Thriller Directors

David Lynch 

  David Lynch is a film writer producer and Director. He's especially well known for his stylized cinematography and recognizable themes and motifs that recur in many of his films. Most significant of these themes is his use of surrealism and dreams or dreamlike quality.

 Some of his most significant films include:

• Erasorhead
• Blue Velvet 
• Twin Peaks
• The Elephant Man
• Mulholland Drive 

Lynch has a lot of stylistic trade marks including the use of slow motion during violent scenes, strobe lighting, reference to French culture and close up shots of eyes. 

Although not all of his films are thrillers, he borrows a lot of thriller conventions in his other films. All his work is extremely eclectic and surrealist.

Martin Scorcese

  Martin Scorcese is a film producer, director, writer, actor and editor. He has a number of cinematic trademarks including the use of tracking shots, the most famous of these in Goodfellas in the Copacabana scene. As well as trademarks such as freezeframes, use of music by the Rolling Stones, strong religious symbolism and having stories begin with happenings in the past, his most significant is very real and graphic vilence.  Demonstrating this best would be the untimate scene in Taxi Driver. He often collaborates with the actors Robert De Niro, Leonardo Dicaprio and Joe Pesci.

  Some of his most significant films include:

• Taxi Driver
• Goodfellas
• Shutter Island
• The Departed
• Casino