Room 1408 Poster Analysis

The mise en scene is quite subtle for the psychological thriller genre as the props are a normal hotel room, and as far as can be seen, nothing is out of the ordinary. The low key lighting at the bottom of the poster makes the audience relate the darkness with the title of the film, ‘1408’. The hotel bed and cabinets are in the neutral lighting as it shows them to be inconspicuous. Overall, the mise en scene is very unconventional and subtle to the psychological thriller genre.

The title of ‘1408’ is a strange title for the psychological thriller genre as it is a ‘stone’ type font and so is not very generic and thrilling.

Firstly the audience’s attention is caught by the red writing at the top of the page and at the start of the figure of Z that the audience’s eyes follow. This also makes the audiences eyes drawn to the slogan of the film, ‘some rooms are locked for a reason’, which is very stereotypical of the thriller genre, which entices the audience to the film. The figure of Z then follows the line down to the hotel room which sets the setting for the film. As the audience continue to follow Z, they see the title ‘1408’ that is surrounded by the low key lighting at the bottom of the room to show that 1408 is at the depths of darkness and so this is portrayed to the audience. The main characters names are also at the bottom of the Z so that the audience recognise the famous names and so are more likely to be drawn to the film. In the terminal area of the film is another slogan and logo which leaves the audience with this in their mind as they last look at the poster.