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1408

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1408	label	1408
1408	page	FourteenOhEight
1408	comment	1408 is a 2007 Psychological Horror film directed by Mikael Hafstrom and starring John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson, based on a Stephen King short story by the same name.Cusack plays horror writer Mike Enslin, who specializes in investigating supposedly haunted houses and other sites of supernatural activity, which he has documented previously in books like Ten Haunted Graveyards and Ten Haunted Mansions. However, these investigations have yet to bear fruit in the form of confirmable sightings, leaving him pessimistic and jaded.Through an anonymous recommendation, Enslin learns about the Dolphin Hotel, in which no one has been able to stay even a single night (or even one hour) in one particular room - the eponymous 1408. According to his research, everyone who tries has committed suicide or died from anything from heart attacks to drowning.The manager, Gerald Olin (Jackson), tries to warn him away from staying in that room, to no avail; Enslin is unconvinced by his warnings and tales, preferring to see things for himself. After all, what's the worst that could happen?The short story has its own work page.
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1408 / int_105d50b1	type	Psychological Torment Zone
1408 / int_105d50b1	comment	Psychological Torment Zone: What the room does to anyone who comes in. Enslin is taunted by memories of his dead daughter and his failed marriage, his father in a nursing home, and just generally tormented by the room's Reality Warper abilities.
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1408 / int_106f1a77	type	A Form You Are Comfortable With
1408 / int_106f1a77	comment	A Form You Are Comfortable With: For the most part, the room seems content to slowly drive its inhabitants to the brink of madness through slowly escalating its use of incomprehensible alterations to the room or attacking their inner demons. But every so often, it adds a little variety by dispensing with the ambiguity and communicates directly either via a telephone call or, in one case, using the form of Olin as an avatar and conversing with Mike "face to face".
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1408 / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
1408 / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Mike wanted to avoid contacting Lily while he was in New York. But when he's in a desperate situation, he calls her. While at first dismissive and annoyed, she quickly takes it seriously and calls the police. Unfortunately, the police say the room is empty. Lily is desperate to help Mike, which the Room takes advantage of and creates a doppelganger who begs her to come.
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1408 / int_13a499b8	type	Diabolus ex Nihilo
1408 / int_13a499b8	comment	Diabolus ex Nihilo: The movie gives zero explanation of the crazy guy with the hammer Mike keeps seeing. A brief shot implies he's one of the men from the painting of the ship at the sea.
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1408 / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
1408 / int_141a6acb	comment	"We've Only Just Begun", the song that becomes Enslin's Madness Mantra by proxy, is also played in the insane asylum where John Trent winds up after the events of In the Mouth of Madness (but at the beginning of the actual movie).
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1408 / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
1408 / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: As mentioned in the description above, Enslin insisted on staying in the room.
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1408 / int_16364a29	type	Evil Sounds Deep
1408 / int_16364a29	comment	Evil Sounds Deep: At the end, the room has this voice when he speaks through the phone taunting Mike.
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1408 / int_19a5d773	type	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!
1408 / int_19a5d773	comment	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Nonhuman version here. Until weird things start happening, 1408 looks like any random (if very nice) hotel room.
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1408 / int_1ae27a74	type	Fridge Horror
1408 / int_1ae27a74	comment	Fridge Horror: Invoked and discussed by Mike as he settles into the room and prepares his investigation.
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1408 / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
1408 / int_1e12b5b7	comment	Lawful Stupid: Enslin uses an old civil rights law to coerce Mr. Olin to let him stay in room 1408 despite the latter's very pointed requests that he not go in there and providing detailed files on the victims as proof that it's too dangerous. However, since Enslin ignores his warnings, Olin is forced to cooperate or otherwise open the hotel to a lawsuit. It doesn't help Olin's case that the owners of the hotel are blithely denying the obvious safety issues of the room, which would make it incredibly easy for Enslin's lawyers to argue discrimination in court.
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1408 / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
1408 / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: After his narrow return from his failed Air Vent Escape, Mike immediately makes a beeline for the fridge while muttering "alcohol" under his breath. Unfortunately, the room has long since stopped bothering to be subtle with its machinations and doesn't even allow him this minor reprieve, creating an illusion of Olin taunting him about how he has no one but himself to blame for his situation when he opens the fridge. Luckily Mike still had the whiskey the real Olin had given him and, underlying how badly he's unravelling, he doesn't even bother with a cup and swigs several gulps straight from the bottle.
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1408 / int_1fb0f07b	type	Horror Struck
1408 / int_1fb0f07b	comment	Horror Struck: Despite Enslin's occupation as an author who writes about his experiences with supernatural places, he is a skeptic and expects a normal stay in 1408. He even blows off the manager's warnings as an attempt to build the mystique of the hotel. To his horror, he soon realizes that the room is worse than he could have possibly imagined.
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1408 / int_1ff4f744	type	Inn Security
1408 / int_1ff4f744	comment	Inn Security: "Even if you check out, you can never leave..."
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1408 / int_20215dc6	type	Primal Fear
1408 / int_20215dc6	comment	Primal Fear: Notably on the Heights and falling part... And the "Spectre of Death" part as well.
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1408 / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
1408 / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: Olin is trying to stop Enslin from entering a deadly room, but he makes it clear he's not doing this out of the goodness of his heart: he doesn't want to have to deal with another dead guest.
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1408 / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
1408 / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: The torments the room inflicts on Enslin are downright slapstick at first, but still quite threatening.
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1408 / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
1408 / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Mike's habit of keeping a cigarette handy for emergencies. At the beginning of the movie, Enslin receives a bottle of cognac from Olin. This is later used to make the molotov cocktail to destroy the room.
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1408 / int_231c34d2	type	Suddenly Significant Rule
1408 / int_231c34d2	comment	Suddenly Significant Rule: After Enslin tries to book room 1408 and is told it is unavailable, he consults with his agent and an attorney who confirm that due to a civil rights law, the hotel must allow him to stay in any room he requests, as long as it's unoccupied. It appears that Olin is familiar with this law, because despite his many attempts to dissuade Enslin from staying in the room, he never outright forbids it and eventually hands over the key.
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1408 / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
1408 / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The original story has him in the room for about seventy minutes before he sets his shirt on fire (according to the text: it seems like it would be more like fifteen or twenty). The movie also expands more on Mike's motivations and what his life was like outside of ghost-hunting, and of course this is used to twist the knife further during his stay.
