1408 (pronounced "fourteen-oh-eight")
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John
Cusack - Mike Enslin
Samuel L. Jackson -Gerald Olin
Mary McCormack - Lily
Enslin
Jasmine Jessica Anthony - Katie Enslin
Tony Shalhoub - Sam Farrell
1408 (pronounced "fourteen-oh-eight") is a 2007 fiction film based on a Stephen King story of the same name directed by Swedish film director Mikael Håfström. The cast includes John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, and Mary McCormack. The film was released in the US on June 22, 2007 although July 13th is mentioned as the release date in the trailer posted on the website. The film has been rated PG-13 in the USA for thematic material including disturbing sequences of violence and terror, and frightening images.
The film follows Mike Enslin (Cusack), an unpopular author who specializes in horror. Enslin's career is widely based on investigating alleged haunted houses, although his continuously unsuccessful searches have left him bored and pessimistic. Enslin eventually learns of the Dolphin Hotel in New York City, which houses the infamous "Room 1408." Interested, Enslin decides to spend one night in the hotel and is nearly driven insane by the supernatural behavior occurring within the room.
The film was a critical and financial success, proving to be one of the most profitable films of 2007.
1408 (pronounced "fourteen-oh-eight")
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Mike Enslin (Cusack) is a skeptic and author who debunks supernatural
occurrences after the untimely death of his daughter Katie. After finishing his
latest successful book, he receives an anonymous postcard of the Dolphin Hotel
in New York City bearing the message "don't enter 1408." Viewing this
as a challenge, Enslin attempts to book a reservation for room 1408, but the hotel
will not rent him the room. However, after being informed by Enslin's agent Sam
Farrell (Shaloub) that the Fair Housing Act requires hotels to rent unoccupied
rooms, the Dolphin reluctantly reserves room 1408 for Enslin.
Arriving at the Dolphin, Enslin is pulled aside by the hotel's manager Gerald Olin (Jackson), who warns him that no one has lasted more than an hour in 1408. 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 abandons his plan to stay in 1408. Enslin accepts the documents and the cognac but insists on staying in the room, frustrating Olin.
Once inside the room, Enslin pulls out his Mini Cassette recorder and dictates on the unremarkability of room 1408. As he examines the room, the clock radio suddenly starts blaring We've Only Just Begun by The Carpenters; he is startled, but dismisses it as a gag cooked up by Olin. Later, Enslin is startled again as the clock radio begins to play the same song, and the display scrambles and then displays 60:00, then starts counting down from 60 minutes. When he rips the clock's electrical cord from the wall, it continues to tick down. 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. He attempts to clean it at a sink but the tap suddenly scalds him even though he did not turn on the hot water. His hearing quickly returns and he bandages his hand using a bandanna from his bag. Wishing to go to a hospital, Enslin attempts to leave the room; however his key breaks off in the door and gets sucked out of the keyhole. The doorknob later falls off, trapping him inside 1408.
Enslin 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, possibly due to a drug in the cognac. He makes several attempts to free himself from the room, such as crawling through the air vents or trying to crawl outside on the ledge to the next room, but logic-defying events (such as all other rooms on the hotel's exterior disappearing and the map of the hotel inside his room goes from showing the entire hotel to only showing room 1408 while the windows are covered by walls leaving absolutely nothing but room 1408) prevent him from succeeding. He manages to contact his estranged wife Lily (Mary McCormack) via video chat, but the conversation ends abruptly when the sprinkler system shorts out his laptop. All the while the room temperature drops, eventually to subzero temperatures. However, his laptop starts working again and he hears Lily calling out to him via video chat, but a doppelgänger of him hijacks the conversation, urging Lily to come to the hotel immediately and enter room 1408. As Enslin desperately tries to tell his wife not to come the room begins to shake violently, and water explodes and floods out of a painting of a schooner lost at sea, pulling Enslin under the surface.
Enslin wakes up on the beach, the result of a surfing accident depicted earlier in the film. He soon finds Lily at his bedside in a hospital near his home in L.A.; she tells him that he was hospitalized after sustaining a concussion, leading him to conclude 1408 was just a dream. This reprieve is short-lived, however, when at the post office a construction crew made up of hotel staff and guests begin to destroy the interior, revealing the walls and floor of 1408 underneath, now fire gutted. He is still trapped inside 1408. Enslin then encounters his dead daughter, but as he emotionally embraces her she dies in his arms, then crumbles to dust as the clock radio's countdown approaches zero; when it finally reaches zero the room changes back to its original, undamaged appearance.
The clock radio resets for another 60 minutes and the phone rings; when Enslin answers, the friendly female voice of the hotel operator informs him that he can relive the hour "again and again" or choose to take advantage of their "express checkout system." A hangman's knot appears in the bedroom and Enslin has a vision of him hanging himself; he tells the operator that he will not be checking out that way. The phone rings again, and the operator reminds him that his wife will be arriving in 5 minutes and will be sent right up to his room. He responds he is done arguing and is going to end the experience. When he puts down the phone, it starts to melt and tries to discourage Enslin.
Turning the cognac into a Molotov Cocktail, Enslin sets the room on fire, causing the hotel to be evacuated. Lily arrives just seconds afterwards and is stopped from entering the hotel, but tells the firefighters that Enslin is in 1408. Enslin throws an ashtray through the room's windows, intentionally causing a backdraft to overtake the room just seconds before firefighters batter down the door. They get him out and, though burned, Enslin is told that he will be all right. Enslin attempts to tell the firefighters not to enter the room, as it is "evil." A short while later, Olin is seen in his office, smoking a cigar and praising Enslin for surviving.
Enslin recovers in a New York hospital, Lily at his bedside. He swears that he saw Katie, but Lily refuses to believe him. After his recovery Enslin moves back in with Lily, beginning work on a new, non-horror novel. While sorting through a box of items from his night in 1408, Enslin comes across his Mini Cassette recorder. After some difficulty he manages to get the tape to play; it begins with Enslin's dictation of 1408's appearance, but cuts in with audio from his interaction with the apparition of his daughter. Lily freezes in shock as she hears her dead daughter's voice coming from the tape recorder, and the film closes on Enslin meeting her shocked stare with one of grim vindication.
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