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.