If a concierge tells you to stay out of a room, you want to see the room. If Samuel L. Jackson tells you to stay out of a room, you stay out of that damn room.
I remember the first time I watched it, I saw the ending with him living and having the tape with Katie, but I went to go watch it when years later, I watched the second ending. Y'all, I thought I was tripping balls.
Same! My friend and I watched the movie in theaters and loved it, then later watched it on DVD and were like...what the actual fuck...were we smokin crack the first time or now?
1408: im gonna make this mans so depressed he kills himself Mike: *actually gets closure, the strength to move on and actually gets proof of the supernatural*
@@thedude8457 It gave him what he wanted, another chance to hear the daughter and see her. So having ''few'' horrow scenes to pay for it, was totaly worth it , for him.
I don't even consider this one a horror movie anymore. It's an epic story about a man's road to redemption and I cry everytime. The theatrical is for sure the better one.
One of my favorite narrative techniques. You create a situation where seemingly all evidence points to it not being real, or at least you cannot find easy evidence of the encounter. However, the movie ends with clear evidence that the character did indeed experience some crazy shit. I can't remember what movie it was, the one with Sandra Bullock and aliens? But it uses the same type of technique to tell the audience that her experience was real.
@@stanleyc2978 is that the one where she keeps thinking she talking to someone on the other side one of them being her father but when she returns no one believes her bc she was gone for only like 5 minutes even though there like 24 hours of the recording?
honestly i prefer the ending where he burns the room down and dies in it, the bitter sweet feeling it gives kills my heart, it gives us a little more insight on the hotel manager when he actually praises the main character to his now widowed wife for destroying the evil of the room, make us believe there might be a bit more to it than we are shown in the movie when we see an entity behind him in the car mirror that freaks him out. but most importantly what I love most about it, being the moment where you see his spirit in the burned room and then hear his daughter call out to him, and he walks away out of view replying "of course". letting us know that in death he was reunited with his daughter.
I love this host so much because he reminds me of the funny, pot-loving sidekick in vintage slashers that I always want to see survive but who ends up dying in the first twelve minutes.
The theatrical ending is much better, it feels complete and he comes out as a better person instead of just burning to death without facing his issues head on.
@@thatoneguy1224 [SPOILERS FOR ANYONE WHO HAVEN'T SEEN THE BABADOOK AND A FEW OTHER FILMS THAT THIS CHANNEL HAS COVERED...DUH!] Yeah, I thought it was pretty weird that they just end up feeding him worms at the end and hurray everything is solved. Much prefer the endings to Impetigore, Saint Maud, Son which all end badly. Even the Empty Man has an ending where it's like "yep, this guy was doomed from the start and there was nothing he could have done" none of the "oh he found a magic lamp and now everything is sunshine and rainbows" like that's not the point of horror movies to me.
The person you keep calling "hammer lady" is actually a man. His name is Benny "the Jet" Urquidez. The guy's been a stunt coordinator and martial artist since the 80s.
Missed the foreshadowing where he literally says “the rooms on fire” when calling to report the thermostat and that’s the only time he could get the door open or sees another actual person
i mean, it faxed a dress. that's not how fax machines tend to work. though evil tends to be pretty hip to technology - sure, some pagan god living off of sacrifices in some thousand year old forest can do without it, but there's plenty of weird shit more than willing to take advantage of it.
Given that all King works are 100% connected, it's pretty clear that the room was built from materials recovered from the Overlook Hotel. Stripped of most of it's spirits by Danny absorbing them, and having to build up it's strength again by tormenting and twisting new victims.
There is another possibility that the room contains an egg from Pennywise that was not destroyed. The Powers of the room seem to mimic Pennywise to a much smaller degree.
@@mymy-pc6zq the room seems to be an entity using the managers appearance as an avatar I think it knew he wasn't going to leave when he was there as he was to curious
@@clockworkNateI assume he was. As he didn’t want to even step into the room. But since he just disappeared without a trace seems like it could be part of the room. Who knows.
@@Mikey-ym6okWhen Mike looks to see where the repairman went, he sees the repairman walking away. So we do see where the guy went. He was just fast to get away from the room lol
@RehlDregur the shielded In Snakes on a Plane Samuel L. Jackson said I'm sick and tired of these monkey fight snakes of this monday through friday train. (I think) which means I'm tired of these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane. He just basically redubbed it for this movie as a joke. I'm aware this could br a joke but my dumb ass wanted to point out to obvious
The Theatrical ending was phenomenal. When I watched this movie for the first time and he woke up in the hospital I thought "Maybe it all was a hallucination like the room did previously and none of it was real. Maybe he was having a mental breakdown and we just watched the inner fight and turmoil." Movies have done similar things before after-all, but when the tape-recorder played and you hear the voice of the deceased, undeniable proof that it was real and he waded neck deep through hell, a very genuine chill ran down my back at the mere prospect of it.
Sam's character is a older British man in the book. A famous line goes: "If a stuffy british man tells you to stay out of a room, you'll likely go in out of spite. When Sam ****ING Jackson tells you to stay out of the goddamned room, you at minimum consider it." Hence why he's in the movie.
John's performance was amazing. I used to think nicholas cage should've been the star, but John totally rocked it, especially the assault on the fridge lol.
I always thought the theatrical ending meant that he was still in the room, along with Lily now. Hearing his daughter's voice on the recorder with Lily hearing it too would indicate that not only he is still in the room, Lily is too.
yessssss this is what I thought too !! the only reason he survived is bc lily told the police he was still in there yet the room is the one that brought her to the hotel but why would it do that unless it wanted her to be apart of it too ? along with mike screaming ‘you can’t have her’ it seems like the room did want her too
I also had this thinking. When his daughter's voice came on and his wife dropped the box I was expecting the room to change. It didn't but I still took it as they were both there now.
I just finished watching the movie & reading comments but I think you guys are correct & the daughter said something like “ I want to stay with you & mommy” they won’t let me stay”which signifies the mother is in the room as well. It makes sense since the mom heard Katie on the tape as well, They are both in the room still. Possibly.
I think he's out, we do get flashes of writing on the walls saying burn me alive, I first thought "who would write that, burn ME alive? With all the suicides that rooms brings why is that one on the wall? It's for the room, one wall to end it is to burn it, also they seem to indicate he'll relive that hour forever in a loop, but we know 15 minutes before the next loop, his wife says she'll be there in about 15, when the next loop starts she's now 5 minutes away, showing that even with its time bending and reality bending its bubble is still in this universe so when he starts the fire the bubble pops and put them back
And I think the ending with the daughter was the entity's remnants to show it existed, because if it was just him rambling about what happened his wife would just think of him being theatrical and extra, but showing that interaction and only that, could be proof enough that it happened
The one part that really freaked me out was when he went into the duct to try and get help from the lady next door. How they did the ghosts making them static-y looking was very unique too. This imo is the perfect modern horror movie.
