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Director: Mikael Håfström (Derailed)
Writers (WGA): Stephen King ( short story from ‘Everything’s Eventual’)
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Tagline: The Dolphin Hotel invites you to stay in any of its stunning rooms. Except one.
Plot Outline: A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
User Rating: 7.5/10 (17,664 votes)
Panterken’s Rating:
Personal comments: One of the only recent horror movies I like. Cusack is phenomenal.
Trivia (provided by me):
- The room number 1408 has many other deeper meanings as well, besides the fact that 1+4+8=13. Think first of the number broken into 2 , 3 or even 4 numbers. Take the first two numbers of the room 1 and 4 or 14 which is reference to the indirect number 13 since this is actually the 13th floor of the hotel. Another way to look even deeper at the numbers is the number 08 or just 8. The number 8 turned sideways is the sign for infinity, something referencing cyclical and never-ending. There are 7 days in a week, something clearly cyclical. The numbers multiplied together equal 56 which is the number of people who died in the room.
- The story this film was based on was almost never written. Stephen King originally created the first few pages of ’1408′ for his nonfiction book, “On Writing,” as an example of how to revise a first draft. The story, however, intrigued him, and he wound up not only finishing a complete draft, but adapting it for an audio-book compilation of short stories. He supposedly got very scared himself when hearing the story recited by himself ( he allegedly almost never gets scared), so that inspired him to finish the story and make an audio-book compilation.
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