1408 | A Horror Movie So INSANE They Changed The ENDING..

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  @ArchTeryx00 · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  The original Stephen King ending - the actual <b>canon</b> ending - is when Enslin sets his lucky Hawaiian shirt on fire to commit suicide. That triggers the room to let him out, as it seems to like its victims intact. A hotel guest, seeing the burning man escaping the room, douses him with icewater.<br><br>Enslin is horribly burned, but survives, and goes on to write the story of 1408. The room, it seems, is itself an Eldritch Abomination, one that <b>eats</b> people. What&apos;s there isn&apos;t ghosts. It&apos;s some <b>thing</b> in the wall that lures people there and forces them to repeat an hour of pure, untrammeled hell. Over, and over, and over again.... until they kill themselves. There&apos;s a common fan theory that Room 1408 is a &quot;thinny&quot; - Stephen King parlance for a place where the barrier between dimensions has worn thin, and what starts pouring out into that room is pure Eldritch Abomination. (&quot;The Mist&quot; and &quot;From a Buick 8&quot; are other examples of &quot;thinnies.&quot;) The primary voice of whatever the Thing is is the phone, which would periodically call him, screech seemingly random numbers, and give him messages designed to drive him over the edge. ( &quot;This is 9... 9! We have killed your friends! All your friends are now dead!&quot; )<br><br>Being a nonbeliever Enslin was even MORE vulnerable to the room than most, because he didn&apos;t put up any sort of mental barriers against what was in there. He was expecting ghosts. What he got was much... <b>*much*</b> ... worse.<br><br> &quot;It was never human. Ghosts... at least ghosts were once human. The thing in the wall, though... that thing...&quot;

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  @Leftysrev3nge · 1 year ago

  The alternate endings are just an Easter egg to remind us that we&apos;re still in the room. We never left 1408 either.

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  @implicit_d · 2 years ago

  I think the crazy alternate endings being so different is like a meta 1408 bit. Make the viewer question what they ever saw, just as the room did to he protagonist.

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  @Pabor · 2 years ago

  The ending with the recorder and Lily dropping the pack never fails to give me chills. I&apos;m glad that&apos;s the one I saw in cinema the first time.

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  @SpaceShip-Orion · 1 year ago

  I always imagined a ghost sitting on the other side of that phone call, giggling and saying “he still thinks I’m the receptionist!!”

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  @XxAmayaSanxX · 2 years ago

  The theatrical ending where hes with his wife in a new apartment and his burnt recorder is the best one imo and Idk why they made all these alternate ones.

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  @keymaster430 · 2 years ago

  It&apos;s been years, but what I remember from the short story, is that he escapes, while on fire, and another hotel guest sees him and puts him out. He survives and when he goes back to the hotel after a while, he talks to the manager. Who tells him that the video surveillance camera captures him running out of the room a mere few seconds after he originally entered. So, everything that happened to him in the room, happened within just a few seconds.

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  @AlexAndrom3da · 1 month ago

  The fact that they had different endings just ads to the psychological gaslighting

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  @DontKnowDontCare6.9 · 2 years ago

  1408 proves that you can make a horror movie without predictable jump scares and without insulting the audience&apos;s intelligence.<br><br>I give it 10 Skulls.

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  @xhul2558 · 2 years ago (edited)

  There&apos;s an interesting clue in the movie, that only french-speaking people can catch. When Olin briefs Mike about the tragedies, he explicitly states that 56 people died in the room. Now, the bottle he gives him is called &quot;les cinquante-sept décès&quot;, which means &quot;the 57 deaths&quot;. It can be interpreted as a warning, a taunt, or simply the fact that Mike is bound to die in 1408, which makes the 2 sad endings a bit more meaningful.

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  @c83hr · 2 years ago

  1408 and Occulus are both very effective horror movies for me. &nbsp;The idea of not being able to even trust your own perception is terrifying

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  @TheMostBrokeRothschild · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWHySvs2sl4&amp;t=306">5:06</a> that song has creeped me out ever since I saw this movie too. That song and that old “sunshine” song in autopsy of Jane doe just give me the chills every time.

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