1408

«1408» is a surprising film in that it actually has a few different endings. The ending that was originally shot for the film has Mike dying in a fire that destroys room 1408. At Mike’s funeral, Olin arrives to see Lily and attempts to give her all of Mike’s personal items, including his cassette player. She declines, and he returns to his car. Opening the box of Mike’s stuff, Olin listens to the cassette tape and hears Katie’s voice, before being horrified at seeing a burnt Mike in his backseat through the rearview mirror. This ending, which is dubbed the director’s cut, ends with a look inside of what remains of room 1408, where a ghostly Mike smokes a cigarette and walks off to reunite with his daughter. Audiences apparently thought this ending was too dark, and so the official theatrical release ended with Mike’s survival, his reunion with Lily, and the listening of the tape.

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Room 1408 is definitely real

One thing that the King adaptation makes completely clear is that room 1408 and everything that goes on inside is not a part of Mike’s imagination. It’s real. When Mike originally goes to the Dolphin Hotel, he sees room 1408 as a challenge to prove that it’s all fake. Documenting his experience on a cassette recorder, Mike begins to see and hear strange things soon after entering the room. He tries to leave the room but is unable to do so, and 1408 takes advantage of his past trauma with his father, wife, and daughter in order to torture him. At one point, 1408 even tricks Mike into thinking he’s escaped and moved on with his life, but it’s all another way to play with his mind.

So why is all this happening? Well, there’s no real reason, aside from Mike’s decision to enter the room. It appears to be an invitation to 1408 to test his limits, just as it has with all the other people who’ve stayed there. Many of the haunting events in 1408 have to do with past visitors — or victims — of the room, but it eventually gets personal, mixing the real world horror of trauma and grief with supernatural hauntings. Of course, with any horror film, it could be chalked up to the protagonist’s imagination or some hallucination, but like with all of King’s works, the story of «1408» is based in a world where dark and supernatural places do exist, and this hotel room is just one of them. In the theatrically released ending to «1408,» Mike’s wife Lily (Mary McCormack) validates his experiences when she finds the cassette tape and plays it, hearing the voice of their daughter, Katie (Jasmine Jessica Anthony), who at that time is already long dead.

Обзор

Известный писатель Майк Энслин, сочиняющий свои романы в жанре «ужасы», пишет очередную книгу о необычных явлениях и полтергейсте в отелях. Не верящий в существование загробной жизни, Энслин решает поселиться в печально известном номере 1408 гостиницы «Дельфин», который пустует многие годы: по слухам, там обитают привидения. Невзирая на предупреждения старшего менеджера мистера Джеральда Олина о грозящей опасности, упрямец настаивает на своем, даже не предполагая, каким кошмаром обернется предстоящая ночь…

1. Mikael Håfström Director
2. Larry Karaszewski Screenplay
3. Matt Greenberg Screenplay
4. Скотт Александер Screenplay

Источники:

https://www.starz.com/us/en/movies/1408-49836?ref=googlewatch&rut=0ba3a0688d73a31189118c80aa21b8ed263ccbdbc2fb46cf9c8bc9d382057c19
https://www.looper.com/422046/the-ending-of-1408-explained/&rut=9a6317706d7a14b2f73c2548a36e5edbd77b165766b9399e7c0ef378b13f60d6
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/3021-1408&rut=b7bb7ab5a36e5a3dd8bcbb710f92a0c563cb9a8f03e1e5b6bbb064d63cacd731