Room 1408 is an infamously haunted hotel room that is possessed by a mysterious and vicious dark force, and it serves as the titular main setting in the short story 1408 by legendary novelist Stephen King (both as the 14th story in King's 1999 entitled book collection "Everything's Eventual and as the 3rd tale in his 2002 audiobook collection titled Blood and Smoke). There is also a film entitled 1408 based on the short story of the same name with the same possessed apartment.
56 people died in Room 1408, most of them by suicide. Presumably, the room cannot kill people itself. Instead it tries to drive it's victims crazy so that they will do it themselves, though several of the deaths have appeared as natural or accidental. It appears that the room has a consciousness, as distraught skeptical paranormal debunker Mike Enslin, who himself was a book writer long ago, talks with the room over the phone at the end of the movie. When this happened it used the voice of a hotel operator. The room is situated on the 13th floor of the hotel owned by the Yasuko Corporation. Although not all it's victims are revealed, some of the most recent are. A few years ago, a young maid from El Salvador was locked in the room's bathroom. She survived but was blinded due to the fact she had gouged her eyes out with a pair of scissors. Mr. Kevin O' Malley, a sewing machine salesman who cut his own throat, was the first victim. Mr. Benjamin Johnsons was a factory owner who jumped from the window. Mr. Grady Miller drowned in his soup. David Hyde, a manic-depressive orthodontist slit his wrists and cut off his genitals. In the 95 year since the Dolphin hotel was built in 1912, 56 deaths have occurred, including 7 jumpers, 4 overdoses, 5 hangings, 3 mutilations, 2 stranglings, a heart attack, a stroke and a drowning. The room was finally destroyed when Mike realized that while he cannot interact with the room from the inside, those outside of the room can. Mike makes a Molotov cocktail with a bottle of alcohol he got from the Dolphin Hotel's owner Gerald Olin and sets the room ablaze so fire fighters would be able to break down the door and quickly pull him out so the room is unable to affect them with their tricks, while everyone in the entire hotel have immediately evacuated. After his ordeal in Room 1408, Enslin gave up writing altogether. He has acquired various physical and psychological problems stemming from his brief stay in the room. He notes to himself (as Olin expressed earlier) that there are no ghosts in 1408, because ghosts were once merely humans, while the entity he encountered was horrifically inhuman. In the end, Enslin sleeps with his lights on, has removed all his house's phones, and always draws the curtains before dark; he cannot stand the shade of yellow-orange at sunset that reminds him of the light inside that infamous hotel room. Room 1408 has the ability to manipulate time in great lengths. The time on the clock before Mike Enslin "escaped" the room after it was flooded and he woke up on the beach was about 14 minutes and 30 seconds and the time inside the post office's clock right before he was sent back was at 4 minutes and 56 seconds, meaning Mike was only "out of the room" for only 9 minutes and 34 seconds when it seemed like he was out for several weeks, possibly several months. The name of the bottle Olin gives Mike is "Les Cinquante Sept DĂ©cĂšs". Translated into English, it reads "The Fifty Seven Deaths", with Mike being intended to be the fifty seventh victim of 1408. It is entirely unknown as to who sent Mike Enslin the post card from the Dolphin Hotel to him in the first place. It is doubtful that Olin sent him it since he was so adam ant for him to not go in and the room itself seems to only care about people in the room and those who might have gone to the room, such as Mike's wife, so it is most likely not 1408 either.
The number 13 appears throughout this movie. Coincidence, maybe. However the number 13 is commonly seen as an unlucky number. The fear of the number 13 is called Triskaidekaphobia a phobia so strong that makes people avoid going out on Friday the 13th. The fear of the number 13 may seem frivolous, however 13% of people said they feel uneasy with the number 13. Some even suffer from acute anxiety when they come across the number. Hotels and most high rise buildings over 12 stories, correspond to the 13th floor paranormal phenomenon by skipping the 13th floor. Many restaurants also wonât have a table 13.
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