The evil entity living inside the room is my guess. If a famous author writes about the room people are going to want in. If he survives and writes about it, more victims. If he doesn't, well, nothing lost there.
Your not missing much anyways, "ive never clicked on a video so fast" "is it christmas/my birthday?!" "I miss your long hair!" "Do (insert movie title here) next!!"
Tiny bit of trivia... The "crazy hammer lady" was played by famed martial artist Benny "the jet" Urqidez. John Cousack is a huge fan of his, and has even trained with him. I'm sure got him the part
ayan A me too. Not even because I’m scared but because a lot of these are so hard to find because they ain’t on Netflix or anything and I don’t want to rent em
The best part of this movie imo was the blinded maid part: "She spent only a few moments alone and when we opened it she was..." "Dead?" He says sarcastly "No, blind... she gouged her own eyes with a scissor"
one small point that i always thought, to the outside world it was merely a few minutes, but who knows 1408 seemed to be able to manipulate the envoirnment, create memories the whole lot so why wouldnt it be able to manipulate time, in fact it kinda seems like it does, the whole scene where he thinks he gets out and goes to write the book leading to the destroying post office, seem like that would be something that takes longer than an hour, so i always thought that maid might have spent an hour in terms of the room but to the outside world it was minutes
How is it that Foundflix never whispers, does not add creepy music in the background, no jumpscares but just the cheer wording f the plot summary gives me the chills??? Brrrr
I know this is just a movie explained but the part towards the end about having to live with the pain hit me hard. Two family members in my life that I considered close were murdered. One in 2015 and the other was a little over a week ago. It's so hard to live with that pain of losing someone. You can always be glad for what your remember but man....it's such a struggle. I'm still trying to figure out how to live with such violent deaths. I feel so stuck atm.
@@SheBizzler "I once was what you are and what I am you also will be" is the translation I learned about in Art History, it's on Massacio's "Holy Trinity", written in Latin on an altar that has a skeleton on it. Variations on the Latin phrase have popped up throughout history. Massacio probably got it from such a source, the Renaissance was all about gritty reboots of ancient Greece and Rome. It's a memento mori, something meant to keep people humbled by reminding them of death's inevitability. Fits in the movie pretty well I think :)
I like to think Mike died on the beach and everything after was his transition to the next place. If you think about it, he spent years trying to find “the place” that he has been looking for. His last place just happens to be what he was looking for, plus he finds his goal in reaching his daughter.
I have a thought that he is still in the 'bed and breakfast' room at the beginning. If you listen to the couple at the desk tell stories of what happen(ed), its earily semilair to what the hotal room is doing to him.
The ending in which he survives and his wife hears their daughter’s voice on the recorder is *the* ending; I refuse to accept any others. John Cusack acted his rear off for this movie. The dude basically did the entire thing by himself and he absolutely killed it. The guy is one heckuva actor.
Agreed. Plus Samuel Jackson’s performance was great too. I really like how they got John Cusack and Samuel L in this together. The director’s cut just feels like overkill with a weaker resolution for shock value.
Our boy Mike after going through hell in that room for a whole hour, simply told the room to go to hell and saying that the room was a 10/10 skulls, who cares about Steve Rogers taking on Thanos, this is a true badass.
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I was just watching that the other day on amazon prime. Ive seen it years ago but i always wondered since he killed his daughter by mistake, did he just loose it and kill himself by eating the pie out of guilt?
@@seriousnesstv7902 When he lets Dr. Mikey in to join him for a slice of pie, he smiles as he closes the door.The guilt just consumed him.How could you live with yourself after that? He just killed his daughter indirectly. There is just no coming back from that. He had nothing to live for so he ate the pie as well. Its all left up to the imagination, but thats my interpretation.
Oh I know HP Lovecraft I just always find it funny in the fact that whenever he describes an object, he goes into every single detail. But whenever he goes into the monsters, he says it's indescribable.
Love this movie, one of my favorite stories ever, but there's a small detail here that was not mentioned. When Mike is about to send the book at the post office and the people start destroying the place, showing that he never escaped the room, the camera pays attention to one of the walls for like three seconds, there is small inscription that said something like "burn it", that clues him into burning the room later. I always wondered who wrote that, couldn't be the room, would not make sense for the room to tell him how to kill it, was it the ghosts of the people killed by the room or his daugther who left that message there to help him? or was it Mike own subconscious that came with the idea and the room copied into the wall by accident? guess I'll never know
I thought that the room actually despised its own existence, and was lashing out at its inhabitants as a result. So the writing on the bare bricks (symbolising the room's subconscious, or just deep within its mind) with no wallpaper (honest, no facade) was the room asking to be put out of its misery.
Anyone else realize Jake had to go through a place just like 1408 in the Gunslinger series? I love how everything is connected in his dark universe. And at the center of it all is the Dark Tower, slowly decaying... Hell when he gets to the Tower itself, it acts like a sentient mind reading being itself...
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*You missed several key aspect of this movie:* *1.* During Mike and Gerald's first encounter, Mike asks Olin: "Is 1408 a smoking room? " , to which Olin replies: ""As a matter of fact, it is, yes." - somewhat of a foreshadowing. *2.* Room 1408 gave Mike two opportunities to leave - the elevator opening just as Mike gets closer within the corridor to 1408, and when the door is allowed to be opened for the handyman. *3.* Mike may have had the Shine - aspects of it at least - given how he was able to withstand over an hour of such torment without going mad. Such suspected candidates would be members of the Losers' Club, John Coffey, David from Desperation, Duddits from Dreamcatcher, David Drayton from The Mist etc ~
Maybe she was the only thing real about the room considering that she was the only so called manifestation of the room that didn't try to physically harm him💁♀️
A couple of things: 1) I think his daughter was really there. Her spirit. I think that because she said "It won't let me stay" when he was begging her to stay with him. I saw that room as him going through the 9 circles of hell. Hell brought her back, just to take her away, so he could suffer more. 2) I don't think he ever left the room even in ending where he "survived", remember his tape caught the room saying "even when you leave this room, you never leave this room", which I took as he never left the room. I like the ending better where he died because he got to be with his daughter at the end, his ghost never having to suffer again, while also saving his wife.
