Typical thriller synopses - by rose spencer

Typical thriller synopses:

The top 6 most popular thrillers in the box office during 2015/16 were:

• The hunger games - mockingjay part 2, a SIFI thriller -  After being chosen as the "Mockingjay" by the rebels fighting against the capital, Katniss Everdeen and District 13 engage in an all-out revolution against the autocratic Capitol to be rid of the hunger games. Hunger games would be considered an enigma because clues and hints are given about what may happen but the audience are left wondering what is going to happen throughout the film.

• The Martian, a SIFI thriller - After an exploratory mission goes wrong, lone astronaut Mark Watney is left for dead on the hostile surface of Mars and must use his scientific ingenuity to homestead an enclosed habitat where he can survive. Meanwhile, the astronauts he left behind realize the severity of his plight and join forces with an international coalition of scientists to launch a rescue mission in defiance of NASA protocol. This film would also be considered an enigma because the audience don't know what will happen to the characters in the film.

• Maze runner: the scorch trials, an action SIFI thriller - Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD's vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all. I would consider this film an enigma as we are left asking questions about the young boys and what will happen to them and why they are in the place they have found themselves.

• Bridge of spies, a history/drama thriller - In this historical drama set during the Cold War, a Brooklyn attorney is tasked with negotiating a prisoner exchange between an American pilot who was shot down over the USSR and a Soviet spy serving a 45-year sentence for espionage against the U.S. this film would come across as an enigma as the audience left watching are left asking questions about the success of the mission.

• The visit - The Visit is a comedic horror film from director M. Night Shyamalan that follows a pair of children whose lives are changed drastically when their mother takes them to visit their grandparents. After seeing their grandparents engaged in activities that they had been kept as a secret to the entire family previously, they are endangered and rendered potentially unable to ever return to their previous existence. This film is an enigma because the audience are left wondering what would make a mother leave her children with such people and why they behave the way they do

• The perfect guy is a drama thriller - In this suspenseful thriller successful lobbyist Leah Vaughn jumps into a new relationship with a stranger shortly after breaking up with her noncommittal boyfriend. But when her ex resurfaces she soon realizes that one of the two men is not who he appears to be. The final film is a equilibrium, everything appears fine at the beginning until certain things begin to reveal them selves, it could also be viewed as an enigma as we can only suspect something is not right until it is then reviled.

The most common thriller narrative's are the enigma theory and the most common sub - genre is the drama or SIFI thriller.

Opening of the visit:

1. the children arrive at the grandparents house and knock at the door
2. they go inside and say good bye to the mother, the granddad takes the bags upstairs
3. the front door closes and the children look around confused everything looks the same but the grandparents are acting in a weird way.
4. they walk into the living room and the grandma starts saying weird things to the children and making strange noises.
5. she grabs one of the children and starts to shake them violently
6. the other child screams and runs upstairs, as the other child screams the granddad runs in shouting stop before chasing after the other child
7. the granddad locks the child in a room and tells the child to stay in the room
8. there is a loud crash and gang from the living room and the child screams, bursting into tears.
9. everything goes silent the grandma comes upstairs and gets the other child and tells them everything ok asking if the children wanted to make cookies
10. the children walk with the grandma into the kitchen looking very confused but carry on to make cookies