In 'No Country for Old Men' the representation of the actual killer is almost sickening, a man not phased my the extreme acts of violence he commits throughout the thriller. However we are not shown every detail, the audience knows what happening but some bits are not shown. For example the part where we do no see the victim but just the puddle of blood as the killer lifts up his legs. In a sense this makes it more haunting. The extremes a man will go for for money.
In this particular scene aswell just shows the superiority of the killer and what he was capable of. As an audience we know this but the man behind the counter has no clue, this make the scene even more tense.
However 'Phonebooth' is completely different, it isn't your typical thriller. The film is based in once location and one only, a busy street in the centre of a city, in a phonebooth in broad daylight. Not your particular conventions but the way this works is it plays with your mind, we don't know who the killer is and the fact we only hear his voice makes it more haunting. However the audience begins to sympathise with the victim although the killer believes he deserves this. There isn't any gory killings, the killer doesn't do a lot but its the fact we don't know what he's going to do or where he is until the nearer the end. The fact the right killer is not caught in the end only leaves the audience on a cliff hanger.
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