I think he's out, we do get flashes of writing on the walls saying burn me alive, I first thought "who would write that, burn ME alive? With all the suicides that rooms brings why is that one on the wall? It's for the room, one wall to end it is to burn it, also they seem to indicate he'll relive that hour forever in a loop, but we know 15 minutes before the next loop, his wife says she'll be there in about 15, when the next loop starts she's now 5 minutes away, showing that even with its time bending and reality bending its bubble is still in this universe so when he starts the fire the bubble pops and put them back
And I think the ending with the daughter was the entity's remnants to show it existed, because if it was just him rambling about what happened his wife would just think of him being theatrical and extra, but showing that interaction and only that, could be proof enough that it happened
The book honestly was more creepy in the sense that the room is made out to be a strange alien lovecraftian entity, not just a spirit or a haunted room. While the protagonist does survive he is rendered with physical and psychological trauma. One thing that I find particularly interesting is the presence of “orange yellow lights” in the room, one of which after the protagonist manages to leave; scars him with fear. I believe it’s a reference to the “dead lights” from another of King’s stories IT; whose form is said to be of withering orange lights from the reaches of dark space in the universe outside our own. Interesting stuff.
This movie never implied it was a spirit or possession thing. In the words of Samuel L. Jackson: "it's nothing like that. It's just an evil fucking room."
We need more people like Mike in ghost/supernatural movies. Where as soon as weird shit starts happening (that they purposely sought after for) they start freaking out and become defenseless. Yet Mike actually does stuff and actively and creatively tries to figure his way out of the room and keep his wits about him.
Honestly, I often find your reviews & the subsequent comments to be more thought provoking than the movies themselves. One point of note: the bottle he's given isn't whiskey but rather a fine cognac. Even more, it's label reads "Les Cinquante-Sept Deces" which doesn't actually exist but translates to "The 57th Death" or "The 57 Deaths." The current total of deaths for the room stood at 56.
Still my number one favorite horror film personally. From the set design (even as the room becomes trashed and frozen, too) To the acting (Olin and Enslin talking in the office being the best dialogue exchange for sure) To the themes, the scares, the audio and imagery. Such a great, honestly underrated film. The theatrical ending will forever be the best. Seeing Mike come out from the experience a better man, having made himself whole. As well as the horrifying final implication that everything he’d encountered in 1408 was very much real, as evidenced by his tape recorder that Lily listens too as well, further proving him right as he now is a believer.
The lady with the hammer is actually long time friend and kickboxing trainer of John Kusack named Benny “the jet” Urquidez. A respected and world renowned kickboxer during the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s.
I actually had a haunted hotel guide.My bf at the time tried to stay in a specific room and when we got there, they said we couldn't. So glad to see a new video.
Personally I like the theatrical ending. Hearing the daughter on the recorder was the best ending. Also I really liked how it followed dante's inferno in a round about way
Personally I'd love to see a prequel. We already knows what happens to the room and what happened to everyone who stayed there but I really enjoy time bending movies like this. Oculus is one of my other favorite movies of all time, evil objects that do stuff like that freak me out way more than demons. Demon movies are way too overrated
Ghost: Spooky cho- Me: *Throws the chocolate down throat* GIVE ME MORE I DEMAND IT Ghost: *Spawns more chocolate* ME: MORE MORE Ghost: Dude you need to calm dow- ME : I REQUIRE THE CHOCOLATE NOW
Ghost: Floods the entire room with liquid chocolate. Oompah, Loompah, Doompaty-Doo... What do you get when you guzzle down sweets? You drown. End of movie. Next!
@@So-calledOjsimpson I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying I disagree and believe Jessica Rothe is one of the best horror actresses of the 21st century
@@gallifrey_falls i think it was because SLJ was a slave at the time so he couldn't work on the film and the director felt that the movie would be incomplete without him.
SCP: 1408 Object Class: Euclid Containment Procedure: *DON'T GO IN THAT ROOM MOTHERFUCKER!* Description: *IT NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION, DON'T SAT IN THAT ROOM MOTHERFUCKER!*
There is one other alternate ending that uses elements of both the endings. Mike dies from his fire injuries. Afterwards, Olin remarks "Well done, Enslin. Well done." Instead of the funeral scene, the sounds of a funeral are dubbed over establishing shots of Los Angeles. Lily and Sam sort through Mike's effects in Lily's new home. Sam says, "Well, at least he went out in a blaze." Lily gives him a look of disapproval. Sam returns to his New York office, sorts through his mail, and discovers the manuscript that Mike wrote about Room 1408, written after Mike thought he had awakened from a dream. As Sam reads the story, audio from Mike's experiences in the room is heard. In a final scene, Sam's office doors slam shut and Mike's father's voice says, "As I was, you are. As I am, you will be." Copied from Wikipedia.
I would recommend watching Real Dimensional Pictures look into this movie and book, he dose such a good job, it made me love this movie even more: '1408: The Philosophical Depths That Horror Can Reach'
Uncanny Unicorn Yes Real Dimensional Pictures video was AMAZING. I actually just watched that a couple days ago. It really is an excellent and extremely well thought out video.
I like that a "good" ending is available for those of use with souls that are not dead. And a "dark" ending for the rest of you sociopaths that love misery.
@Brittany Bennett how so? Is it childish to hope for dawn after a dark night? To hope that something comes from all the pain and misery? Well if that makes me childish, then I am content with that. And if your sad existence is what being an adult means to you, I pity you. Take your self righteous bullshit somewhere else you wet towel.
When Samuel L Jackson does EVERYTHING in his power to not get you in too a room, You better believe him. About the movie: I didnt like too much the directors cut ending. So thanks for the theatrical ending👍.
The theatrical ending is infinitely superior. The director was wrong to kill off mike and thereby undo all the journey by letting his pain consume him completely and trying to have a downer ending simply to break the trend.
If Gerald legitimately was trying to keep Mike from staying in the room, who sent him the postcard saying stay out? They establish the room can't hurt you until you actually go in.
I actually always thought that the old book he wrote "the long road home" was about his own dad since we get to see a glimpse of him losing his mind while the protagonist is stuck in his room. I dunno it just feels like it was a nod to his old OLD life with his dad and the problems it gave him just to be amplified by his daughter passing..
Same. In the version of the movie I have, the one and only time the father is seen is when he is shown in the bathroom of 1408. The interaction between the two of them made me feel they had little to no love for one another. Even after watching this video, I still like to think that the book is about Mike's relationship with his father.
I actually think The Long Road Home is about Mike's relationship with his father. Based upon how he talks about it its a very old novel, possibly one of his first. And the movie doesn't paint him as being a bastard to his daughter at all.
Wow, I've seen the movie several times and boy am I glad that this is the first time that I hear about "director's cut ending." On my DVD ut has the theatrical one.
I agree. I was a teenager when I first saw this movie (theatrical ending) and my hair stood on its ends on that part where they listened to that tape record. I prefer that one too. I just watched the alternate ending and it's really lame
I saw it in the theater in 2004. Loved it then mistakenly a couple years later not knowing about the different cuts and accidentally bought the directors cut, and hated it cause the ending. But just the other day I watched again on Roku channel and it has the theatrical cut!!! I was so happy
If a concierge tells you to stay out of a room, you want to see the room.
If Samuel L. Jackson tells you to stay out of a room, you stay out of that damn room.
