how my thriller meets thriller conventions

•Thrillers often take place wholly or partly in exotic settings such as foreign cities, deserts, polar regions, or high seas.

- My thriller is based in and around the area of a friends house. this challenges the convention because the characters should not be in any danger there.
•The heroes in most thrillers are frequently "hard men" accustomed to danger. However, they may also be ordinary citizens drawn into danger by accident. 

- My characters are ordinary teenagers drawn into danger by a sinister school peer and his satanic friend.
•Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened.

- My story does not overlap with a mystery but in the end one of the characters does thwart the plans of the sinister pair  to save himself.
•Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the overthrow of governments.
- My thriller only effects a handful of teenagers for one night which challenges this convention but also makes it more relatable to my target audience.

•Jeopardy and violent confrontations are standard plot elements. While a mystery climaxes when the mystery is solved, a thriller climaxes when the hero finally defeats the villain, saving his own life and often the lives of others.

- My thriller does contain Violent and gory confrontations between the victims and the murderers.
•In thrillers influenced by film noir and tragedy, the compromised hero is often killed in the process.

- The most likely hero is killed in a rather pathetic way while trying to play up to the part of hero.