From Dawn till Dusk

'From Dawn till Dusk' is a film directed by Quentin Tarrintino and stars him and George Clooney as two brothers and professional thieves. The plot goes on to lead the film into more of a horror as it involves vampires and too much gore for it to be a thriller. However the opening scene is set in a road side shop in the middle of the desert. This place is made out to be very unglamorous, which is exactly what gives it a thriller edge. This is done by the costumes of the characters, who supposedly live there, all of which are old and drab looking. The shop itself is more of a shack and is in an awful state in this desolate location. This image created, in comparison with normal society, looks very backward and almost menacing in the way that its the only place for miles around, if anything was to happen to anyone nobody would ever know. We have taken some of the features from this, such as the dull lighting and used them within our thriller opening to give it a desolate and menacing look.

1408

Like Silence of the Lambs and Heavenly Creatures, 1408 is not actually a thriller, however it features characteristics of a thriller. The basic plot is that there is a writer who travels around supposedly haunted hotels and stays the night in the to prove that they are not haunted. This eventually escalades into him recieving a postcard inviting him to the Dolphin Hotel in New York, where he comes across a room which truly is haunted, in which he loses his mind. The films genre is more towards horror, however the clsoe up shots of the writer cause confusion and build up suspence in the audience's mind because they cannot be sure of what is coming next. The most fitting part of this film into the mise-en-scene of a thriller is the setting of it, the majority of the film is shot in one hotel room where the character is completely isolated from everyone and everything. This mise en scene connotes the feeling of entrapment that we are trying to create in our thriller. It is for these reasons we have included fast paced editing, similar to that of 1408, to cause confusion within the audience and a small isolated place, the freezer, to create the feeling of entrapment.