You stay out of the motherfuckin room, more like
I’m so sick of these mother fucking ghosts in this mother fucking room
*I'm sorry. I'll show myself out*
"Say what again!"
D Mittleman words from a wise man
I remember the first time I watched it, I saw the ending with him living and having the tape with Katie, but I went to go watch it when years later, I watched the second ending. Y'all, I thought I was tripping balls.
I would've thought I was living in a simulation or something 😂
There being two endings and you tripping balls are not mutually exclusive :D
for real, i was like "shit, am i having a dejavu?"
Same! My friend and I watched the movie in theaters and loved it, then later watched it on DVD and were like...what the actual fuck...were we smokin crack the first time or now?
Fuck same. I was arguing with a friend like “this is NOT the ending I saw in theatres. I’m not crazy.”
1408: im gonna make this mans so depressed he kills himself
Mike: *actually gets closure, the strength to move on and actually gets proof of the supernatural*
I guess Mike should thank room 1408 for fixing his life
1408 : Am I a joke to you?
1408 once he gets out: 🤨
@@thedude8457 It gave him what he wanted, another chance to hear the daughter and see her. So having ''few'' horrow scenes to pay for it, was totaly worth it , for him.
When you try to kill a man and end up giving him what he wants and bettering his life.
I don't even consider this one a horror movie anymore. It's an epic story about a man's road to redemption and I cry everytime. The theatrical is for sure the better one.
It's almost about the book he had written before.
feels like Silen Hill
Mike : There are no ghosts
1408 : Am about to end this man's whole career
1408: "Hold my beer"
Lmao
Hahahs. Kinda what he gets being a bastard
1408: hold my ghosts
Don'tAsk he ain’t doing anything after this
That ending, when she hears the recording of Katies voice, confirming what Mike has been through. Thats some excellenct writing
2B...
One of my favorite narrative techniques. You create a situation where seemingly all evidence points to it not being real, or at least you cannot find easy evidence of the encounter. However, the movie ends with clear evidence that the character did indeed experience some crazy shit. I can't remember what movie it was, the one with Sandra Bullock and aliens? But it uses the same type of technique to tell the audience that her experience was real.
@@stanleyc2978 is that the one where she keeps thinking she talking to someone on the other side one of them being her father but when she returns no one believes her bc she was gone for only like 5 minutes even though there like 24 hours of the recording?
@@daffinydavis977 That's Contact, lol
honestly i prefer the ending where he burns the room down and dies in it, the bitter sweet feeling it gives kills my heart, it gives us a little more insight on the hotel manager when he actually praises the main character to his now widowed wife for destroying the evil of the room, make us believe there might be a bit more to it than we are shown in the movie when we see an entity behind him in the car mirror that freaks him out. but most importantly what I love most about it, being the moment where you see his spirit in the burned room and then hear his daughter call out to him, and he walks away out of view replying "of course". letting us know that in death he was reunited with his daughter.
I love this host so much because he reminds me of the funny, pot-loving sidekick in vintage slashers that I always want to see survive but who ends up dying in the first twelve minutes.
He's way better then that. He's more a die at the beginning but come back later to help.
Except for cabin in the woods
@@bettyboop4460 loved Marty...
He reminds me of Shaggy in Scooby-Doo
The theatrical ending is much better, it feels complete and he comes out as a better person instead of just burning to death without facing his issues head on.
Indeed......much better!
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What is it with Americans loving happy endings?
@@kgapaneseschoolgirlb right? Ruins a lot of otherwise great movies ex: the babadook
@@thatoneguy1224 [SPOILERS FOR ANYONE WHO HAVEN'T SEEN THE BABADOOK AND A FEW OTHER FILMS THAT THIS CHANNEL HAS COVERED...DUH!]
Yeah, I thought it was pretty weird that they just end up feeding him worms at the end and hurray everything is solved.
Much prefer the endings to Impetigore, Saint Maud, Son which all end badly. Even the Empty Man has an ending where it's like "yep, this guy was doomed from the start and there was nothing he could have done" none of the "oh he found a magic lamp and now everything is sunshine and rainbows" like that's not the point of horror movies to me.
Mike: this room is fake
Room 1408: aw shit here we go again
It’s: “Ah shit... here we go again”
More like, "I'm gonna ruin this man's whole career"
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Corny
@@kaiba3612 corny
The person you keep calling "hammer lady" is actually a man.
His name is Benny "the Jet" Urquidez. The guy's been a stunt coordinator and martial artist since the 80s.
He assumed the gender
wait for real? Allways thought it was a woman Oo
Oh yeah he was the rival hit man in Grosse Point Blank
His fight with Jackie Chan is one of the best
Sandlot?
Missed the foreshadowing where he literally says “the rooms on fire” when calling to report the thermostat and that’s the only time he could get the door open or sees another actual person
In that scene the telephone was unplugged, the man was never there.
@@paulmousel7624 dude i need to rewatch it. i didnt even catch that
I liked when the room faxed him his daughters dress, showing that the room is both evil and good with technology
You ever notice the weird, gruesome sounding splattering sounds as the dress is coming out of the fax machine? That always confused/disturbed me.
i mean, it faxed a dress. that's not how fax machines tend to work.
though evil tends to be pretty hip to technology - sure, some pagan god living off of sacrifices in some thousand year old forest can do without it, but there's plenty of weird shit more than willing to take advantage of it.
Apparently now the room tweets it.
The room also uses Yahoo video calling, for the ultimate in techno-savy
Why did this make me laugh 😂 lol 😂
Given that all King works are 100% connected, it's pretty clear that the room was built from materials recovered from the Overlook Hotel. Stripped of most of it's spirits by Danny absorbing them, and having to build up it's strength again by tormenting and twisting new victims.
There is another possibility that the room contains an egg from Pennywise that was not destroyed. The Powers of the room seem to mimic Pennywise to a much smaller degree.
yeaaaaaaah. pretty clear
Galaxy Brain: both are right, making it even worse
@EmperorJuliusCaesar okay then.......
@EmperorJuliusCaesar ok, boomer
I went and watched this video, not knowing it’s gonna be 34 minutes... but I can’t stop now...
Lol same
Yup same
Wouldnt have realized if not for this comment haha
We've only just begun
gerlalu 66 I didn’t even know it was that long until I read your comment
I have to be completly honest with you...this is by far one of my favorite Stephen King's adaptations, 1408
It's such a sneaky masterpiece.
I went into it knowing nothing about it. Loved it
The Maniax iduyuhrh
Its not like there are so many good ones. My two favorites are this one and the mist
Before Mike gets to the room, I believe the elevator door opening by itself resembles Mike’s last chance to leave before going into 1408.
what about the guy that came to fix the roomtemeprature? mike had a chance to leave then too..
@@mymy-pc6zq the room seems to be an entity using the managers appearance as an avatar I think it knew he wasn't going to leave when he was there as he was to curious
@@mymy-pc6zqYou're assuming the repairman was actually real.
