Continuity mistake: When Mike first enters room 1408, there are three light switches on the wall. He flicks on two of them. A few seconds later, you see the switches behind him, but it is two different switches that have been flicked.
1408 (2007)
Plot summary
Directed by: Mikael Hafstrom
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, John Cusack, Tony Shalhoub, Mary McCormack, Margot Leicester, Paul Birchard, Walter Lewis
The directors cut ends the movie differently. Instead of surviving the fire he dies in the fire and at the end they are having a funeral for him and the hotal manager Samual L. Jackson arrives after the funeral is over to give his wife the box of John Cusacks belongins that survived the fire and to tell her he did a great thing by destroying the room. She does not accept them and he gets back in the car with the box. He opens it up and listens to the tape recorder. Then he looks up in the rearview mirror and sees john cusacks character burned then it dissapears he starts laughing. Next shot is John Cusacks character in the hotel room smoking his cigarrette and the fades.
More mistakes in 1408
Mike Enslin: Let's "Encyclopedia Brown" this bitch.
Question: Are there 2 different endings to this film? When I saw it for the second time I'm sure it was different from the first time I saw it.
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Chosen answer: Yes. The alternate ending has become the default ending in most areas, and is the default ending on the Blu-Ray.
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