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1408 / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
1408 / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Enslin believes himself to be this: he doesn't believe in the supernatural, claiming even if it was real, there isn't a God to protect them from it. He even wears a hat at one point with the words "Paranoia is just total awareness". In comparison, Olin is definitely this. He decided after the 4th death under his watch to have the room sealed and forbade any guests to check into it. He has 1408 serviced once a month, under his direct supervision, with maids working in pairs and the door kept open at all times. He tells Enslin that he treats the room as if it were filled with toxic gas, and won't even go near it unless he has to. Some of the staff at the hotel are also fully aware of the dangers of room 1408. The mechanic sent up to fix the thermostat flat out refuses to enter the room, talks Mike through the steps while remaining outside the door and is already down the hallway the second the thermostat is fixed.
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1408 / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
1408 / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Enslin's marriage fell apart after his daughter, Katie, died of cancer. He couldn't cope with the loss and took up ghost hunting after abandoning his wife so he can regain his faith in the afterlife and reunite with her. The theatrical ending has Enslin and his ex-wife get back together after the experience with 1408.
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1408 / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
1408 / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Non-human variant. The room looks very nice and comfortable and it even makes some chocolates appear on the bed like it wanted to say welcome to Mike. This is before revealing its true malevolent personality.
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1408 / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
1408 / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Replace "evil hotel room" with "disgraced opera singer's home" and you have Magnetic Rose from Katsuhiro Otomo's Memories.
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1408 / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
1408 / int_294ed981	comment	By way of Bilingual Bonus: The bottle Olin gives to Mike is named Les Cinquante Sept DÃ©cÃ¨s, which means "The fifty-seven deaths." We learn there have been 56 deaths in 1408. Guess who's number 57.
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1408 / int_2b2c66c3	type	Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor
1408 / int_2b2c66c3	comment	Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Implied. Some of the torments the room puts Enslin through are downright slapstick, and the sheer comedic timing of some of it is too good to be an accident on the room's part. It might not have a face to laugh with, but it's obvious that it finds the whole thing to be absolutely hilarious.
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1408 / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
1408 / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: The room itself is a sadistic Genius Loci who loves to torture his victims both physically and mentally until they're driven to madness and suicide apparently just for the heck of it. It also loves to make them relive their personal tragedies as he does with Mike by showing him his dying daughter.
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1408 / int_2d92c43c	type	Little "No"
1408 / int_2d92c43c	comment	Little "No": "Your wife will be here soon, Mr Enslin. We'll send her right up!"
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1408 / int_2ddddebf	type	Hostile Weather
1408 / int_2ddddebf	comment	Hostile Weather: The temperature in the room keeps changing to either hot or cold extremes to mess with Enslin. It eventually starts snowing, forcing him to huddle around an improvised campfire for warmth.
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1408 / int_2e10c4ab	type	Missing Floor
1408 / int_2e10c4ab	comment	Missing Floor: The corporation running the Dolphin Hotel believes that 13 Is Unlucky, so they pretend there's no 13th floor. Hence Floor 13 is re-numbered as 14, putting the room of death on the appropriate level (with digits that also add to 13).
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1408 / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
1408 / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: The room keeps asking Enslin if he wants to take advantage of the hotel's "express check out system".
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1408 / int_34bd7be2	type	Super Drowning Skills
1408 / int_34bd7be2	comment	Super Drowning Skills: While Mr. Olin elaborates to Mike about the gruesome death record of room 1408, he remarks that one person who stayed in the room died by drowning in his chicken soup. Even Mike is momentarily befuddled at how he managed that.
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1408 / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
1408 / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Basically everything the room does to Mike is this like showing him her dying daughter and then causing her to turn to dust in Mike's arm.
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1408 / int_38869708	type	The Precarious Ledge
1408 / int_38869708	comment	The Precarious Ledge: Mike tries to escape The Room by climbing out onto the thin, windy ledge and shimmying into the next room over's window, only to discover that there are no other windows, only an infinite sheer brick wall. He turns back, ending up in a Literal Cliffhanger thanks to the ghost of a woman committing suicide by throwing herself out the window.
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1408 / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
1408 / int_3aec9e5e	comment	In comparison, Olin is definitely this. He decided after the 4th death under his watch to have the room sealed and forbade any guests to check into it. He has 1408 serviced once a month, under his direct supervision, with maids working in pairs and the door kept open at all times. He tells Enslin that he treats the room as if it were filled with toxic gas, and won't even go near it unless he has to.
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1408 / int_3bfa8d6	type	Fair-Play Villain
1408 / int_3bfa8d6	comment	Fair-Play Villain: Downplayed, but the room does seemingly give Mike a chance to leave at the beginning, leading him back to the elevator he just came from despite him walking in a straight line, and opening its doors in invitation. Unfortunately Mike doesn't take the hint until it's far too late.
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1408 / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
1408 / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Both the theatrical and Director's Cut endings have this: The theatrical ending has Enslin burn down 1408, destroying it completely and escaping his ordeal. He reunites with Lily and moves in with her, finally moving on with a better writing career. While playing his old burnt tape recorder, it plays the recording of when Enslin reunited with Katie, shocking Lily at the realization that the events of 1408 weren't really in his mind. The Director's Cut has Enslin die, but destroy 1408 in the fire. Olin tries to deliver Enslin's items to Lily at his funeral, but fails to do so when attempting to explain that Enslin's actions destroyed the Room. While in his car and hearing the recording of Enslin's encounter with Katie, Olin encounters Enslin's charred ghost, but chalks it up to his imagination. The film then ends with Enslin's spirit in 1408, before being called by Katie and walking to the door and fading away, the sound of a door slamming shut.
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1408 / int_421a2df5	type	Mysterious Note
1408 / int_421a2df5	comment	Mysterious Note: The postcard that starts it all. Really mysterious, since who sent it remains unknown, and Enslin never bothers to ask Olin about it.
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1408 / int_424feb18	type	That Was Not a Dream
1408 / int_424feb18	comment	That Was Not a Dream: 1408 is such a bastard that it let Mike think he'd been out for a week or more before informing him, nope, you're still here.
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1408 / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
1408 / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Mike is oddly nonchalant about taking a Molotov to the room knowing full well at the time he was likely to die himself. But a huge amount to this could have stemmed from the fact The Room was smug enough to threaten to take his ex-wife.
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1408 / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
1408 / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: The plot only happens because of Enslin's bone-headed insistence on spending a night in Room 1408 and ignoring Mr. Olin's many, many warnings and attempts to dissuade him. Olin even offers Enslin access to all his files on the room's macabre history and suggests that Enslin photograph room 1404 with its identical layout, making the entirely valid point that Enslin's readers would never know the difference; Enslin refuses because he wants it to be "authentic". By the time Enslin realizes his mistake, it's too late for him. Or maybe Mike could have simply let the door open since the room apparently can't do anything as long as it stays that way. Olin prievously said that he's very strictly about it when the room is cleaned.
