wonderful movie

Rating: 10/10 (23 March 2016)

1408 is a wonderful movie. The plot is a man named Mike Enslin goes to supposedly haunted places for a living and writes horror books based on his experiences. He has never found evidence of the paranormal and is convinced that there is none. He finds out about stories of bad things that happened in room 1408 at a hotel in New York City and decides he wants to stay a night in that room. After a while of everything seeming normal, weird things start to happen. The movie is very scary and creepy. After Mike gets to the hotel, the manager, unlike other people where he stays who are happy for him to stay in the bedroom or hotel room or whatever, DOESN'T want him to stay to the degree where he begs him not to. This is slightly funny and Mike dismisses him as either crazy or messing with him. There is a point in the movie early during the supernatural parts where Mike is trapped in the room and he sees someone in a room in another building directly across from him and yells at the guy and signals for help and the guy starts mimicking him and it comes to appear as if the guy has become Mike's reflection in a mirror. This seems more the case when you see the guy looks like Mike. This seems like Mike was slipped some kind of very powerful hallucinatory drug by Gerald Olin, the hotel manager, and that is an early part of a period of extreme hallucinations. Maybe. Maybe not. The theatrical ending, which is the ending I like best, has Mike playing a tape to his wife that has their dead daughter Katie talking to him which shocks her. Maybe. It might also be that Mike's wife went into the room without that being shown in the movie and the room trapped her and what she thought she experienced after that was an illusion created by the room for her and it was revealing that it had her and wasn't going to let her go by having the fake room Mike play the tape of the real Mike saying I've got you now. I'm not going to let you go when he was talking to Katie. Although I don't know how Mike's wife would ever get into the room because there's a scene where she's outside of the hotel and sees fire exploding out of the windows of 1408.