This is an older movie, made in 2007, released same year
As a lover of all things unknown and fascinated since childhood about the unknown friends usually tell me a good movie to watch, I was told a few nights ago “Watch 1408, you will like it” Thinking nothing about it I downloaded it and forgot about it.
Today was Friday, the day I dislike, was a bit sore, ok in agony, so took some medication, headed to bed, turned on my bedroom laptop thinking what to watch and decided “1408” it is.
The movie is set around a character Mike Enslin, he lost his Daughter and split up with his wife and made his passion looking into the unknown, ghosts, who stays over night in Haunted hotels and houses etc, the movie starts with him trying a few, slow start. The part is played by an actor I do like, John Cusack and also Samuel L. Jackson is in the movie also, Mike gets lots of flyers for hotels to visit as he is a writer about this subject, in an envelope is the picture above “Do not enter room 1408” He calls to book the room, no go, they won’t rent it to him, ever
Through some Hollywood fictitious rule he manages to book the room through his manger, the Hotel is The Dolphin, a hotel on Lexington Avenue in New York City, Mike enters and is promptly approached by the manger, Gerald Olin (Samuel L. Jackson) who moves heaven and earth to persuade Mike to NOT sleep overnight in room 1408. Gerald warns Mike and shows him old newspaper files and pictures of over 50 people who have died in that room, the Hotel do not advertise the room, but Mike gets in
This is where the movie really takes off, Mike enters saying “It’s just a room” after a warning from the manager just before entering “This is a fucking evil room” Mike laughs as he has heard it all from hotels wanting the tourist trade, but manager Gerald Olin tries very hard to stop Mike, but Mike gets the key
The move takes off when odd things happen, the radio turns on and starts to count down in its clock from an hour backwards, the manager said “Nobody lasted an hour in that room” I was in bed cuddled into the LIsha my dog shyting myself if the truth be told, I think the dog was too, but who knows, all strange things start happening, Mike thinks he has been spiked and is hallucination and tries to leave, the door handle breaks, he tried to throw things out the window, he can’t, he is stuck in the room.
Early in the movie Mile is surfing and gets tossed up by a wave and lands on the beach after being out cold, in the room he things he wins when he emerges in a hospital wife his ex wife who they lost a 10 year old Daughter to and Mike thinks it’s over, but he keeps seeing things, people (Ghosts he had seen in the room) small reminders of the hell he was in, then he goes to the post office to send the book away about what he thought was a dream, only for the post office to turn into the room, he never left the room, he is alone in the room, crying, the his daughter appears, he is stunned, he says “you are not real” but parenthood kicks in and he cuddles her, but she dies, and he screams “I am not losing you twice” scared, he knows every other person EVER in that room checked out through death, suicide, jumping from the window and worse, he knows he can’t leave so he sets the room on fire and calls the EVIL a bastard, the room burns to the ground and he lives.
Fast forward he is with his wife again, moving home just finishes writing the book for a 2nd time for him, the book, nobody believed in and still didn’t, but in a box he finds a tape recorder, he turned it on and never turned it off when entering the room, everything is recorded, on the tape is the voice of the daughter they both lost, the wife hears it, the camera pans back to Mike, he smiles
He has proof of the dead and his story will be believed
Brilliant movie, 9/10 for me
Shaun
Trailer:
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