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1408 / int_47325888	type	Latex Perfection
1408 / int_47325888	comment	Latex Perfection: The final nightmare sequence features the best variation ever, executed by the room itself.
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1408 / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
1408 / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Enslin in the director's cut - he survives in the original short story. The room itself in both cuts. In the short story, it's still in good shape by the end — if rather non-Euclidean at times.
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1408 / int_4a5fcde	type	Adaptational Alternate Ending
1408 / int_4a5fcde	comment	Adaptational Alternate Ending: The short story ends on a far more cynical note than the movie, with Mike Enslin setting himself on fire rather than the room to escape its horrible influence. He survives with extensive third degree burns, but he lives the rest of his life alone and in fear. His tapes are also completely worthless and don't convince anyone of anything. Everything indicates that the evil room will simply continue to claim victims despite Mr. Olin's efforts to contain it. The film has three endings, none resembling the one in the book: The theatrical version has Mike setting the room on fire to destroy it, getting saved by firemen and finding a tape recorder with his dead daughter's voice on it as proof that the room is supernatural. He listens to it with his wife just before the movie ends. A first alternate ending has Mike still setting the room on fire as well, but dying alongside it, then Sam reading the manuscript of the book 1408 he wrote before the movie ends. Finally, the director's cut has Mike also setting the room on fire and also dying, but this time, it's Olin who listens to the tape with the dead daughter's voice.
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1408 / int_4a8d9d4d	type	Non Sequitur Environment
1408 / int_4a8d9d4d	comment	Non Sequitur Environment: The room changes itself many times to unsettle Enslin, such as the bathroom being replaced by a larger one where his father sits alone, the windows being replaced with walls, and the fridge opening into Mr. Olin's office.
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1408 / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
1408 / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: Enslin gets a massive case of the giggles as the room burns around him. Olin also mentions that the maid who was accidentally locked in 1408's bathroom briefly and gouged her eyes out was laughing hysterically when they pulled her out.
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1408 / int_4b0ef86e	type	Advertised Extra
1408 / int_4b0ef86e	comment	Advertised Extra: Samuel L. Jackson's face takes up as much real estate on the poster as John Cusack's. The former has maybe fifteen minutes of screentime, whereas the latter is in every scene (and is often the only character in the scene).
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1408 / int_4bfd2125	type	Straw Vulcan
1408 / int_4bfd2125	comment	Straw Vulcan: Subverted. Enslin presents himself, to himself and to others, as an atheist with a skeptical, highly rationalistic perspective on the world, but his true hamartia is his arrogance; he dismisses Olin's warnings without really considering them because his preconceptions make them sound to him like superstitious nonsense, i.e., ghost stories. A genuine skeptical rationalist would consider that Olin's experience as the hotel manager gives him a better claim to authority on the subject of the titular room than anyone who hasn't spent a night in it — and, if nothing else, a genuine skeptical rationalist would consider that $800 worth of XO cognac and basketball tickets is a hell of a long way to go to put over a ghost story. Enslin does suspect that Olin is hyping the story for financial gain, but Olin points out that the hotel is always nearly booked to capacity regardless of any publicity stunt; yet Enslin still refuses to take him seriously or think that trying to sell the Dolphin Motel as a hotbed for suicidal people (alleged supernatural causes notwithstanding) would be the complete antithesis of a publicity stunt. Last but not least, a rationalist would seriously consider the fact that since all 1408 guests died, staying there is not advised from mere statistical point of view — after all, nobody with the right mind would risk getting into a scenario with one-hundred-percent mortality rate, supernatural factors involved or not.
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1408 / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
1408 / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The original ending had Enslin dying with the room. Test audiences did not approve, and this ending was reserved for the international releases.
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1408 / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
1408 / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: When it turns out that Enslin's entire ordeal in eponymous room was apparently All Just a Dream, he decides to write a book about it and walks into the post office in order to send it to the editor... only to recognize the attendant as one of Dolphin Hotel staff members. Cue other postal office workers tearing the place down, revealing the walls and furniture of 1408 beneath it. No, it was not just a dream and Enslin is still trapped inside. Enslin endures all the crap the room puts him through for full hour while watching the countdown timer on the alarm clock slowly going down, hoping that when the time is up, it will be over (after all, he heard that none of the guests survived longer than an hour...). When said timer finally reaches zero... the room simply reverts to its original state, all damage and dilapidation gone in an instant. And the alarm clock resets, starting the one-hour countdown yet again. Turns out here is no way out after all — Enslin has to relive this hour over and over again, until he finally snaps and decides to put an end to his own misery, like everyone before him.
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1408 / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
1408 / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set: After Mike seems to have escaped from 1408 and lived a week or so of his normal life, he goes to the post office to deliver a letter, and suddenly all the employees start destroying the place, to reveal 1408 beneath it. Then the timer runs and out and it's like nothing ever happened.
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1408 / int_53d302c	type	Vertigo Effect
1408 / int_53d302c	comment	Vertigo Effect: Used almost identically to the Trope Namer, when Enslin is looking out his window down the street below. Used again when he tries crawling through the vents.
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1408 / int_540668c2	type	Offscreen Reality Warp
1408 / int_540668c2	comment	Offscreen Reality Warp: Over the course of the hour, many details of the room change, starting subtly with a crooked hanging, but growing increasingly elaborate. Even the varying levels of cognac left in the bottle are likely intentional.
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1408 / int_5735378d	type	Haunted House Historian
1408 / int_5735378d	comment	Haunted House Historian: The hotel manager knows all the history of room 1408.
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1408 / int_58154a14	type	Bribe Backfire
1408 / int_58154a14	comment	Bribe Backfire: Mr. Olin offers Enslin a bottle of 1939 cognac (worth about 800 dollars), as well as upgrading his room and Knicks tickets in his attempt to keep Enslin out of the room. Enslin accepts the cognac, then says he's still staying.
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1408 / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
1408 / int_586624e5	comment	Genius Loci: The room doesn't have anything evil in it. The room itself is evil.
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1408 / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
1408 / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: In spades. We never learn what the room is, who sent the postcard, or whether Enslin really escaped (in the ending where he does).
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1408 / int_5b19cc1b	type	Air-Vent Passageway
1408 / int_5b19cc1b	comment	Air-Vent Passageway: Subverted. Not only are the vents incredibly cramped, not only does Mike fail to escape, but something chases him in the vents.
