They didn’t like that Enslin didn’t make it out of the hotel room. But when he showed the cut to test audiences, it just didn’t resonate with them. This was director Mikael Håfström’s preferred ending. It turns out, the alternate ending of 1408 was supposed to be the original ending.

This is the depressing ending that many of us have found while streaming the movie, much to our confusion. He hears his daughter calling for him and walks away to find her, disappearing as he reaches the door. Then we see Enslin back in the burned out room smoking a cigarette. When Olin gets back into his car, he briefly sees Enslin in the backseat through his rearview mirror. He’s happy that someone finally ended the horror of that terrible room. In the alternate version, which is actually the director’s favorite version, after Enslin destroys room 1408, he dies in the process. Their late daughter Katie’s voice comes from the recorder, much to their shock. He finds the tape recorder he used in the room and turns it on. He’s back with his wife and she’s skeptical of what happened to him in room 1408. However, after destroying the hotel room, he manages to finally crawl his way out. Unfortunately, spooky stuff starts to happen and, try as he might, he can’t get out. After insisting, he ends up in the fated room. The room is 1408, and the staff don’t want him to stay there. Haunted house book author Mike Enslin (John Cusack) is invited to write about a spooky hotel room in an otherwise un-haunted hotel. Spoilers ahead! The Theatrical Ending Mike Enslin lives. Was I wrong? Was this a case of yet another horror movie Mandela Effect? It turns out, if you’ve streamed 1408, you might have caught the wrong ending. But when I finally watched it again, this time on streaming, I was left confused. Cusack tries all of the various ways we’d do to get out of that hotel room, and nothing works. I think that’s the case for a lot of people. I’d seen it in the theater and it just kind of stuck with me. A few years ago I was feeling nostalgic for John Cusack’s hotel hell movie, 1408.

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