Why "Thrillers" Thrive

The article about why thrillers thrive was really intriguing. It revealed that human nature needs 'thrills' in our life to feel fufilled, but, because of our 'sheltered civilisation', we must experience them second-hand, through the cinema. When a thriller is well-made, the audience do not just watch, they participate, so they leave the cinema feeling like they have really experienced the events themselves, with a 'subconscious assurance of absolute safety'. Horrors, in contrast, can leave the audience feeling unsafe and can cross 'the line between horrific and horrible', horrible being unacceptable in the public's 'healthy mind', and because thrillers are about what you don't see, not what you see, this is why they will 'thrive' in the cinema.