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1408 / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
1408 / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: Shortly after the room starts to play tricks on Enslin, he starts to consider the possibility that he might be dreaming or hallucinating (and wonders if perhaps Olin put a hallucinogenic in the whiskey he gave him). One moment definitely is: Mike opens his fridge to find that it leads into Mr. Olin's office, who berates him for his pointless insistence on staying in 1408; when the camera pulls back, Mike is clearly screaming at a normal fridge. This remains an entirely valid interpretation of the film for most (if not all) of its runtime.
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1408 / int_5e859ba	type	Cassette Craze
1408 / int_5e859ba	comment	Cassette Craze: Enslin keeps his notes on a portable tape recorder. In the original short story he states that he found that when camping in graveyards, cassettes were easier to use than paper.
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1408 / int_5edb884e	type	Face of a Thug
1408 / int_5edb884e	comment	Face of a Thug: Inverted. The room looks rather nice before it goes to hell.
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1408 / int_622d4676	type	Mistaken for Suicidal
1408 / int_622d4676	comment	Mistaken for Suicidal: Enslin pre-empts this when he attempts to crawl along the outside ledge to the next room over. He tells his tape recorder that should he fall, he wants it to be known it was an accident, not the room winning.
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1408 / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
1408 / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: If you look closely at the Holy Bible right after Mike puts it down when he first enters the room, you'll see that the text on the cover is backwards. This is the first sign that something's wrong.
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1408 / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
1408 / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: In the movie, Enslin learns why you shouldn't drink anything when staying in a hotel room with a sadistic radio...
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1408 / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
1408 / int_6841f7f5	comment	Evil Phone: On the few occasions when the room decides to verbally communicate with Enslin, it does so through the room's phone. Though it initially pretends to be one of the hotel's employees (albeit one who ignores Enslin's complaints), the ruse eventually drops, though it maintains its perky and warm tone the whole time.
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1408 / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
1408 / int_6d332aea	comment	Enslin endures all the crap the room puts him through for full hour while watching the countdown timer on the alarm clock slowly going down, hoping that when the time is up, it will be over (after all, he heard that none of the guests survived longer than an hour...). When said timer finally reaches zero... the room simply reverts to its original state, all damage and dilapidation gone in an instant. And the alarm clock resets, starting the one-hour countdown yet again. Turns out here is no way out after all — Enslin has to relive this hour over and over again, until he finally snaps and decides to put an end to his own misery, like everyone before him.
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1408 / int_703fed94	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
1408 / int_703fed94	comment	Sound Track Dissonance: "We've Only Just Begun", indeed...
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1408 / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
1408 / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: The room caused the death of 56 people over the course of years before trying to make Mike his 57th.
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1408 / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
1408 / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: A minor example, but the poster shows an old-fashioned paddle key, as described in the book, with a complex head. The movie features a very ordinary key with the room number attached on a keychain.
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1408 / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
1408 / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: Mike's results, as mentioned in the above trope, are far more impressive in the film than in the short story. There's also a weird inversion in terms of Mike's writing career; he's a bestseller in the story, but is struggling in the film to the point that, when he hosts a book signing, he has to explain to the library clerk who he is to get things running. Though given how specific a demographic he caters to, it's not that surprising that he does not have a huge amount of fans.
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1408 / int_7834761	type	The Lonely Door
1408 / int_7834761	comment	The Lonely Door: Near the end, a random door appears in the middle of the room. When Enslin opens it, it just shows a black void.
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1408 / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
1408 / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Enslin receives one from his mini-fridge. It's actually the room who's taunting him.
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1408 / int_8163e2bb	type	Dramatic Drop
1408 / int_8163e2bb	comment	Dramatic Drop: At the end, when Enslin is listening to his notes while his wife is unpacking from a recent move. Her reaction to hearing the voice of their dead daughter on the tape is entirely understandable.
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1408 / int_81d94056	type	Detachable Doorknob
1408 / int_81d94056	comment	Detachable Doorknob: Once Enslin realizes that the titular hotel room he's staying in is, in fact, evil, he tries to escape, but not only does the door eat the inside key, the knob suddenly breaks off. This comes after the window slams itself completely shut, solidifying the fact that he's just become trapped for good.
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1408 / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
1408 / int_875615dd	comment	The hotel doesn't have a floor marked 13, to accommodate superstitious guests (actually a pretty common thing in the hotel business). This means that the 14th floor, where the room is located, is actually the 13th floor.
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1408 / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
1408 / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The "good" news is that there are no ghosts involved. When Enslin refers to a phantom in the room, Olin sharply rebukes him, in the charming way that only Samuel L. Jackson can (see the quote at the top of this page) pull off. This arguably makes the movie even harder to watch. You desperately want something to hate for everything that's happening to Enslin, but hating a room is like, well, shouting at a mini-fridge. The good thing about this is that you're relieved that it's just this one room...
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1408 / int_87cf4c8e	type	Weak to Fire
1408 / int_87cf4c8e	comment	Weak to Fire: This is how the room is finally destroyed.
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1408 / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
1408 / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: It is implied that the room peers into the darkest corners of its current occupant's fears, regrets, and insecurities, and customizes itself to whatever nightmares will traumatize them the most. Then it will just repeat the Mind Rape until the occupant kills themselves.
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1408 / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
1408 / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: Mike tries to escape through the vents, but the room doesn't like that, so it throws a zombie of Kevin O'Malley (one of 1408's first victims) up there to stop him.
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1408 / int_931fecec	type	Enclosed Space
1408 / int_931fecec	comment	Enclosed Space: In the movie, after Enslin has been in the room for a while, the door simply refuses to open. Going out the window doesn't work, and there's something horrible in the ventilation ducts, so that's out. Oh, and the room actively hates him.
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1408 / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
1408 / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Implied. At the ending the room visibly frustrated by Mike's resistance makes the phone melting and claims through its "operator voice" that "We killed your friend. All of your friend are now dead" in a calm but clearly angry tone of voice. Later when Mike sets it on fire we can hear a moan in the air vent, implying that is actually the room who is in pain.
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1408 / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
1408 / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: The room itself. It offers Mike, in a very polite manner, the option to take advantage of its express checkout system: showing him a rope to hang himself. Then cheerfully tells him that they will make sure that his wife joins him shortly.
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1408 / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
1408 / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: For Enslin, when Katie was dying of a terminal disease, and not only could he not do anything to prevent it, but as an atheist, he couldn't even take refuge in prayer.
