1. Psychological Thriller Characteristics
This genre often incorporates elements from the mystery and drama genre in addition to the typical traits of the thriller genre.

2. Conflicts
The suspense created often comes from two or more characters preying upon one another's minds
either by playing deceptive games with the other or by merely trying to demolish the other's mental state.
Sometimes the suspense comes from within one solitary character where characters must resolve conflicts with their own minds.
Usually, this conflict is an effort to understand something that has happened to them. These conflicts are made more vivid with physical expressions of the conflict in the means of either physical manifestations, or physical torsions of the characters at play.

3. Literary Devices and Techniques
Stream of consciousness – written by the character's thought processes.
Done using visuals or word description
First-person narrative - story is narrated by one or more of the characters ("I“).
This makes the reader more involved
Back-story - the history behind the situation
what the character's motivations are and how his past has shaped his current cognitive perceptions.

4. Themes Reality – The quality of being real.
Perception – A person's own interpretation of the world around him through his senses.
Mind – The human consciousness; the location for personality, thought, reason, memory, intelligence and emotion.
Existence/Purpose - The object for which something exists; an aim or a goal humans strive towards to understand their reason for existence.
Identity - The definition of one's self.
Death - The cessation of life.

5. Philosophical Issues
Metaphysics - tries to explain the world and define reality, a task that psychological thrillers try to do themselves.
Ethics - The investigation of what is right and what is wrong.

6. Examples Darren Aronofsky – Director of Pi and Requiem for a Dream
David Fincher – Director of Se7en and Fight Club.
Alfred Hitchcock – Director of Psycho
Richard Kelly – Director of Donnie Darko.
Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight and Memento
M. Night Shyamalan – Director of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.

7. Videos
Flight Club
Donnie Darko
Momento

8. Horror Movies
Movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear and terror from viewers.
Their plots frequently involve themes of death, the supernatural, or mental illness.
Many horror movies also include a central villain.
Horror films have been dismissed as violent, low budget B movies and exploitation films.