@@clockworkNateI assume he was. As he didn’t want to even step into the room. But since he just disappeared without a trace seems like it could be part of the room. Who knows.
@@Mikey-ym6okWhen Mike looks to see where the repairman went, he sees the repairman walking away. So we do see where the guy went. He was just fast to get away from the room lol
“But upon seeing the steep price of 8 dollars for peanuts he declares that the room might just be evil after all”
You’re so funny 😂
But he's still basically the second biggest character. His character is the only person other than the electrician to interact with Mike
BEER NUTS
Ah yes, the true villain... capitalism
Luc Germain ikr!? I’m so confused as to what that guy was tryna do here
@@TheCoolerChannel Comment came out of nowhere lmao
I AM TIRED OF THESE MOTHAFUCKING GHOSTS IN THIS MOTHAFUCKING ROOM
😆😆😆😆😆😆
There it is. I was looking for this one.
Was wondering when this was gonna pop up. XD
@RehlDregur the shielded In Snakes on a Plane Samuel L. Jackson said I'm sick and tired of these monkey fight snakes of this monday through friday train. (I think) which means I'm tired of these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane. He just basically redubbed it for this movie as a joke. I'm aware this could br a joke but my dumb ass wanted to point out to obvious
he could suddenly have a ghostbusters weapon to zap them
Samuel L. Jackson* "You don't wanna see that room"
Me* I DON'T REMEMBER ASKING YOU A GOD DAMN THING
I would have
Me: *It's free real estate*
The Theatrical ending was phenomenal. When I watched this movie for the first time and he woke up in the hospital I thought "Maybe it all was a hallucination like the room did previously and none of it was real. Maybe he was having a mental breakdown and we just watched the inner fight and turmoil." Movies have done similar things before after-all, but when the tape-recorder played and you hear the voice of the deceased, undeniable proof that it was real and he waded neck deep through hell, a very genuine chill ran down my back at the mere prospect of it.
Sam's character is a older British man in the book. A famous line goes:
"If a stuffy british man tells you to stay out of a room, you'll likely go in out of spite. When Sam ****ING Jackson tells you to stay out of the goddamned room, you at minimum consider it."
Hence why he's in the movie.
i had no clue and thats so good lmao
Yoooo i tooo just read the book
*Mike Enslin:* "Is 1408 a smoking room?
"
*Gerald Olin:* "As a matter of fact, it is. Yes."
*OH, THE IRONY 😂😂*
It's Enslin? My dumbass thought it was 'insulin' the entire time 😂😂
@@ayushi7822 *
@@ayushi7822 same
Wait I dont get the irony
@@armandogalindo7412 the room burns
Burn= smoke
John's performance was amazing. I used to think nicholas cage should've been the star, but John totally rocked it, especially the assault on the fridge lol.
Assault Lmao
Cage would have made sure nobody took this movie seriously ever.
John's good in these types of movies. He was really great in Identity, too.
It should have been Tommy Wisseau. Tommy Wisseau vs "The Room".
The concept of this movie genuinely terrifies me like i cant imagine-
Anything to do with fear, the unknown and indefiniteless make me shiver
I always thought the theatrical ending meant that he was still in the room, along with Lily now. Hearing his daughter's voice on the recorder with Lily hearing it too would indicate that not only he is still in the room, Lily is too.
yessssss this is what I thought too !! the only reason he survived is bc lily told the police he was still in there yet the room is the one that brought her to the hotel but why would it do that unless it wanted her to be apart of it too ? along with mike screaming ‘you can’t have her’ it seems like the room did want her too
I also had this thinking. When his daughter's voice came on and his wife dropped the box I was expecting the room to change. It didn't but I still took it as they were both there now.
I just finished watching the movie & reading comments but I think you guys are correct & the daughter said something like “ I want to stay with you & mommy” they won’t let me stay”which signifies the mother is in the room as well. It makes sense since the mom heard Katie on the tape as well, They are both in the room still. Possibly.
I think he's out, we do get flashes of writing on the walls saying burn me alive, I first thought "who would write that, burn ME alive? With all the suicides that rooms brings why is that one on the wall? It's for the room, one wall to end it is to burn it, also they seem to indicate he'll relive that hour forever in a loop, but we know 15 minutes before the next loop, his wife says she'll be there in about 15, when the next loop starts she's now 5 minutes away, showing that even with its time bending and reality bending its bubble is still in this universe so when he starts the fire the bubble pops and put them back
And I think the ending with the daughter was the entity's remnants to show it existed, because if it was just him rambling about what happened his wife would just think of him being theatrical and extra, but showing that interaction and only that, could be proof enough that it happened
1408 is by far my favorite King adaptation. The sailing scene gets me every time. Good physical effects from studios make all the difference
This and the Mist
Mine is this, the mist and the It with Curry. I love him.
Also from King: Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile
The one part that really freaked me out was when he went into the duct to try and get help from the lady next door. How they did the ghosts making them static-y looking was very unique too. This imo is the perfect modern horror movie.
If Samuel L Jackson doesn’t want him to go into the room and the rest of the staff is so afraid of the room who sent the postcard?
Ryker Linn the room
The evil entity living inside the room is my guess. If a famous author writes about the room people are going to want in. If he survives and writes about it, more victims. If he doesn't, well, nothing lost there.
I sent him the postcard.
The only thing that sucks about being this early, is not being able to scroll through the comments while you watch the video.
Pun Queen you have provided me the content to scroll through thank you
Your not missing much anyways, "ive never clicked on a video so fast" "is it christmas/my birthday?!" "I miss your long hair!" "Do (insert movie title here) next!!"
@@michaelhood2109 You're right. Thank you, good sir.
I always thought of 1408 as a doorway to hell, or a better description: An elevator through Dante's Inferno..
Thank you! I was peeved foundflix didnt pick up on this!
You should watch th-cam.com/video/UNllADlGIe8/w-d-xo.html
Abosolutly amazing analysis and makes perfect sense of your observation
It is absolutely 100% a retelling of dantes inferno. Every layer is hell is covered in order.
It's nazi code. Stephen King is alt-right. Whole movie was white supremacist propaganda if you think about it
Nick pardon
Tiny bit of trivia...
The "crazy hammer lady" was played by famed martial artist Benny "the jet" Urqidez.
John Cousack is a huge fan of his, and has even trained with him.
I'm sure got him the part
You’re legit a lifesaver when boredom kicks in, keep up the incredible work.
I watch youtube explanations and reviews of horror movies so that I can claim to have watched them to my loved ones. I am such a coward.