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1408 / int_98936e28	type	Haunted Technology
1408 / int_98936e28	comment	Haunted Technology: Played With. The reality-warping nature of the titular room affects even electronic devices in there, causing them not to work properly or act strange. It's mentioned that the reason the room is accessed through an old fashioned key (which Mike had sarcastically complimented as a nice touch) rather then a magnetic card like all the other rooms is because of this. The one example where this trope is played completely straight, though, is when Enslin tries to contact his wife via laptop, only for a doppelganger of him to appear in the chat window and goad Lily into entering the 1408. In the theatrical cut Enslin's tape recorder was retrieved from the fire of 1408, and after a moment he gets it working again and it begins to play back his recordings, before jumping to a recording of the conversation he had with his dead daughter. It's unclear what this means — if the room's influence has survived in the tape, if this is all another elaborate delusion and he's still in the room, or if it simply was able to record their voices and is not playing them back. In the director's cut, the tape recorder finds its way to Mr. Olin, who begins listening to it while in his car. He then looks up and jumps upon seeing Enslin's charred corpse in his rear-view mirror, giving him a weary grin. Whether this is the room's malign influence spreading or simply Enslin seeing his last work completed remains unclear.
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1408 / int_9a692ae9	type	13 Is Unlucky
1408 / int_9a692ae9	comment	13 Is Unlucky: The hotel doesn't have a floor marked 13, to accommodate superstitious guests (actually a pretty common thing in the hotel business). This means that the 14th floor, where the room is located, is actually the 13th floor. 1 + 4 + 0 + 8 = 13. Mike even considers it cute the first time he makes note of it. Needless to say, this sentiment doesn't last. The room also keeps fiddling with the thermostat to extremely hot or cold temperatures, the digits of which always add up to thirteen. He also tells the maintenance man (who refuses to enter the room) that it's only "six or seven feet" to reach the thermostat. The numbers that the phone calls out add up to thirteen in pairs. The Dolphin is at 2254 Lexington. Also, the metal plate inside the door's lock is engraved with "6214." And, the DVD's run time is 104 minutes, 8 seconds (1 + 04 + 8 = 13, or 104 / 8 = 13). The director's cut clocks in at around 112 minutes: 1 + 12 = 13. It came out on the 22nd in 2007. 2+2+2+0+0+7=13. According to Olin, there has been a total of 56 deaths in 1408. Mike was the intended 57th victim, and had Lily come up to the room as well, it would have added up to 58. 5 + 8 = 13. The Dolphin Hotel opened in October 1912, with 1408 claiming its first victim the opening week. 1 + 9 + 1 + 2 = 13.
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1408 / int_9b0ecf33	type	Title by Number
1408 / int_9b0ecf33	comment	Title by Number: It's the name of the hotel room in question.
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1408 / int_9bbe05ee	type	Fantasy Keepsake
1408 / int_9bbe05ee	comment	Fantasy Keepsake: After Mike really escapes the room, it could be thought that everything he went through was some kind of hallucination, with either a natural or supernatural cause— except that his tape recorder has his daughter's voice on it.
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1408 / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
1408 / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Takes effect once the voice on the phone offers Enslin the express checkout and he acts completely nonchalant for the rest of the film, such as relaxing on the couch as the place is set on fire.
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1408 / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
1408 / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: Room 1408, the Eldritch Abomination mentioned directly above, is a physical place. It messes up the reality of the place every time someone stays in there too long.
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1408 / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
1408 / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Used in both the short story and the movie to escape the room... but in slightly different fashions. In a "blink and you miss it" foreshadowing, when the post office is being torn down to reveal the room, one of the bricks on the wall has "Burn me alive" written on it. This is also shown when the room is first encased in brick, outside the living area window which is the only one in the room at the time.
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1408 / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
1408 / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: By way of Bilingual Bonus: The bottle Olin gives to Mike is named Les Cinquante Sept DÃ©cÃ¨s, which means "The fifty-seven deaths." We learn there have been 56 deaths in 1408. Guess who's number 57. When Mike gets to the 14th floor, he ambles along through the corridors absent-mindedly, not looking where he's going, and inadvertently ends up back at the elevators, right where he started. The lady with the pram and the baby's screams are hints of the death of Mike's daughter. Enslin calls down to the front desk because the room is too hot: The recurring use of "We've Only Just Begun" by the Carpenters. "Burn me alive" written on two separate bricks of walls (see Kill It with Fire).
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1408 / int_9dd84122	type	Occult Detective
1408 / int_9dd84122	comment	Occult Detective: Enslin, in combination with Intrepid Reporter. However, he's never encountered any genuine supernatural force until he tries to stay in 1408.
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1408 / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
1408 / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: Both the Director's Cut and the alternate ending leaves the unsettling implication that burning down Room 1408 didn't destroy it all but simply caused it to instead possess Mike's possessions instead.
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1408 / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
1408 / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Olin also mentions that the maid who was accidentally locked in 1408's bathroom briefly and gouged her eyes out was laughing hysterically when they pulled her out.
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1408 / int_a3597c29	type	Magic Countdown
1408 / int_a3597c29	comment	Magic Countdown: The clock radio counts down from 60 minutes. Over and over and over.
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1408 / int_a3a6fdb2	type	Room 101
1408 / int_a3a6fdb2	comment	Room 101: See Psychological Torment Zone above.
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1408 / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
1408 / int_a62dca03	comment	Year Inside, Hour Outside: Time is one of the many things that don't function normally in room 1408. At one point, Mike is lulled into thinking it was All Just a Dream, and he goes on with his life for about a week on the "outside" before the room reveals that he never left at all. In truth, he barely spent an hour in there. Mr. Olin claims that none of the 1408's guests survived more than an hour — leading Enslin to believe that if he manages to endure that much, everything will be over. However, when countdown timer reaches zero, all it does is reverting the room to its initial, pristine state and resetting the timer to one hour countdown again, revealing that Mike is doomed to go through this over and over again. Apparently, other guests have — from their point of view — spent much more than an hour inside 1408, until they couldn't take it anymore and committed suicide. While leading Enslin to the eponymous room, Olin recalls a story of a maid who got locked in a bathroom for just a few moments. It is unknown what happened in there and how long did it take from her perspective, but it drove her so crazy that by the time they got her out, she has gouged her own eyes out with scissors while laughing hysterically.
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1408 / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
1408 / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: Just when Enslin thinks he might have his dead daughter back, she falls limp while he's hugging her — and then to twist the knife further, the radio startles him (again) and she crumbles into ash.
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1408 / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
1408 / int_a6cda066	comment	The Dolphin is at 2254 Lexington. Also, the metal plate inside the door's lock is engraved with "6214." And, the DVD's run time is 104 minutes, 8 seconds (1 + 04 + 8 = 13, or 104 / 8 = 13). The director's cut clocks in at around 112 minutes: 1 + 12 = 13.
