In Alfred Hitchcock's Why Thrillers Thrive, he explains his theory of why they survive and are popular in the film business. He highlights that most people go to the cinema to see thrillers due to feeling safe and content watching the film knowing that they are safe where they are but while they watch the safety of others being contradicted on the screen.
He also points out that our subconscious plays a great deal in the emotion we go through during thrillers as it makes us aware that we are safe in the place we are but from watching the screen we also experience emotions in the film.
Furthermore, he talks about how when you watch stunts etc on screen you have no real realization of how the scene actually looks in real life. Hitchcock continues on and explains how many of us watching perceive the danger the hero is in and that we presume that it must be grave danger and this is another way a thriller thrives as the events taking place in them are realistic.
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