Filming Locations for 3 films

The Box:
- Boston Public Library - 700 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Castle Hill, Crane Estate - 280 Argilla Road, Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA
- Deer Island, Boston Harbor, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Hough's Neck, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
- Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA
- Kingston, Massachusetts, USA (Hotel)
- Medfield State Hospital - 45 Hospital Road, Medfield, Massachusetts, USA
- Milton, Massachusetts, USA
- NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA
- North Andover, Massachusetts, USA
- Osgood Landing, North Andover, Massachusetts, USA
- Plymouth Bay Inn & Suites - 149 Main Street, Kingston, Massachusetts, USA
- Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
- South Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Turner Hill Golf and Racquet Club, Topsfield Road, Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA
- Virginia, USA

The Others:
- Madrid, Spain
- Oheka Castle - 135 West Gate Drive, Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA
- Santander, Cantabria, Spain

What Lies Beneath:
- Burlington, Vermont, USA
- D.A.R. State Park - 6750 State Route 17 W., Addison, Vermont, USA
- Lake Champlain, New York, USA
- New York, USA
- Playa Vista, California, USA
- Royce Hall - 340 Royce Drive, UCLA, Westwood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Sony Pictures Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
- Spruce Goose Hangar - 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach, California, USA
- University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
- Vermont, USA
- Waterbury, Vermont, USA

10 Locations where a Thriller film could be set

1. Woods

2. Deserted Warehouses/Built up areas

3. Prison

4. Empty Houses

5. Dark Open Spaces

6. Alley ways

7. Large Empty Barns

8. Deserted car parks, or large areas at night

9. Parks

10. Run down hotels/buildings

These are 10 typical locations of a where a Thriller film could be set as they are all open and tend to be dark which makes anyone who is there vulnerable. This is known by the viewers so this is how tension and curiosity is created. The producer is making the audience guess what is going to happen knowing that the audience will expect the worst, this is a good technique to draw the audience in and to keep them wanting to watch the rest of the film.

Male Thriller Actors

1. Harrison Ford - Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), The Conversation (1974), The Fugitive, (1993), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

2.Tom Cruise - Collateral (2004), Minority Report (2002), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), War of the Worlds (2005)

3. Matt Damon - The Departed (2006), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

4. Cary Grant - Notorious (1946), North by Northwest (1959), Charade (1963), The Talk of the Town, (1942)

5. Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction (1994), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), Out of Sight (1998), True Romance (1993)

These male actors are all typical stereotyped men to be a main role in a thriller film as they are all 'macho' looking men who look tough and protective of themselves, and their women. They could either be villain characters or they could be the heroic characters as they are stereotyped quite similarly.

Female Thriller Actors

1. Janet Leigh -Psycho (1960), Touch of Evil (1958),The Manchurian Candidate (1962), The Fog(1980).










2. Grace Kelly - Rear Window (1954), High Noon (1952), Dial M for Murder (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955).



3. Nicole Kidman - To Die For (1995), The Others (2001), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Dogville (2003).



4. Joan Allen - The Bourne Ultimatum (2007),Manhunter (1986), Face/Off (1997), The Bourne Supremacy (2004).



5. Bette Davis - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Dead Ringer (1964) Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), The Watcher in the Woods (1980).

All these actors would have been chosen for thriller films as they are all attractive and vulnerable looking women who stereotypically should 'rely on men' and have little independence. The appearance of these actors is perfect for this stereotype, they all come across as if they would be at home, waiting for the men to come home. A typical stereotype of a woman in this genre of film is how producers bring curiosity and tension to the film, its almost like they use women as prey in thriller films.

10 Key Directors of Thriller Films

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Steven Spielberg
4. James Cameron
5. Quentin Tarantino
6. Christopher Nolan
7. Roman Polanski
8. David Fincher
9. John Carpenter
10. David Cronenberg

Sub-Genres of Thriller Films

action thriller
crime caper thrillers
western thrillers
film-noir thrillers
horror thriller
spy thriller

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