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1408 / int_ad5c0143	type	Cutting Back to Reality
1408 / int_ad5c0143	comment	Cutting Back to Reality: While Mike is being endlessly tormented by 1408, there's an interesting shot where he opens the minifridge in search of booze, which is shown to lead into a completely different room from which another character gives him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech. When the camera pulls back, Mike is simply screaming at a regular fridge. In another scene, a phone melts in front of him before changing back in a jump cut. That being said, it's not clear if everything is just happening in his head or if 1408 is a Reality Warper.
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1408 / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
1408 / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: The room's only motive apparently. It pratically even confess to Mike through phone that it's the reason why it just don't kill him.
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1408 / int_ae372576	type	I Warned You
1408 / int_ae372576	comment	I Warned You: As part of it's ongoing Mind Rape, at one point room 1408 creates an illusion of the manager telling Mike that, among other things, he was the one who sought out the room despite all the warnings and mockingly asks him if 1408 was living up to his expectations.
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1408 / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
1408 / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: The Front Desk Clerk talks like this when Enslin takes the phone after the supernatural events happen. Later on, it's revealed to be the Room itself mocking him. Mike himself can be this more than once.
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1408 / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
1408 / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Enslin was looking for proof of the supernatural. He found it.
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1408 / int_b0bce7aa	type	Selective Obliviousness
1408 / int_b0bce7aa	comment	Selective Obliviousness: The Dolphin Hotel is owned by a Japanese conglomerate who refuse to close off 1408 for good. Mr. Olin implies that he has strongly recommended this solution multiple times, but admits in exasperation that his bosses prefer to pretend there isn't a problem.
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1408 / int_b10d7e8e	type	Head-in-the-Sand Management
1408 / int_b10d7e8e	comment	Head-in-the-Sand Management: The Dolphin Hotel is owned by a Japanese company who are ignoring Olin's requests to seal off 1408 despite detailed evidence of the dozens of guests who have died in there, many of them violently. Olin compares it to the superstition of pretending there is no 13th floor. This is avoided by Olin himself, who has done everything in his power to prevent any more guests from staying in there and to minimize any further harm the room can do.
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1408 / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
1408 / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: "You can choose to repeat this hour over and over again, or you can take advantage of our express checkout system".
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1408 / int_b352279a	type	Attack of the Killer Whatever
1408 / int_b352279a	comment	Attack of the Killer Whatever: In this case, a hotel room.
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1408 / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
1408 / int_b3bdf232	comment	The room itself in both cuts. In the short story, it's still in good shape by the end — if rather non-Euclidean at times.
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1408 / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
1408 / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Enslin counts. Even if he is a skeptic in the supernatural, it should have been disturbingly obvious with the extensive history of mysterious deaths and mutilations that Olin provides him that room 1408, regardless of nature, was dangerous, he still insists on staying the night. It ends up costing him dearly. An argument of Enslin acting this way can be argued that he has become so jaded with desperation of hotels playing off ghost stories, to say his own jadedness with not believing in ghosts and religion, is arguably why he thinks Olin is lying. That being said, considering the amount of evidence against the room, Enslin should have been a lot more wary. And yet he was probably the very first occupant of the room who'd got to know all the backstory before checking in. In retrospect, despite all his skepticism it could well be precisely this pre-existing knowledge that allowed him to endure what must have completely smitten completely unsuspecting guests within minutes.
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1408 / int_b5ac90ac	type	"Groundhog Day" Loop
1408 / int_b5ac90ac	comment	"Groundhog Day" Loop: How the room put the screws to its residents' sanity. There's a variation though, in that the time itself isn't reset after the end of the loop - it just repeats over and over.
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1408 / int_b603b549	type	Last Unsmoked Cigarette
1408 / int_b603b549	comment	Last Unsmoked Cigarette: Literally. Enslin, who has quit smoking, keeps a cigarette behind his ear throughout the movie. When Mike sets the room on fire and expects to die, he lights it up.
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1408 / int_b661954a	type	Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere
1408 / int_b661954a	comment	Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere: After a while, room 1408 cuts off all of Enslin's exits so it can continue tormenting him. The hotel map on the front door changes to show that the room is the only thing that exists inside a featureless black void.
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1408 / int_b6ca8bd	type	If Jesus, Then Aliens
1408 / int_b6ca8bd	comment	If Jesus, Then Aliens: Mike doesn't believe in the supernatural, claiming even if it was real, there isn't a God to protect them from it. This comes back to bite him hard when, at the near of his rope, he desperately resorts to praying from the hotel's bible only to see that the good book is now completely blank.
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1408 / int_b7ff3d2f	type	Personal Horror
1408 / int_b7ff3d2f	comment	Personal Horror: The overall schtick of the titular hotel room seems to be dragging guests kicking and screaming through the darkest corners of their own subconscious and beating them over the head with their own doubts, fears, and regrets. Mike Enslin discovers this to his extreme detriment.
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1408 / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
1408 / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: The room at the end, through phone, offers Mike to either going on with his mental torture or to take "advantage of its express checkout system" which means killing himself.
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1408 / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
1408 / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: "It's an evil fucking room."
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1408 / int_bc1faa80	type	Mirror Scare
1408 / int_bc1faa80	comment	Mirror Scare: Mike gets shocked by seeing the reflection of the man with a hammer in his bedroom mirror. He turns around to realize he is alone in the room. The room later tries this again, this time with an image of Mike gruesomely hanging himself, but by this point he's already resolved to burn down the room and is so jaded by everything else he's gone through he doesn't even blink.
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1408 / int_bc2c77d5	type	Living Structure Monster
1408 / int_bc2c77d5	comment	Living Structure Monster: The entire hotel room itself, not just any specific piece of it, is evil. The rest of the hotel is fine though.
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1408 / int_bf239986	type	Mind Virus
1408 / int_bf239986	comment	Mind Virus: The room starts a slow infection of any of its occupants' minds without them realizing it.
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1408 / int_bf798be	type	Dangerous Windows
1408 / int_bf798be	comment	Dangerous Windows: First, the window that slams shut on his hand hard enough to break the skin. Later, when Enslin tries to escape to the next room over by going out the window, he is unable to reach the expected next window over - and then sees that 1408's are the only two windows within about five miles of otherwise featureless wall. Naturally, the window tries to bite him again on the return trip.
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1408 / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
1408 / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": In a sense: When Enslin finds himself back in 1408 after the reveal that it's an illusion, he screams "I WAS OUT!". But it fits more in regards to his anguished screams when Katie again dies in his arms.
