She tells him that he was hospitalized after sustaining a concussion. He soon finds Lily at his bedside in the hospital near his home in Los Angeles. The room begins to shake violently and the interior cracks and explodes as water fills the room, pulling Enslin under the surface.Įnslin wakes up on the beach, the result of an earlier surfing accident that is depicted earlier in the film when he became unconscious. As a panicked Enslin watches this conversation end, the doppelgänger looks at him directly and winks. However, his laptop starts working again and he hears Lily calling out to him by video chat, but a doppelgänger of him hijacks the conversation, urging Lily to come the hotel immediately and enter room 1408. All the while the room temperature drops, eventually to subzero temperatures. He manages to contact his estranged wife Lily by video chat, but the conversation ends abruptly when the sprinkler system shorts out his laptop.
HORROR MOVIE ROOM 1408 THEORIES FREE
He makes several attempts to free himself from the room such as crawling through the air vents, where he is seen being chased by a mummified body (one of 1408's earlier victims), or trying to crawl outside on the ledge to the next room, but all end in failure. As I am, you will be", a quote attributed to the Roman poet Horace regarding death. Among one of these strange visions is a face-to-face encounter with his own father, who tells him, "As I was, you are. He still manages to unlock the door, but then the doorknob falls off, trapping him inside 1408.Įnslin begins to see and hear things, including visions of his daughter's time in the hospital shortly before her death, but he initially dismisses them as hallucinations. Wishing to go to a hospital, Enslin attempts to leave the room however his key breaks off in the door. His hearing quickly returns and he bandages his hand using a bandana from his bag. He rushes to the bathroom to wash the wound in the sink, but the water suddenly becomes boiling hot and damages his wound even further. Suddenly, Enslin is unable to hear anything, apart from a tinnitus-like ringing in his ears, and opens the window to check his hearing the window slams down, cutting a large gash in the top of his hand.
When he turns the clock off the display flickers and changes to read "60:00", then starts counting down from 60 minutes. Later, Enslin is startled again as the clock radio begins to play the same song. As he examines the room, the radio suddenly starts blaring "We've Only Just Begun" by The Carpenters, initially thinking it is just a gag cooked up by Olin.
Once inside the room, Enslin pulls out his mini cassette recorder and dictates on the un-remarkability of room 1408.
The manager gives him the key, warning him that "it's an evil fucking room". Enslin accepts the documents and the cognac but insists on staying in the room, frustrating Olin.
HORROR MOVIE ROOM 1408 THEORIES UPGRADE
Olin offers Enslin an upgrade to the penthouse suite, access to documents regarding the deaths in 1408, and an $800 bottle of cognac if Enslin would abandon his plan to stay at 1408. However, after being informed by Enslin's agent, Sam Farrell, that the Fair Housing Act requires hotels to rent unoccupied rooms, the Dolphin reluctantly reserves room 1408 for Enslin.Īrriving at the Dolphin, Enslin is pulled aside by the hotel's manager, Gerald Olin, who warns him that no one has lasted more than an hour in 1408. Viewing this as a challenge, Enslin attempts to book a reservation for Room 1408, but the hotel will not rent him the room. After his latest book, he receives an anonymous postcard of the Hotel Dolphin in New York City bearing the message "don't enter 1408". Mike Enslin is a skeptic and author who writes books confirming and rating supernatural vacation spots (such as haunted inns) despite his knowing they are fake after the death of his daughter Katie. In 1408, Mike Enslin, played by John Cusack, rents a room at a luxurious Manhattan hotel, only to find that all of the horrible stories he has heard about the room are absolutely true. Both films feature writers who suffer from addiction ( The Shinings Jack Torrance was an alcoholic and Mike Enslin from 1408 smokes cigarettes) both elect to stay inside a mysterious hotel with a grim and violent history both are tormented by ghosts from the past, as well as the sins of their own past. The central plot of 1408 is reminiscent of one of King's previous works, the 1977 novel The Shining, which was later adapted into a film in 1980 by Stanley Kubrick. The film is based on the short story "1408" by famed horror novelist Stephen King, which first appeared in King's 1999 audio book Blood and Smoke. Produced by Dimension Films, it was released theatrically on June 22nd, 2007. Kelly Dennis Antonia Kalmacoff Lorenzo di Bonaventura Jake Myers Richard Saperstein Jeremy Stecklerġ408 is a 2007 horror film directed by Mikael Håfström. Matt Greenberg Scott Alexander Larry Karaszewski Stephen King
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