Conventions in Films - Psychological Thrillers

Silence of the Lambs

Main factors in the film

• Murder


• Police


• Mental Health problems


• Hatred towards women


• Sexual Perversity

American Psycho

• Murder


• Sexual Perversity


• Hatred of women


• Police


• Mental Health problems

The Sixth Sense

• Suicide


• Psychology


• Supernatural


• Mental health problems


• Hauntings

The Butterfly Effect

• Mental Health problems


• Murder


• Abuse


• Time travel

What Lies Beneath

• Murder


• Supernatural


• Mystery


• Hauntings


• Mental Health problems

Gothika

• Psychology


• Violence/Torture


• Police


• Murder

The main conventions according to this research are murder, police, mental health problems and supernatural events.