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1408 / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
1408 / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The nightmare sequence late in the movie where Enslin thinks he's escaped from the room. This immediately leads to an inversion, where Enslin looks ready to cross the Despair Event Horizon, but when the room mocks him one last time, Enslin decides to set the room on fire. Even though he's prepared to die, he's pulled from the burning wreckage of the room.
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1408 / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
1408 / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: Enslin is waiting for the clock to count down to zero, thinking then that he'll be safe. Then the clock starts up again at 60 minutes. And letting him "escape". And showing him his daughter, then ripping her away again.
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1408 / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
1408 / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To the fridge scene from Ghostbusters (1984). There's a small blink-and-you-miss-it reference to the original short story. When Enslin is walking down the hall to the room for the first time, he is shuffling through his notes. On one page is a line from the original short story from when Enslin first begins to feel the effects from the room. "We've Only Just Begun", the song that becomes Enslin's Madness Mantra by proxy, is also played in the insane asylum where John Trent winds up after the events of In the Mouth of Madness (but at the beginning of the actual movie). After the climax and Enslin's escape, he starts seeing the ghosts of those trapped in 1408, including while having lunch in a restaurant in a frame-for-frame shout out to the ending of Misery. Then he finds out he's not escaped after all. Enslin's attempt to find a rational explanation for the strange occurences, described by him as "Let's Encyclopedia Brown this bitch." When Enslin first enters the room, he asks his dictaphone "Where are the rivers of blood?" in reference to another Stephen King adaptation set in a hotel. When a fan asks Mike where he can find a genuine haunted house, Mike responds "Haunted Mansion, Orlando, Florida". the shifting portrait of the ship might also be a Haunted Mansion reference as well.
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1408 / int_c8db76f6	type	And You Were There
1408 / int_c8db76f6	comment	And You Were There: When Mike realizes that the clerk at the post office and the hotel boy were the same person, the illusion starts to crumble.
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1408 / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
1408 / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: When Enslin finally snaps, he makes a Molotov cocktail with the cognac given to him by the manager to burn himself and the room. He even says, "If I have to go down, I'm taking you with me."
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1408 / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
1408 / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Unlike the short story, Enslin manages to destroy the room in both cuts by burning it down.
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1408 / int_cc82b744	type	It Won't Turn Off
1408 / int_cc82b744	comment	It Won't Turn Off: The clock radio, which keeps counting down even after Enslin pulls out the plug.
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1408 / int_ccc73c34	type	Spooky Painting
1408 / int_ccc73c34	comment	Spooky Painting: Enslin finds three framed examples of Generic Hotel Artwork that get more menacing as the movie goes on. Specifically, a painting of "constipated English lords" hunting changes to a scene wherein they are attacked by their hunting dogs, a ship being tossed about in on the high seas suddenly has a full crew fighting in vain against a storm, and a painting of a woman and her child becomes a painting of a woman breastfeeding her dead baby.
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1408 / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
1408 / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: The titular 1408 is a sentient and evil room who loves to drive people crazy and eventually to their gruesome deaths just for his own sadistic amusement.
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1408 / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
1408 / int_cdfe12c3	comment	While leading Enslin to the eponymous room, Olin recalls a story of a maid who got locked in a bathroom for just a few moments. It is unknown what happened in there and how long did it take from her perspective, but it drove her so crazy that by the time they got her out, she has gouged her own eyes out with scissors while laughing hysterically.
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1408 / int_cecce86	type	Feedback Rule
1408 / int_cecce86	comment	Feedback Rule: Happens when a bookstore clerk grabs a mic to announce the hero's autograph session for that night.
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1408 / int_cf62f907	type	Parking Problems
1408 / int_cf62f907	comment	Parking Problems: The protagonist takes up two stalls with his SUV in front of the post office at the beginning of the movie.
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1408 / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
1408 / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Enslin is very insistent about staying in 1408, in spite of Olin's warnings against doing so. He should have listened.
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1408 / int_d2aa7d09	type	Littlest Cancer Patient
1408 / int_d2aa7d09	comment	Littlest Cancer Patient: Katie Enslin, who dies from an unspecified disease (possibly terminal cancer) a year before the events of the movie, an event that spurred Enslin to travel around the country investigating haunted locations. The room's visions of Katie still alive with Mike in the room really seem designed to go for Mike's jugular.
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1408 / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
1408 / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: The postcard Enslin receives, warning him "Don't go in 1408!"
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1408 / int_d485cb13	type	Psychotic Smirk
1408 / int_d485cb13	comment	Psychotic Smirk: Enslin's doppelganger which appears in the chat window on laptop gives Mike a vicious smile after successfully tricking his wife Lily into entering the titular room. Said doppleganger it's implied to be the room's avatar.
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1408 / int_d5b06fbb	type	It Has Only Just Begun
1408 / int_d5b06fbb	comment	It Has Only Just Begun: Featuring the Carpenters as the voice of unfathomable evil.
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1408 / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
1408 / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Mr. Olin, a white middle aged British man in the story is played by Samuel L. Jackson in the film. It's a very effective transition at that. If some stuffy British guy walked up to you and said 'Don't go in the room!', you'd probably do it out of spite. Now if Samuel L Jackson told you 'Don't go in the fucking room'...
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1408 / int_d9850d12	type	Doomed Contrarian
1408 / int_d9850d12	comment	Doomed Contrarian: Enslin barely averts this. In most endings of the movie, at least.
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1408 / int_d9c4365c	type	Reset Button
1408 / int_d9c4365c	comment	Reset Button: After subjectively going through weeks of utter hell and paranoia, and the room itself being reduced to a bombed-out wreck, when the timer on the clock runs out the room immediately reverts to the way it was when Enslin first entered it.
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1408 / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
1408 / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Some of the staff at the hotel are also fully aware of the dangers of room 1408. The mechanic sent up to fix the thermostat flat out refuses to enter the room, talks Mike through the steps while remaining outside the door and is already down the hallway the second the thermostat is fixed.
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1408 / int_da264b9c	type	Word-Salad Horror
1408 / int_da264b9c	comment	Word-Salad Horror: The room's "conversation" with Mike Enslin is made of random sentences and series of numbers that add up to 13.
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1408 / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
1408 / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Enslin, though he was an atheist before his daughter passed away.
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1408 / int_dcd115e7	type	Compartment Shot
1408 / int_dcd115e7	comment	Compartment Shot: There are several throughout the film. We see the hotel room's mini-bar from the inside when Enslin opens it. He looks baffled and we assume it is because the fridge is empty but it turns out, the fridge's backside is open and leads into the next room from where an illusion of the hotel manager starts to berate Enslin. Other examples include a shot from the inside of Mike's PO Box, the compartment from which the key is produced at the hotel, and the locking mechanism of the door itself.
