You're referring to the alternate ending of 1408, now available on the two disc version of the DVD. In this ending writer Mike Enslin has died setting fire to room 1408. He is buried and then is seen in the room where he hears his daughter's voice calling him and says "yes, ofcourse", not "well done". Mike then walks back into the destroyed room 1408 and, ghost-like, fades through the door. This is meant to show that he is merely surveying the destruction of the room, not that he has himself become trapped within it, and is now leaving to be with his daughter. In the original ending the firefighters force entry into the room and rescue Enslin as he curls under the coffee-table, delighted that the room is dying. 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 novel that has nothing to do with his previous cheap haunted sites series. 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.
You're referring to the alternate ending of 1408, now available on the two disc version of the DVD. In this ending writer Mike Enslin has died setting fire to room 1408. He is buried and then is seen in the room where he hears his daughter's voice calling him and says "yes, of course", not "well done". Mike then walks back into the destroyed room 1408 and, ghost-like, fades through the door. This is meant to show that he is merely surveying the destruction of the room, not that he has himself become trapped within it, and is now leaving to be with his daughter. In the original ending the firefighters force entry into the room and rescue Enslin as he curls under the coffee-table, delighted that the room is dying. 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 novel that has nothing to do with his previous cheap haunted sites series. 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.
In the theatrical version, Cusack's character (Mike Enslin) lives, but in the director's cut, he dies. The theatrical version ends with Enslin moving back in with his wife, who finds his fire-damaged tape recorder in one of the boxes she's unpacking. Miraculously, it still works, and she plays it back and hears their dead daughter Katie's voice on the tape, thereby proving to both of them that all the stuff that went on in the room was real. In the director's cut, Enslin dies in the fire, and Sam Jackson's character shows up at the funeral at the cemetery and tries to give Enslin's wife a box of his things that were found in the room, including the fire-damaged tape recorder. She refuses to take it, so he leaves with the box and gets into his car. When he looks in the rear-view mirror, Enslin's horribly burned spectre appears briefly for one more scare. Then right before the credits roll there is one last exterior shot of the room, showing Enslin's ghost hanging out in there. Everybody always tells me I'm crazy, but I always thought that Enslin's character dies in both the director's cut and the theatrical version. At the very end of the theatrical version, when their dead daughter's voice is playing, Enslin's wife looks at him, utterly horrified and astonished, and he just looks back at her and gives her this creepy kind of half-smile. I always thought that the creepy half-smile signified that Enslin had actually died, and his spirit was trapped in the room, and the guy sitting there with Enslin's wife isn't actually Enslin, but some kind of demon imposter, or evil doppelganger, or whatever. That the evil force managed to escape the room, taking the form of Enslin, while the real Enslin was still trapped inside. None of my friends agree with this interpretation, but when I was watching the director's cut with commentary, one of the guys said, "Well, the reason I like the director's cut is that there are a few different interpretations of it," and then the other guy said something like, "Well, there's different interpretations of the theatrical cut, too." So maybe I'm right after all.
THE ROOM IS CALLED [1408]
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The film 1408 is a horror movie about an author who is skeptical about ghosts and writes books debunking them. He finds out about a haunted hotel room, goes there to write about it and ends up getting haunted.
In Stephen King's "1408," the room itself serves as a metaphor for psychological torment and inner demons. The room's ability to manipulate reality and bring out the protagonist's fears represents the power of the mind to create its own nightmares. Additionally, the hotel manager's warning about the room being "an evil fucking room" can be seen as a metaphor for facing one's own darkest thoughts and traumas.
Yes, but certainly not as horrific as the wonderful Steven King shirt story.
The cast of Valentines Day Writers Room - 2012 includes: Mike Hanford Mike Leffingwell Marisa Pinson Nate Shelkey
Well, all the ghosts of the people who died in the room are stuck there (like the lady in the 50's-style skirt who keeps jumping out the window, and the sewing machine company guy who slit his own throat and then tried to stitch it back together). But the main thing that haunts the room -- the evil presence -- is not a ghost. Ghosts used to be human, and the thing that haunts 1408 was never human. Rather, it's an evil force, just an evil presence. As Sam Jackson's character, Mr. Olin, says, "It's an evil ****ing room." Exactly what it is and where it came from is never revealed, because it's a lot scarier when things like this are left unexplained.
It is in the chest in Mike and Fabian's room