tommy lee jones acted in the 1993 thriller film men in black
for alfred hitchcock a director very associated with the genre he proclaimed that the whodunnit generated the kind of curiosity that is void of emotion and emotion is essential ingredient of suspense and thus for hitchcock  mystery is seldom suspenseful in their discussions on the political thriller pablo castrillo and pablo echart stated in 2015 that the concept of a thriller as an overarching broad category is traditionally unclear due to the varied definitions between authors with its boundaries often blurred overlapped and hybridized with other genres
i extra terrestrial intelligence contains the line three men in black said dont report this