Characteristics of Psychological ThrillersCharacters and setting/locations.

Characters

Typical characters consist of:q convicts

q criminals

q stalkers

q assassins

q innocent victims - on the run

q prison inmates

q menaced women - example sleeping with the enemy.

q Characters with dark pasts

q psychotic individuals

q terrorists

q cops or police

q escaped convicts

q people in a twisted relationship

q fugitives

q private eyes

q drifters

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Settings/ locations

Some of the main settings you will see in psychological are usually big houses, schools, cities, hospitals and more. These settings create realism for the target audience which helps them relate to the film as they could potentially live or have been in one of the settings. By using these settings, it increases the audiences as they are then able to picture themselves in these positions.

An example would be in Donnie Darko