Some more thriller intros

I thought I'd post some more thriller intros which I was inspired by, unfortunately the embedding wasn't working, so I've just given the links to you tube.

http://www.youtube.com/v/h5lbZCGrt4Y&rel=1

This is the intro to a movie called "Ginger Snaps". I think it's very effective because it immediately confronts the audience with some rather unsettling images of teenage girls pretending to kill themselves. The music mixes classical violins with a contemporary beat which underlays the mix of new and old which is continued throughout the sequence. During the sequence, we are introduced to two girls, although it their faces are not always clear until the end of the sequence when we see them in a classroom. The sequence consists mainly of pictures which are zoomed in or out of, or sometimes panned. These are spliced with small clips of the pictures being taken. It's set in a suburban looking house for parts, and a more traditional, sometimes Carrie-Esq house for other parts. Not much about the story is given away, all we find out is that there are two teenage girls who seem to have odd hobbies.





http://www.youtube.com/v/NG-Z6-nFQBo&rel=1

This is the start to a movie called "Swordfish". It's quite interesting because there are no titles or writing throughout the whole intro. We are introduced to a character, although we don't find out his name, we only hear and see him talk about Hollywood and films. He's the only person we see fully in the entire sequence. Mostly the sequence looks as though it's being shot through a hand held camera, however, it switches between this and more professional looking shots, for example the cigar being lit. We don't learn anything about the story or setting, because all we see is a gray wall, which doesn't give anything away. We don't really hear music, but there is a small, quiet classic sounding song in the background.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxgeH8InR9g

"The butterfly effect" is a psychological thriller, in which a man revisits his past through diaries he wrote at different times in his life. In the title sequence, the first thing we see it the chaos theory about how even a flap of a butterfly's wing can cause a tsunami half way across the world, we then see the main character rushing into a room, and writing a note. The room looks like an office, and the note he writes entices the viewer and makes them want to keep watching because they want to know who the "her" he's writing about is, and why he could be dead if someone finds the note. This then leads on to butterfly's flying around and scans of brains during which the title of the movie appears. This is all accompanied by some classical string and woodwind music, which builds suspense.




I chose these examples because they show how varied the thriller genre is, they are all very different movies, which would be put under the thriller genre.