Titles in thriller films set the theme of the feature you are about to watch. To start, most thrillers have a lot of either dark imagery, dark colours, or both. An example of using dark imagery without actually using any dark colours would be 2013's "Hannibal". The title doesn't have any dark colours at all, but rather showcases an animated scene of faces being constructed in blood-red liquid, resembling wine. The fluid showcased here most likely resembles Chianti, a Tuscany wine which Hannibal Lecter has said to drink while dining on cooked pieces of human flesh. Visuals aside, a lot of the horror-core music make our senses tingle and stand on edge, setting the theme to be a thriller.
Contrasting this would have to be the use of dark colours over dark imagery, from a 1990's story show "Are You Afraid of the Dark?", creating unsettling imagery with very dark colours, giving almost blue silhouettes to the objects around inside. In addition with unsettling sound effects and music, the scene represents childhood memories in the darkest light, assuming to make everything mundane as creepy as possible.
Not all thrillers however have to convey horror themes behind them. Some can even make the audience feel another emotion that commonly comes from thrillers: Panic and paranoia. 2010's "Rubicon" Conveys this message almost perfectly with it's quick swipes of the camera following a yellow highlighter joining up pieces of information together with an intention of feeling paranoid with each swipe of the highlighter. The brass instruments along with the computer-generated sound effects makes this opening similar to a bond film, which usually contains themes of spying and thriller too.
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