Thriller Opening Props

-        Keys – Holly’s way in and out of the house, when these go missing and she is locked in we know she is trapped and in danger

-        Knives – used to cut the cake so initially just a normal, everyday item. But Holly chooses to use it as a weapon when she is worried, to find her choice of protection has gone, and so have all the other knives

-        Cake

-        Mobile phone – used to indicate the presence of the intruder in the bedroom, when we discover it is in fact not this phone which is ringing, but somebody else’s (and Holly is supposed to be home alone)