The conventions of thriller genre include the plot lines, characters and techniques. In addition to those sound and editing, e.g. quick cuts and camera angle changes, music that gives tension and appropriately used when needed. This can be to do with lighting, especially the use of shadow, mirrors and stairs are also conventions of thriller movies.
Although the film "phonebooth" is in particular a thriller which does not play to the conventions, it avoids darkness and shadow etc. the one way to link it to the standard conventions is that the audience hears and views the the story from the killers point of view.
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When you say the conventions of thrillers include plot lines, characters, etc - you need to give specific examples of these (e.g for character, the 'femme fatale'), as ALL film genres have different types of plts etc as their conventions
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