When he sees her, however, he takes her in his arms and promises her, as she is very afraid, that she will no longer be left alone. Here he hears the voice of his dead daughter, which he initially dismisses as an imagination. He goes to the post office to post the finished story, but there the craftsmen in the counter room tear down the whole room, and Mike is horrified to find that he is still in room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel, which is now completely his burnt out presents. He experiences some déjà-vus in the form of suddenly appearing people who committed suicide in room 1408 or worked in the hotel, but he suppresses them. He writes down his experiences in the room after he has been released from the hospital. His wife Lily came to him from New York to visit him in the hospital. It appears that what happened in the hotel room was just a dream while he was unconscious. Mike appears to drown and then, as at the beginning of the plot, wakes up on a beach where he once had a surfing accident. An attempt to get into the neighboring room through the window also fails, because room 1408 suddenly has the only window on this house wall in a mysterious way.Īfter a few more frightening incidents in the room, the room becomes inexplicably flooded with water. He tries to escape from the room, but a broken key and blocking, very stable doors keep him from leaving the room. It becomes more and more clear to him that through his books and his manner he has robbed many people of the hope of an afterlife. In flashbacks, which he himself experienced in the room, we learn that Mike's daughter died of a serious illness, which also broke up his marriage to his wife Lily. Among other things, he meets his demented father and dead daughter in the room. Little by little, however, strange incidents pile up, confronting Mike with his own deepest fears. Even when the clock radio suddenly shows a countdown that gives him exactly one hour, he still believes it was all just a bad joke. Mike thinks it's a joke to stir up fear in him.
The impression intensifies when the radio begins to play by itself next to the bed. He gets the first indication that something is wrong after looking out the window for a while and looking back to see that the bed he was using before has been freshly made and that the bathroom is another completely unused one Makes the impression as if a maid had cleaned everything up in the blink of an eye. Nothing to indicate a particularly horrific room. Flower wallpaper, an old closet, an antique bathroom, a broken air conditioner. He himself believes the manager's warnings are not should be taken seriously and should only increase fear.Īt first, room 1408 seems so normal and ordinary that Mike jokingly speaks of the "banality of evil" on his dictation machine.
Despite the warning that no guest who has ever moved into this room has survived there longer than an hour, and Olin only has the room cleaned under strict security precautions, Mike moves into room 1408. The hotel manager Gerald Olin tries to talk him out of this. As part of his research for another book he wants of the 1408 Dolphin Hotel in New York City to stay, where already 56 hotel guests to death came. After the death of his daughter Katie, he wrote several books about supposedly supernatural phenomena and refuted them. The writer Mike Enslin lives separately from his wife Lily. 1.1 Alternative ending (Director's Cut).The screenplay by Scott Alexander, Matt Greenberg and Larry Karaszewski is based on the short story 1408 by Stephen King from his anthology In the Cabinet of Death. Zimmer 1408 (Original title: 1408 ) is an American horror film / mystery thriller directed by Mikael Håfström from 2007.
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