Sub-Genre - Sci-Fi Thrillers

Sub-Genre

Sci-Fi Thrillers

Most thrillers have the combination of most other genres including horror, conspiracy, and psychological tricks used to increase tension. Combinations are very diverse, including Sci-Fi Thrillers (Science Fiction Thrillers)

In Sci-Fi Thrillers it's usually set in the future, or in a historical past that denies facts of known information of history. Also they can have settings from outer space involving Aliens. Sci-Fi Thrillers will include stories that involve technology or scientific rules (e.g. time travel), discovery, new technology (e.g. Robots) or of new and different political or social systems.

An example of a Sci-Fi Thriller is Alien (1979)


When you watch the trailer immediately you know its a Sci-Fi Thriller as it captures the audiences attention from the start and has a setting with spaceships and aliens. There includes quickly moving shots, which makes the audience watch carefully (engaging), flashing lights and dark colours (Black and Green), These also put the audience on the edge and lets them know its going to be a scary film. Also by the way it splits up its shots going into the short sentences (where there's information about the film and persuading lyrics), they use bold white writing with a bold green outline surrounded by a black background, this makes the font stand out. The black can signify the darkness/space, the green can signify the aliens.

Alien is a perfect example of a Sci-Fi Thriller because of all the generic conventions it includes. It is very similar to the Thriller genre because of the way it creates suspense and tension! Shots used within the trailer are close up shots, where you can see the details of the characters expressions, and it shows the important objects used at the time (e.g. The spaceship). They also use long shot where you can see the setting of where they are.