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1408 / int_dd608032	type	Hell Hotel
1408 / int_dd608032	comment	Hell Hotel: Played with. Only the one room, and the owner does his best to explain the risks and discourage most people from going in there. The rest of the hotel is exceptionally pleasant. Hell, even the room (before it goes to shit) looks like a lovely spacious apartment.
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1408 / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
1408 / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Enslin reaches this after experiencing the vision of Katie dying in his arms. And the room keeps going in its attempts to mess up his mind.
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1408 / int_dea5fe1	type	Kubrick Stare
1408 / int_dea5fe1	comment	Kubrick Stare: Mike, in the theatrical ending.
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1408 / int_e16cd2c8	type	Grief-Induced Split
1408 / int_e16cd2c8	comment	Grief-Induced Split: After the death of their young daughter Katie, Mike abandons his wife Lily and travels the country as an author chronicling stays in supposedly-haunted locations.
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1408 / int_e3847ee8	type	Cigarette of Anxiety
1408 / int_e3847ee8	comment	Cigarette of Anxiety: The protagonist has a cigarette stored behind his ear for these types of situations.
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1408 / int_e8b295de	type	PlayedWith
1408 / int_e8b295de	comment	Played With. The reality-warping nature of the titular room affects even electronic devices in there, causing them not to work properly or act strange. It's mentioned that the reason the room is accessed through an old fashioned key (which Mike had sarcastically complimented as a nice touch) rather then a magnetic card like all the other rooms is because of this.
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1408 / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
1408 / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: When Olin and Enslin meet, Enslin tries to dismiss Olin's warning as just another ghost story. Olin points out that he never said 1408 has a ghost. "It's en evil fucking room."
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1408 / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
1408 / int_ea85d6ea	comment	Time is one of the many things that don't function normally in room 1408. At one point, Mike is lulled into thinking it was All Just a Dream, and he goes on with his life for about a week on the "outside" before the room reveals that he never left at all. In truth, he barely spent an hour in there.
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1408 / int_eae91ec6	type	Real Fake Door
1408 / int_eae91ec6	comment	Real Fake Door: As soon as Mike realizes how dangerous the room really is and tries to make a break for it, it creates a brick wall behind the front door so he can't leave.
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1408 / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
1408 / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: One victim of 1408, as Mike delicately puts it, "turned himself into a eunuch", while having also slit his wrists.
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1408 / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
1408 / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: One of the first things we see Enslin do on screen is to give an alleged haunted hotel six skulls out of ten in his fright scale (then "five skulls, because fuck 'em") even if by his own admission to the tape the hotel's owners treated him quite well and the hotel pretty much only survives by being a tourist trap, followed by being self-aggrandizing when he arrives to a book signing. His conversation with Olin is unnecessarily confrontational and he pooh-poohs Olin's attempt at talking him out of staying in Room 1408 as "superstition" and "publicity stunt" even if, supernatural reasons or not, a hotel advertising itself as being New York's suicide central is the antithesis of a publicity stunt. The room is this too. When it uses the "phone operator" voice it acts very rude and negligent. And that's when it's not trying to mentally torture people to death.
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1408 / int_eba57b3f	type	Cornered Rattlesnake
1408 / int_eba57b3f	comment	Cornered Rattlesnake: The room pushing Enslin over the Despair Event Horizon backfires spectacularly. When 1408 resets and it's clear Enslin's never getting out, he turns into The Stoic, lights up a cigarette and a Molotov Cocktail, and calmly takes a seat for One Last Smoke as the room burns around him.
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1408 / int_f07450a0	type	Balcony Escape
1408 / int_f07450a0	comment	Balcony Escape: Mike tries, and fails as the other windows all disappear from the wall that stretches out into infinity.
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1408 / int_f2dadf81	type	Evil Twin
1408 / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: The room in one scene takes the form of Mike's doppleganger in order to trick his wife to come to the hotel so it can have her too.
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1408 / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
1408 / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn your Bittersweet Ending: The revised ending has Mike survive his ordeal, albeit injured. He moves to Los Angeles with Lily, where both of them realize that Mike's ordeal was indeed real.
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1408 / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
1408 / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: Alluded to in the alternate ending where Enslin dies; while Mary is watching his body being lowered into the ground next to Katie's, she remarks, "They're together now..."
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1408 / int_f7e98d4a	type	Snow Means Cold
1408 / int_f7e98d4a	comment	Snow Means Cold: When it gets to freezing in the room, the floor is covered with a layer of snow. The sprinklers were on for awhile, but it should have generated some ice, not snow. But of course, the room's Reality Warper nature can explain such little details.
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1408 / int_fa4bf618	type	Blank Book
1408 / int_fa4bf618	comment	Blank Book: When Enslin breaks down and opens the Gideon Bible, it's blank.
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1408	hasFeature	Balcony Escape / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Blank Book / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Bribe Backfire / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Cassette Craze / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Cigarette of Anxiety / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Compartment Shot / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Cutting Back to Reality / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Deadly Euphemism / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Detachable Doorknob / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Died Happily Ever After / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Died in Your Arms Tonight / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Dramatic Drop / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Enclosed Space / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Evil Phone / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Fantasy Keepsake / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Feedback Rule / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Focus Group Ending / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Grief-Induced Split / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	"Groundhog Day" Loop / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Haunted House Historian / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Head-in-the-Sand Management / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Hell Hotel / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Horror Struck / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	If Jesus, Then Aliens / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	It Has Only Just Begun / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	It Won't Turn Off / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Kill It with Fire / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Last Unsmoked Cigarette / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Living Structure Monster / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Mirror Routine / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Mirror Scare / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Missing Floor / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Molotov Cocktail / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Monster Media / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Non Sequitur Environment / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Personal Horror / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Primal Fear / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Psychological Horror / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Psychological Torment Zone / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Real Fake Door / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Reset Button / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Right on the Tick / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Schrödinger's Butterfly / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Screens Are Cameras / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Skeptic No Longer / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Skepticism Failure / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Straw Vulcan / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Super Drowning Skills / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	That Was Not a Dream / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	The Lonely Door / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	The Place / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	The Precarious Ledge / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	13 Is Unlucky / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Title by Number / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Tortured Monster / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Trauma Conga Line / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Undead Child / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Weak to Fire / int_475b7e5c
1408	hasFeature	Year Inside, Hour Outside / int_475b7e5c

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