As the temperature in the room starts to rapidly increase, Mike uses his laptop to contact his estranged wife Lily and ask for help. Mike makes numerous attempts to leave the room, all in vain. Mike begins to see ghosts of the room's past victims, along with flashbacks of his deceased daughter Katie and his terminally ill father. While Mike describes the room's boring appearance and absence of supernatural behavior on his mini-cassette recorder as the ' banality of evil', the clock radio suddenly starts playing The Carpenters' ' We've Only Just Begun', and the digital display changes to a countdown starting from 60:00. Olin attempts to dissuade and even bribe Mike, but at Mike's insistence and threat of legal action against the hotel, preparations are reluctantly made. He explains to Mike that in the last 95 years, no one has lasted more than an hour inside of 1408 the latest count is 56 deaths.

The hotel manager, Gerald Olin, attempts to discourage him. While promoting his latest book in Hermosa Beach, California, he receives an anonymous postcard depicting The Dolphin, a hotel on Lexington Avenue in New York City, bearing the message: 'Don't enter 1408.' Viewing this as a challenge, Mike travels to The Dolphin and requests room 1408. Mike Enslin is a cynical and skeptical author of niche books debunking supernatural events, in which he has no belief. Reviews were mostly positive and 1408 was a box-office success, garnering nearly 5 times its production budget of $25 million. Although skeptical of the paranormal, he is soon trapped in the room where he experiences bizarre and frightful events. Enslin receives an ominous warning not to enter the titular room 1408 at a fictional New York City hotel, The Dolphin. The film follows Mike Enslin, an author who investigates allegedly haunted locales. Jackson, was directed by Mikael Håfström and released in the United States on June 22, 2007. 1408 is a 2007 American psychological horror film based on Stephen King's 1999 short story of the same name.

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