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** This ''[[FridgeHorror also could apply to the entire 14th floor as well]]''. When Enslin first arrives to the 14th floor, there's a sense of ''unease'' as he circles the floor and looking through the information about 1408, all while noises are heard from each room. There's a housekeeper and later on a shot of left over food with flies, but other than that...it seems completely deserted.

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** This ''[[FridgeHorror also could apply to the entire 14th floor as well]]''. When Enslin first arrives to the 14th floor, there's a sense of ''unease'' as he circles the floor and looking through the information about 1408, all while noises are heard from each room. There's a housekeeper and later on a shot of left over food with flies, but other than that...it seems completely deserted. Yet, earlier, when Mike floated the idea that Olin is playing up 1408's reputation for gain, Olin shoots back that the Dolphin operates consistently at almost peak capacity. So, ''where are the other guests''?
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It wouldn't be a Stephen King adaptation without some truly horrifying moments.
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--> '''Vetter''': And sometimes I think, wouldnt it be a day if one day the last of that rubber just...wears off? Wouldnt it be a day, Farnham?

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--> ---> '''Vetter''': And sometimes I think, wouldnt it be a day if one day the last of that rubber just...wears off? Wouldnt it be a day, Farnham?
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** That... fucking... phone. And the clock radio.

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** That... fucking... phone. And the clock radio. You will NEVER hear [[Music/TheCarpenters “We’ve Only Just Begun”]] the same way again…
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* The very AdultFear of watching your child slowly dying from a horrible illness. Full stop.

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* The very AdultFear of watching Watching your child slowly dying from a horrible illness. Full stop.
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* The most unsettling thing about Room 1408 is that it's unknown ''what'' truly resides in the room. The Room itself seems to work around the concept of GeniusLoci, playing off as a normal hotel room before psychologically tormenting it's victims with past sins/mistakes/regrets/events of their lives against it, keeping them in the room until they either take their lives or repeat the hour they're now trapped in. When Olin calls 1408 an "evil fucking room", he ''truly'' means it, since [[NothingIsScarier what else could the Room be?]]

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* The most unsettling thing about Room 1408 is that it's unknown ''what'' truly resides in the room. The Room itself seems to work around the concept of GeniusLoci, playing off as a normal hotel room before psychologically tormenting it's its victims with past sins/mistakes/regrets/events of their lives against it, keeping them in the room until they either take their lives or repeat the hour they're now trapped in. When Olin calls 1408 an "evil fucking room", he ''truly'' means it, since [[NothingIsScarier what else could the Room be?]]
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* The false ending gives way to a worse piece: the evil room trots out Cusack's dead daughter, lets him hold her as she begs him not to let "them" take her away, then she crumbles to ash in his arms.

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* The false ending gives way to a worse piece: the evil room trots out Cusack's Enslin's dead daughter, lets him hold her as she begs him not to let "them" take her away, then she crumbles to ash in his arms.
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** One of the alternate endings on the blu-ray has Mike's editor receiving the manuscript he wrote --[[FridgeLogic though God only knows how he got it]]-- and reading it. Quotes from the movie begin to play, looping and overlapping each other, including a few from that [[SarcasmMode delightful]] phone (including one that didn't happen in the movie--"Your daughter is being eaten by wolves on the Connecticut turnpike") as the camera slowly backs away from the editor...through the now-inexplicably empty office. The doors swing shut accompanied by "As I am...", and the movie cuts to black just before "...you will be." -''shiver''-
** The creature in the [[AirVentPassageway vents]]. Which is not just some kind of monster, but the reanimated corpse of Kevin O'Malley, one of 1408's first victims.

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** One of the alternate endings on the blu-ray Blu-ray release has Mike's editor receiving the manuscript he wrote --[[FridgeLogic wrote--[[FridgeLogic though God only knows how he got it]]-- and it]]--and reading it. Quotes from the movie begin to play, looping and overlapping each other, including a few from that [[SarcasmMode delightful]] phone (including one that didn't happen in the movie--"Your daughter is being eaten by wolves on the Connecticut turnpike") as the camera slowly backs away from the editor...through the now-inexplicably empty office. The doors swing shut accompanied by "As I am...", and the movie cuts to black just before "...you will be." -''shiver''-
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** The creature in Mike tries to escape through the [[AirVentPassageway vents]]. Which is not just some kind of monster, but vents]], only to be chased back into 1408 by the reanimated corpse of Kevin O'Malley, one of 1408's the room's first victims.
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* Enslin looking around the room in the dark, using a blacklight to see the bloodstains left by the room's previous victims long after they've been cleaned up. Every time it the light reveals a particularly large patch, we see a flash of the appropriate victim from Olin's folder. It's a grim reminder to Mike and the audience that whatever he believes about the room by this point, he can't actually deny that people have really suffered and died within the room, in very bad ways.

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* Enslin looking around the room in the dark, using a blacklight to see the bloodstains left by the room's previous victims long after they've been cleaned up. Every time it the light reveals a particularly large patch, patch of blood, we see a flash of the appropriate victim from Olin's folder. It's a grim reminder to Mike and the audience that whatever he believes about the room by this point, he can't actually deny that people have really suffered and died within the room, in very bad ways.
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*Enslin looking around the room in the dark, using a blacklight to see the bloodstains left by the room's previous victims long after they've been cleaned up. Every time it the light reveals a particularly large patch, we see a flash of the appropriate victim from Olin's folder. It's a grim reminder to Mike and the audience that whatever he believes about the room by this point, he can't actually deny that people have really suffered and died within the room, in very bad ways.

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