Subgenres and audience

Subgenres and audience

Subgenre – A genre within a genre

• Religious thriller
• Political thriller
• Psychological thriller
• Noir thriller
• Erotic thriller
• Supernatural thriller
• Dystopian thriller

Hybrid – genre mixing

• Action thriller
• Romantic thriller
• Crime thriller
• Sci-fi thriller

Audience categorising

Subgenres

Religious thriller (End of days

The religious thriller is aimed at middle aged men with a high level of religious education; the audience should also be quite religious.

Political thriller (Z)

A political is aimed at both middle aged to elderly men and women with a high level of education and an interest in the news.

Psychological thriller (Se7en)

Psychological thrillers are aimed at intellectual teenagers (male or female) who are interested in the way the mind works.

Noir thriller (Sunset boulevard)

Noir thrillers are aimed at older teenaged to middle aged men who enjoy classic ‘old’ black and white films.

Erotic thriller

Erotic thrillers are aimed at middle aged women and men (they are more likely to be aimed at men) without children.

Supernatural thriller

Supernatural thrillers are aimed at young adults, both men and women, who are intellectual and are interested in things that are ‘out of this world’.

Dystopian thriller

Dystopian thrillers are aimed at teenagers, both men and women, who enjoy books e.g. fairytales but with a twist in the storyline. The target audience are also intellectual.

Hybrids

Action thriller

Action thrillers are mainly aimed at men but women can still enjoy watching them. They’re aimed at teenaged and middle aged men, who like to be involved in action, this audience would either be teenagers or have teenaged children.

Romantic thriller

Romantic thrillers are aimed at middle aged and/or teenaged women. The audience doesn’t have to be intellectual, but they have a true understanding of love.

Crime thriller

Crime thrillers are aimed at middle aged men who like to know who commited a crime before the detective/police officer. The audience has children but like to be alone.

Sci-fi thriller

Sci-fi thrillers are aimed at intellectual middle aged or teenaged men. They live alone and are interested in what will happen in the future (aliens or new technological advances).