1408 🎥 2007 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Mike Enslin is a very cynical and skeptical author of niche books about supernatural events, in which he has no belief. While promoting his latest book in Hermosa Beach, California, he receives an anonymous postcard depicting The Dolphin, a hotel on Lexington Avenue in New York City, bearing the message: “Don’t enter 1408.” Viewing this as a challenge, Mike travels to The Dolphin and requests room 1408. The hotel manager, Gerald Olin, attempts to discourage him. He explains to Mike that in the last 95 years, no one has lasted more than an hour inside of 1408; the latest count is 56 deaths.

Olin repeatedly and impassionately attempts to dissuade and bribe Mike, but at Mike’s insistence and threat of legal action against the hotel, preparations are reluctantly made. While Mike describes the room’s ordinary appearance and absence of supernatural behavior on his mini-cassette recorder as the “banality of evil”, the clock radio suddenly starts playing The Carpenters’ “We’ve Only Just Begun”, and the digital display changes to a countdown starting from 60:00. Mike begins to see ghosts of the room’s past and previous victims, along with flashbacks of his deceased daughter Katie and his terminally ill father.

Mike makes numerous attempts to leave the room, all in vain. Mike uses his laptop to contact his estranged wife Lily and ask for help. The room activates the sprinkler system, short-circuiting the laptop, which starts to work again when the temperature drops to subzero. A doppelgänger of Mike appears in a video chat window, urging Lily to come to the hotel room. The room starts to shake violently, causing Mike to crash into a picture of a ship in a storm, from which water floods the room. He finds himself reliving a surfing accident from his past, before he entered the room.

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