Planning: Techno and Horror Thrillers

Techno Thrillers

Techno-thrillers are a hybrid of genres, these genres include Action, Thriller and Science Fiction. Techno-thrillers focus strongly on details, especially on the technology, which is frequently of military origin. Techno-thrillers blur smoothly into the category of hard science fiction; the defining characteristics of techno-thriller are an emphasis on real-world or possible near future technology. The most well known Techno Thriller author is called Dan brown, he has made films such as the "the lost symbol".

The Film that I will be talking about is called "IRobot":

IRobot was directed by Alex Proyas and is one of the most well known Science Fiction thrillers in its generation. The summary of the film goes as follows; "t is the year 2035. Everybody in the world relies on a huge system of robots, which are programmed specifically to help humans and not harm them in any way. But one person does not think that robots are helpful. Chicago homicide detective Del Spooner. but one day, he received a call from the United States Robotics (USR) about a recent death of renowned robot scientist Dr. Alfred J. Laning. Spooner immediately blamed this incident on robots without justifiable reason or proof. Then, he begins his investigation on Lanning's death, only to discover Sonny, a "unique" robot. What Spooner does not realize, is that something is about to happen. Something that is beyond even spooner's wildest dreams".

Horror Thrillers
Horror films usually involve an antagonist who is often portrayed as the "monster". This monster in different genres of thrillers can either be an actual monster or a psycho on the run for blood. The reason why people love to watch horrors is because they love to watch people die. In this case, every horror movie in the past always had stereotypical characters that end up dying in the same order. It goes from the black guy first, the lustful women second, the big guy of the group and finally the "final girl". The final girl is seen as innocent and smart showing how they are vulnerable, However, every time one of their friend dies, the final girl gets mentally stronger and stronger. Horror thrillers have 3 main camera shots, The POV to get the viewer to join in on the action or see what they see, cut away shots to hide the actions of the killer or cut in shots to actually show the action clearly.