Same 😔
ayan A Yes. Yes very much
You need to watch this one its very good and not at all scary
ayan A me too. Not even because I’m scared but because a lot of these are so hard to find because they ain’t on Netflix or anything and I don’t want to rent em
you are not alone 😅😅
As an ex English professor, I can confidently say that Chris has the most impressive vocabulary that I have ever heard by a TH-camr
The best part of this movie imo was the blinded maid part:
"She spent only a few moments alone and when we opened it she was..."
"Dead?" He says sarcastly
"No, blind... she gouged her own eyes with a scissor"
“Ouch.”
I wonder what the room did to her
Laughing hysterically.
I love sarcastle
one small point that i always thought, to the outside world it was merely a few minutes, but who knows 1408 seemed to be able to manipulate the envoirnment, create memories the whole lot so why wouldnt it be able to manipulate time, in fact it kinda seems like it does, the whole scene where he thinks he gets out and goes to write the book leading to the destroying post office, seem like that would be something that takes longer than an hour, so i always thought that maid might have spent an hour in terms of the room but to the outside world it was minutes
I still love the psychological horror behind 1408!!
He's sad then happy then sad
How is it that Foundflix never whispers, does not add creepy music in the background, no jumpscares but just the cheer wording f the plot summary gives me the chills??? Brrrr
Haha youtuber go BRRRRRR
just noticed that this and Babadook have the same "Moral of the story"
you cant get rid of bad memories, just learn to live with them
56 likes. 56 deaths
3 years later...And I'm still about to blow your mind...
...What if The Babadook got placed in 1048 instead of the basement?
I remember being a kid and this movie traumatising me. I had no idea there even was a directors cut.
Damn where’s John Constantine when you need him?
I know this is just a movie explained but the part towards the end about having to live with the pain hit me hard. Two family members in my life that I considered close were murdered. One in 2015 and the other was a little over a week ago. It's so hard to live with that pain of losing someone. You can always be glad for what your remember but man....it's such a struggle. I'm still trying to figure out how to live with such violent deaths. I feel so stuck atm.
I hope that you found a way to cope with your terrible losses.
Stay strong, they will always be with you ❤️
When Samuel L Jackson offers you a fancy whiskey to stay out of a room....
Even when that fancy whisky is actually Cognac :)
@@j.samuelwaters81 Well.... shit.
@@j.samuelwaters81 does it even matter samuel l jackson handed it to you,so you must accept it
@@josephochoa9861 Indeed. You must respect The Jackson.
@@j.samuelwaters81 indeed we must all follow the advice and respect the jackson
Room: hAha You're tRaPped wiTh mE
MIke: NO U
The line his dad said to him is an ancient memento mori. It was a common grave inscription in ancient Rome as well as during the Renaissance in Italy
What's the line?
@@SheBizzler "I once was what you are and what I am you also will be" is the translation I learned about in Art History, it's on Massacio's "Holy Trinity", written in Latin on an altar that has a skeleton on it. Variations on the Latin phrase have popped up throughout history. Massacio probably got it from such a source, the Renaissance was all about gritty reboots of ancient Greece and Rome. It's a memento mori, something meant to keep people humbled by reminding them of death's inevitability. Fits in the movie pretty well I think :)
All's i wanna know is: _Did_ Mike eat those sweets that the Ghost left for him on his bed?
He did
They were laxatives. 1408 has an evil sense of humor.
@@krdiaz8026 The shit that comes out of you are the real chocolate. Daring you to eat it before it reaches the water on the toilet.
Lmao me to 😄
Plot twist- Sam Jackson put them there and they're full of hallucinogens and Mike was tripping balls. That's why the room looks normal between shots
I like to think Mike died on the beach and everything after was his transition to the next place. If you think about it, he spent years trying to find “the place” that he has been looking for. His last place just happens to be what he was looking for, plus he finds his goal in reaching his daughter.
Damn that’s a good point. The most haunted place a person can experience is the limbo before finding “what’s next.” Yikes, that’s goosebump worthy!
I have a thought that he is still in the 'bed and breakfast' room at the beginning. If you listen to the couple at the desk tell stories of what happen(ed), its earily semilair to what the hotal room is doing to him.
The director’s ending was selling us on the idea of the ‘tortured soul’ where you can only find redemption in death
The ending in which he survives and his wife hears their daughter’s voice on the recorder is *the* ending; I refuse to accept any others.
John Cusack acted his rear off for this movie. The dude basically did the entire thing by himself and he absolutely killed it. The guy is one heckuva actor.
Agreed. Plus Samuel Jackson’s performance was great too. I really like how they got John Cusack and Samuel L in this together. The director’s cut just feels like overkill with a weaker resolution for shock value.
Our boy Mike after going through hell in that room for a whole hour, simply told the room to go to hell and saying that the room was a 10/10 skulls, who cares about Steve Rogers taking on Thanos, this is a true badass.
Hey FoundFlix! This is John and I was hoping you could do stephen king's thinner! I would greatly love to see that video! Thank you and have a great day!
joe
I was just watching that the other day on amazon prime. Ive seen it years ago but i always wondered since he killed his daughter by mistake, did he just loose it and kill himself by eating the pie out of guilt?
Christrulesall2 I never understood the ending rlly
@@seriousnesstv7902 When he lets Dr. Mikey in to join him for a slice of pie, he smiles as he closes the door.The guilt just consumed him.How could you live with yourself after that? He just killed his daughter indirectly. There is just no coming back from that. He had nothing to live for so he ate the pie as well. Its all left up to the imagination, but thats my interpretation.
Christrulesall2 I really wish his daughter hadn’t died! I felt so sad!
This movie is just called 1408?
Not Room 1408?
Is my life a lie?
WixkedLovy
Its weird because I remember commercials saying
Room 1408
no, you're right. I looked it up on Amazon and it's just 1408
Our brains are faulted thats why we cant even trust our own memories.
@LuvJayallday I think you mean Mandela effect.
Mandela effect.... CERN is in full swing babe... Hold on to ya butts.... Gonna be a bumpy ride on Memory Lane
Oh I know HP Lovecraft
I just always find it funny in the fact that whenever he describes an object, he goes into every single detail. But whenever he goes into the monsters, he says it's indescribable.
Mike: this room is fake
Room 1408: *haunt mike*
Mike: *pikachu shock face*
1408: the ultimate therapeutic rehabilitation experience.
*the room always wins*
That moment when Lovecraftian room tries to prank you with your dead daughter but you set it on fire. Not cool, bro.
Lil' Connor Peterson r/woooosh r/ihavereddit
Love this movie, one of my favorite stories ever, but there's a small detail here that was not mentioned. When Mike is about to send the book at the post office and the people start destroying the place, showing that he never escaped the room, the camera pays attention to one of the walls for like three seconds, there is small inscription that said something like "burn it", that clues him into burning the room later. I always wondered who wrote that, couldn't be the room, would not make sense for the room to tell him how to kill it, was it the ghosts of the people killed by the room or his daugther who left that message there to help him? or was it Mike own subconscious that came with the idea and the room copied into the wall by accident? guess I'll never know
I thought that the room actually despised its own existence, and was lashing out at its inhabitants as a result.
