Every different genre of film and media tend to set its locations to help immerse its audience. Within a thriller genre film, this tends to be places of contrasts or changing environments. This may differ for the sub genre but they tend to be either city-scapes with large high rise buildings to create the realistic feel of threat and make the audience feel they may be at risk in the real world.
Many different sub genres of thriller tend to go toward the horror route, including abandoned houses, forests and dark mysterious outside areas. This is because each of these places creates tension and suspense of the audience. Due to their abandonedness they are seen to be haunted and the enigma of why they are abandoned starts to circulate in the audiences mind.
Dark forests tend to be used for similar reasons, this is because many local areas, especially in the UK, have forests or woods that are close by, this furthers the realism of something "lurking in the woods" that seems to never end and the dark dense area provides a claustrophobic atmosphere in which the viewer feels they cannot escape.
There are also many regularly seen outdoor areas that can be made eerie or have a tension building atmosphere, these could be alley ways or tight paths between houses, poorly lit countryside paths such as bridleways and public pathways, that suggest something thrilling is about to happen giving a sudden change of emotions.
These locations all create an eerie feeling within the viewer as they know absolutely nothing about what seems like a normal area. due to this a primal nervousness creates the feeling that something is about to happen and that unknown of weather it is or isn't, is what creates that suspense of the thriller genre through locations
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