Thriller opening evaluations

Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
We particularly liked this opening because of the music used to create suspense and tension. Bernard Herrman did the score for this film, he has also wrote music for other thrillers such as 'Taxi Driver', 'Vertigo' and even the 'twilight zone'.




Dirty Harry - Don Seigel (1971)




This is a very good Thriller opening, however, not really the kind of thing we're aiming for, we did however analyse it because it has been very influential to thrillers in the movie world since it was made.

Bullitt - Peter Yates (1968)




This is again not something we would head towards producing but, like Dirty Harry it has been a great cinematic influence.


Mulholland Drive - David Lynch (2001)



This is a perfect example of a thriller, specific for our sequence as it includes many of the same elements.. The music in this piece is definately of the same type that we would like to accompany our piece; nothing too upbeat, eerie yet threatening. The shots have been very influential to our piece -shots from behind the car, of the headlights..etc- we will however keep our piece from looking too similar to this, we will make sure it has its own originality.