So the writing on the bare bricks (symbolising the room's subconscious, or just deep within its mind) with no wallpaper (honest, no facade) was the room asking to be put out of its misery.
It said "Burn me alive"
@@brickmatt6776 that’s a fascinating can of worms!
No, it says burn me alive
Wasn't Katie's ghost saying something like that too, couldn't she have wrote it.
nobody:
stephan king: yoooo what if the hotel room was the killer and there isn’t any actual ghosts???
Anyone else realize Jake had to go through a place just like 1408 in the Gunslinger series? I love how everything is connected in his dark universe. And at the center of it all is the Dark Tower, slowly decaying...
Hell when he gets to the Tower itself, it acts like a sentient mind reading being itself...
U think u hot but u aint all that lil homie matter of fact u aint shit dog
I actually have a copy of this movie with the theatrical ending. I didn't know there was another ending until I saw this video.
*You missed several key aspect of this movie:*
*1.* During Mike and Gerald's first encounter, Mike asks Olin: "Is 1408 a smoking room?
"
, to which Olin replies: ""As a matter of fact, it is, yes."
- somewhat of a foreshadowing.
*2.* Room 1408 gave Mike two opportunities to leave - the elevator opening just as Mike gets closer within the corridor to 1408, and when the door is allowed to be opened for the handyman.
*3.* Mike may have had the Shine - aspects of it at least - given how he was able to withstand over an hour of such torment without going mad. Such suspected candidates would be members of the Losers' Club, John Coffey, David from Desperation, Duddits from Dreamcatcher, David Drayton from The Mist etc ~
How did David Drayton have it?
@@kevinfanning8027 *Due to his precognition ~*
@@BartAllen his what? When was that in the movie?
@@kevinfanning8027 *The Mist
Duddits was an alien so it may a well be racial powers for his case.
How did his daughters voice on the recorder serve as proof of life after death, if her voice was simply an illusion manifested by the hotel room.
Damn
Maybe she was the only thing real about the room considering that she was the only so called manifestation of the room that didn't try to physically harm him💁♀️
This, to me, sounds like the room, Mike being tortured, and leaving with the proof is a representation of how different people can experience grief.
I remember this movie years ago, definitely a wild ride.
A couple of things: 1) I think his daughter was really there. Her spirit. I think that because she said "It won't let me stay" when he was begging her to stay with him. I saw that room as him going through the 9 circles of hell. Hell brought her back, just to take her away, so he could suffer more. 2) I don't think he ever left the room even in ending where he "survived", remember his tape caught the room saying "even when you leave this room, you never leave this room", which I took as he never left the room. I like the ending better where he died because he got to be with his daughter at the end, his ghost never having to suffer again, while also saving his wife.
I think he's out, we do get flashes of writing on the walls saying burn me alive, I first thought "who would write that, burn ME alive? With all the suicides that rooms brings why is that one on the wall? It's for the room, one wall to end it is to burn it, also they seem to indicate he'll relive that hour forever in a loop, but we know 15 minutes before the next loop, his wife says she'll be there in about 15, when the next loop starts she's now 5 minutes away, showing that even with its time bending and reality bending its bubble is still in this universe so when he starts the fire the bubble pops and put them back
And I think the ending with the daughter was the entity's remnants to show it existed, because if it was just him rambling about what happened his wife would just think of him being theatrical and extra, but showing that interaction and only that, could be proof enough that it happened
Next should be The Number 23 with Jim Carrey. Great movie, very serious for a comedy actor.
Corey Sprinkel great movie loved it
The book honestly was more creepy in the sense that the room is made out to be a strange alien lovecraftian entity, not just a spirit or a haunted room. While the protagonist does survive he is rendered with physical and psychological trauma.
One thing that I find particularly interesting is the presence of “orange yellow lights” in the room, one of which after the protagonist manages to leave; scars him with fear. I believe it’s a reference to the “dead lights” from another of King’s stories IT; whose form is said to be of withering orange lights from the reaches of dark space in the universe outside our own.
Interesting stuff.
This movie never implied it was a spirit or possession thing. In the words of Samuel L. Jackson: "it's nothing like that. It's just an evil fucking room."
We need more people like Mike in ghost/supernatural movies. Where as soon as weird shit starts happening (that they purposely sought after for) they start freaking out and become defenseless. Yet Mike actually does stuff and actively and creatively tries to figure his way out of the room and keep his wits about him.
Honestly, I often find your reviews & the subsequent comments to be more thought provoking than the movies themselves. One point of note: the bottle he's given isn't whiskey but rather a fine cognac. Even more, it's label reads "Les Cinquante-Sept Deces" which doesn't actually exist but translates to "The 57th Death" or "The 57 Deaths." The current total of deaths for the room stood at 56.
Samuel L Jackson barely appears in the movie. But of course the studio needs the movie so they slap him on the poster anyways
Top Billing is Top Billing
You gotta do whatcha gotta do
He played his role extremely well though
Lol, I feel you but.. It's just good business, like click bait 😒
He’s an integral character
This was actually the first horror movie I’ve ever watched, it holds a special place in my heart!
Still my number one favorite horror film personally.
From the set design (even as the room becomes trashed and frozen, too)
To the acting (Olin and Enslin talking in the office being the best dialogue exchange for sure)
To the themes, the scares, the audio and imagery.
Such a great, honestly underrated film.
The theatrical ending will forever be the best. Seeing Mike come out from the experience a better man, having made himself whole. As well as the horrifying final implication that everything he’d encountered in 1408 was very much real, as evidenced by his tape recorder that Lily listens too as well, further proving him right as he now is a believer.
The lady with the hammer is actually long time friend and kickboxing trainer of John Kusack named Benny “the jet” Urquidez. A respected and world renowned kickboxer during the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s.
Yep your right that’s cool I just looked him up
I actually had a haunted hotel guide.My bf at the time tried to stay in a specific room and when we got there, they said we couldn't. So glad to see a new video.
Well in real life if somthing is haunted they won't let you stay there. People getting hurt is bad for bussness.
Personally I like the theatrical ending. Hearing the daughter on the recorder was the best ending.
Also I really liked how it followed dante's inferno in a round about way
Personally I'd love to see a prequel. We already knows what happens to the room and what happened to everyone who stayed there but I really enjoy time bending movies like this. Oculus is one of my other favorite movies of all time, evil objects that do stuff like that freak me out way more than demons. Demon movies are way too overrated
Oculus was excellent
I’m glad I saw this in the theatre cause the theatrical ending is *way* more satisfying than the directors cut
I’m so happy I had a bootleg copy cuz I totally only have seen the theatrical end 😂😂😂😂
“It’s not like that, it’s an evil fucking room” is such a Samuel L Jackson sentence
Ghost: Spooky cho-
Me: *Throws the chocolate down throat* GIVE ME MORE I DEMAND IT
Ghost: *Spawns more chocolate*
ME: MORE MORE
Ghost: Dude you need to calm dow-
ME : I REQUIRE THE CHOCOLATE NOW
And now the weather
I REQUIRE FOOD AND LUKEWARM WEATHER OH HEAVEN BLESSED ROOM
Did you say chocolate? Chocolate? CHOCOLATE!!!
