time, this is shown in the short series "The spoils before dying" which plays to these conventions by having jazz music, tough characters that investigate a murder. The entire plot is based upon a pianist turned detective investigating a murder in the jazz scene of the 1950's. These are all stereotypes that are portrayed through the mystery/ noir scene.
Mystery and noir pair well with thrillers due to the many changing and climaxing storylines, with similar settings and themes, such as crime events occurring within the settings of the early 1900's.
There are many themes between the genres and many conventions of each of them. These include the many fast paced, suspense and an enigma or puzzle that creates questions for the audience making them think and want answers, drawing them further into the story. This suspense can be easily built up through Noir themes as they tend to have dark, gloomy, foggy areas that create a mysterious and dangerous feeling. This is furthered through a neo noir which adds colour to either show narrative points or to provide a faded/washed out version of the world, creating a bleak or dark view. This is known as chiaroscuro lighting.
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