"Thriller elements" refers to the exciting and suspenseful features or aspects found in a story, movie, or book that keeps the audience on edge and wanting to know what will happen next. Full definition
There are some horror / thriller elements in the movie, but it's ultimately a portrayal of how awful people can be to one another. (thewolfmancometh.com)
And many of the more current «disaster films» have been overshadowed by action - thriller elements in the plots. (filmsite.org)
Written by Coogler and Joe Robert Cole (a veteran of Marvel Studios» bygone in - house writers program), Black Panther combines many of the best elements of MCU films past, including: the Shakespearean royal family drama of the Thor movies, the political thriller elements of Civil War and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and even the sci - fi tech aspects of the Iron Man films. (screenrant.com)