That’s how you beat the room. Just demand more chocolate no matter what happens.
Ghost: Floods the entire room with liquid chocolate.
Oompah, Loompah, Doompaty-Doo... What do you get when you guzzle down sweets?
You drown. End of movie. Next!
One of the better Stephen king adaptations... when I saw it in theaters it scared me a bit.
I'm so happy other people find the fridge scene as memorable as i do.
One of very few decent PG-13 horror movies.
Is Happy Death Day one of them?
AlfonzoG_YT don’t think so
@@So-calledOjsimpson I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying I disagree and believe Jessica Rothe is one of the best horror actresses of the 21st century
AlfonzoG_YT I meant I don’t find happy death day a horror film
@@So-calledOjsimpson Well, yea. It's more of a romcom with horror elements
A found flix review in 2019 about a movie call 1408 released in 2007. Thatsa lotta numbers
Almost funny
@@OZZOZZ thanks i can put that in my resume
Yeah, I wish they would have released it in 1408 :/ Waiting until 2007 feels like a missed opportunity
@@gallifrey_falls i think it was because SLJ was a slave at the time so he couldn't work on the film and the director felt that the movie would be incomplete without him.
That part when he lost it on the mini fridge ,I always crack up hard lol!
SCP: 1408
Object Class: Euclid
Containment Procedure: *DON'T GO IN THAT ROOM MOTHERFUCKER!*
Description: *IT NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION, DON'T SAT IN THAT ROOM MOTHERFUCKER!*
The one ☝️ room out of the entire SCP Facility no one ever enters.... except Class D }:)
@@jackthorton10 That and 002
Dr. Bright is not allowed to save money by housing D Class in 1408.
SCP fans are the best.
Nah, I'd stay the night.
There is one other alternate ending that uses elements of both the endings.
Mike dies from his fire injuries. Afterwards, Olin remarks "Well done, Enslin. Well done." Instead of the funeral scene, the sounds of a funeral are dubbed over establishing shots of Los Angeles. Lily and Sam sort through Mike's effects in Lily's new home. Sam says, "Well, at least he went out in a blaze." Lily gives him a look of disapproval. Sam returns to his New York office, sorts through his mail, and discovers the manuscript that Mike wrote about Room 1408, written after Mike thought he had awakened from a dream. As Sam reads the story, audio from Mike's experiences in the room is heard. In a final scene, Sam's office doors slam shut and Mike's father's voice says, "As I was, you are. As I am, you will be." Copied from Wikipedia.
This room is as brutal as Ricks ship from Rick and Morty, bringing someones dead kid back just to have the kid die again in front of them. No mercy
protect summer
I would recommend watching Real Dimensional Pictures look into this movie and book, he dose such a good job, it made me love this movie even more:
'1408: The Philosophical Depths That Horror Can Reach'
Uncanny Unicorn Yes Real Dimensional Pictures video was AMAZING. I actually just watched that a couple days ago. It really is an excellent and extremely well thought out video.
I like that a "good" ending is available for those of use with souls that are not dead. And a "dark" ending for the rest of you sociopaths that love misery.
I was wondering why anyone like the theatrical ending when it makes less sense
@Brittany Bennett how so? Is it childish to hope for dawn after a dark night? To hope that something comes from all the pain and misery?
Well if that makes me childish, then I am content with that. And if your sad existence is what being an adult means to you, I pity you.
Take your self righteous bullshit somewhere else you wet towel.
Duality! The devils fave...
@Brittany Bennett Go fuck yourself narrowminded idiot
@Jeremiah Freeman
Lmao “wet towel” that’s perfect
When Samuel L Jackson does EVERYTHING in his power to not get you in too a room, You better believe him.
About the movie: I didnt like too much the directors cut ending. So thanks for the theatrical ending👍.
What happened at the theatrical ending?
@@faithgoga3983 bro its in the video
He should have called the Avengers
The theatrical ending is infinitely superior. The director was wrong to kill off mike and thereby undo all the journey by letting his pain consume him completely and trying to have a downer ending simply to break the trend.
He was with his daughter. The director was not wrong.
I dont mind the ending like that but yeah i prefer the theatrical where we see how much hes changed and how his wife gets to hear the recording.
I like both. One faithful to the book, the other a less hopeful, but still happy ending.
If Gerald legitimately was trying to keep Mike from staying in the room, who sent him the postcard saying stay out? They establish the room can't hurt you until you actually go in.
plot device
When he complains about the temperature, he mentioned to the operator that the room is on fire. I like how that kinda foreshadowed the end
I actually always thought that the old book he wrote "the long road home" was about his own dad since we get to see a glimpse of him losing his mind while the protagonist is stuck in his room. I dunno it just feels like it was a nod to his old OLD life with his dad and the problems it gave him just to be amplified by his daughter passing..
Same. In the version of the movie I have, the one and only time the father is seen is when he is shown in the bathroom of 1408. The interaction between the two of them made me feel they had little to no love for one another. Even after watching this video, I still like to think that the book is about Mike's relationship with his father.
Hey you should do an ending explained for the Robert De Niro film Hide And Seek
Unknown Echo I love that film!
Unknown Echo yesssssssss
is that the one were the mom dies
Omg my mom, aunt, and I watched this and when the movie played the song "it's only just begun" we all screamed WHAT!!!
I actually think The Long Road Home is about Mike's relationship with his father. Based upon how he talks about it its a very old novel, possibly one of his first. And the movie doesn't paint him as being a bastard to his daughter at all.
Wish I could like this 100× fead serious. This is my favorite review and movie.
Keep it the awesome job my dudes!
Wow, I've seen the movie several times and boy am I glad that this is the first time that I hear about "director's cut ending." On my DVD ut has the theatrical one.
Yeah, the director's cut ending sucked in my opinion. Luckily I saw the theatrical ending my first view which was more impactful and better.
I agree. I was a teenager when I first saw this movie (theatrical ending) and my hair stood on its ends on that part where they listened to that tape record. I prefer that one too. I just watched the alternate ending and it's really lame
Yeah me too. Hell I didn't even know the director's cut ending existed.
I saw it in the theater in 2004. Loved it then mistakenly a couple years later not knowing about the different cuts and accidentally bought the directors cut, and hated it cause the ending. But just the other day I watched again on Roku channel and it has the theatrical cut!!! I was so happy