Thriller Synopsis's

One Hour Photo Robin Williams stars in this thriller written and directed by Mark Romanek. Sy Parrish

(Williams) is a middle-aged loner who works as a photograph developer in a supermarket. He has gradually become obsessed with one family, the Yorkins, who regularly come to his counter, making duplicates of each film they bring in to be developed and pinning the photographs to the walls of his apartment. When Sy realises that Will Yorkin (Michael Vartan) is cheating on wife Nina (Connie Nielsen), he steps up his silent interaction with the family, placing evidence of the infidelity in an envelope of photos he has recently developed for young Jake Yorkin (Dylan Smith). Soon however, Parrish reveals his hand, and the Yorkin family realise the full horror of their situation.

The Call

Halle Berry and Abigail Breslin star in this thriller in which a woman races against time to prevent a serial killer from taking another victim. Emergency services telephone operator Jordan Turner (Berry) answers a call from teenager Leah Templeton (Evie Thompson), who is trying to evade the clutches of a murdererous man (Michael Eklund). When their conversation is disconnected, Jordan calls Leah back but the ring of the phone alerts the killer to the girl's whereabouts and he subsequently takes her life. Six months later, Jordan is still struggling to come to terms with what happened but soon finds herself facing a similar situation, with the killer this time after another teenage girl, Casey Welson (Breslin). Can Jordan save Casey from meeting the same fate as the previous caller?

Shutter Island

It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital.

The Lovely Bones

Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.

What they have in common Each synopsis, are based round someone having mental health problems.

The Call and The Lovely bones both involve two young girls who get murdered by older men who are mentally unstable.

They don't give too much away to keep the suspense.

In One Hour Photo they don't give too much away by ending with this statement “Soon however, Parrish reveals his hand, and the Yorkin family realise the full horror of their situation.

In The Call, it ends on a rhetorical question “Can Jordan save Casey from meeting the same fate as the previous caller?” This builds the suspense as it doesn't give away what will happen.

In Shutter Island it has a short synopsis which is very vague but builds suspense without giving too much away, “Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital.” It also doesn't say what type of hospital Ashecliffe is, but we usually connatate Mental hospitals with Thrillers.

In The Lovely Bones it's all based round a young girl who has been murdered but it doesn't say how or why in the synopsis, “Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family” this builds tension and enables the audience to want to know what happened.

All involve pain or emotional harm.

Two out of four state that its a Thriller in the opening sentence, “Halle Berry and Abigail Breslin star in this thriller in which a woman races against time to prevent a serial killer from taking another victim.” And the other film opens, “Robin Williams stars in this thriller written and directed by Mark Romanek.”

Two out of four films also refer to murder – this draws the audience in straight away if their looking for a film about killing, “When their conversation is disconnected, Jordan calls Leah back but the ring of the phone alerts the killer to the girl's whereabouts and he subsequently takes her life.” The other film which mentions murder is The Lovely Bones “Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory.”