Iconic Sounds Connected With The Genre

                    The sound of someone getting 
                              closer and louder...
 
   the drip drip drip of a tap...
               
                                                        or the tap tap tap of a door knocking..

• Screaming is used in some situations depending on what type of thriller it is. For a psychological thriller, it is not used too often but may happen sometimes. 
• Dark creepy music, with dramatic changes in dynamics and pace to create suspense and make people feel uneasy.
• There is often a crow crowing, which may foreshadow an up coming death/ deaths. 
• In an action/thriller film, there is normally deep droning music to create suspense, and also there is normally and gradual build up of something about to happen e,g. if a train was about to come the sound of the train wouldn’t just start straight away, the sound of it would start very faintly and gradually get louder.
• Mainly in horror/thriller films, if the killer does speak, it tends to be a very deep low voice, with a constant creepy, angry tone mixed into it, to make the audience uneasy and more scared.
• In any thriller or sub-genre related to thriller films, the music being used would usually be deep, eerie and have a droning effect to it or, it would be a song being used which would have been taken from a rock or heavy metal band, loads of speedy guitar solo’s to match the action and make the scene more interesting for the audience.

For example, here are some infamous pieces of music associated with sub-genre's of thrillers: