1408 (2007) - Quotes

Warning Against Entering Room 1408

Taglines: Don't enter Room 1408!

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A Hotel's Invitation with a Warning

Taglines: The Dolphin Hotel invites you to stay in any of it's stunning rooms. Except one.

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Best Horror Film of 2007: 1408

Quotes about 1408: [[nothing] Despite all of these recycled plot elements bobbing around, there's ] stale about 1408, which is easily the best horror film of 2007.

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Metaphysical Horror in 1408 Explained

Quotes about 1408: Its as much a metaphysical mind bender as it is a horror film.

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Living with Bad Memories

Lily Enslin: C'mon, hon. Just brings back bad memories, let me get rid of it.

Mike Enslin: Sometimes, you can't get rid of bad memories. You just gotta live with em.

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Defiance in the face of fear

Room 1408: Are you ready to check out, Mr. Enslin?

Mike Enslin: No. Not your way.

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The Choice Between Endless Suffering and Escape

Mike Enslin: Why don't you just kill me?

Room 1408: [[free; ''camera pans out to reveal a noose hanging from the ceiling''] Because all guests of this hotel enjoy ] will, Mr. Enslin. You can choose to relive this hour over and over, or you can take advantage of our express checkout system.

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Confronting Mortality and Family Ties

Mike: You're not going anywhere. You're staying here with us.

Katie: Daddy, everyone dies.

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Expectations vs. Reality in Hotel Experience

Mr. Olin: I was just checking to see if the accommodations were exceeding your expectations.

Mike Enslin: You know goddamn well they are!

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Tragic Incident in a Locked Bathroom

Mr. Olin: A few years ago a young maid from El Salvador found herself locked in the bathroom. She was only there for a few moments, but when we pulled her out she was...

Mike Enslin: [''sarcastically''] She was dead?

Mr. Olin: [[Blind; [eyes; [laughing] No. ]. She had taken a pair of scissors and gouged her ] out. She was ] hysterically.

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Discussion of Room 1408's Unusual Features

Mike Enslin: [''Olin gives Enslin the room key''; [key] Most hotels have switched to magnetics. An actual ]. That's a nice touch, it's antiquey.

Mr. Olin: [[Hope] We have magnetic cards also, but electronics don't seem to work in 1408. ] you don't have a pacemaker.

Mike Enslin: [into his tape recorder] General manager claims that the phantom in room interferes...

Mr. Olin: [''scoffs''; [phantom] I have never used the word "]".

Mike Enslin: [[spirit] Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, ]? Specter?

Mr. Olin: No, you misunderstand. Whatever's in 1408 is nothing like that.

Mike Enslin: Then what is it?

Mr. Olin: [''moves closer and whispers into Enslin's ear''; [evil] It's an ] fucking room.

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The Death Toll of Room 1408

Mr. Olin: All told, there have been fifty-six deaths in 1408.

Mike Enslin: Fifty-six? You're shitting me.

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Inquiry into Deaths in Room 1408

Mr. Olin: During your investigation did you discover the twenty-two natural deaths that have occurred in 1408?

Mike Enslin: Natural deaths?

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Miscommunication About Room Availability

Hotel operator: That room is not available.

Mike: ...I didn't tell you which date.

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Skepticism About the Existence of the Supernatural

Fan: [[ghosts] So you're saying there's no such things as ].

Mike: [[Nothing; [happier; [experience; [paranormal] I'm saying I've never seen one. ] would make me ] than to ] a ] event.

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Choices in Room 1408

Postcard: Don't enter 1408.

Workman: I ain't going in this room.

Radio: [Song by [[w:The Carpenters|The Carpenters] We've only just begun. ] played on the clock radio, whenever it comes on.]

Hotel operator: You can choose to relive this hour over and over, or you can take advantage of our express checkout system. (Camera pans out to reveal a noose hanging from the ceiling.)

Hotel operator: [[friends; [dead] Five. This is five. Ignore the sirens. Even if you leave this room, you can never leave this room. (voice becomes low and sinister) Eight. This is eight. We have killed your ]. Every friend is now ].

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Observation of Room 1408's Empty State

Lily Enslin: Yeah. They're in Room 1408. The room's empty.

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The Allure of Ghosts and Afterlife

Mr. Olin: Why do you think people believe in ghosts? For fun? No. It’s the prospect of something after death. How many spirits have you broken?

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Concerns About Cleaning Up After Guests

Mr. Olin: [[good; [selfishly] Look, I'm not telling you not to stay in that room for your own ] or for the profit of the hotel. Frankly, ], I just don't want to clean up the mess.

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Warning About Room 1408

Mr. Olin: I warned you about 1408.

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The Nature of the Room

Mr. Olin: [[evil] It's an ] fucking room.

Dolphin Hotel Earns Perfect Shiver Scale Rating

Mike Enslin: [''before throwing the ashtray through the window, thereby letting the room explode''] The decor is in tatters... And the staff surly... But on the Shiver Scale, I award the Dolphin... ten skulls!

Commitment to the Task at Hand

Mike Enslin: We're here to do the job. And we don't rattle.

A Call for Silence in Distress

Mike Enslin: [''speaking nonchalantly to the ghoulish apparition in the vents as the room burns''] Keep quiet, you bastard.

Questioning Reality and Existence

Mike Enslin: This may not all be real. I may not even be real. But this fire... That's gotta be real.

Redemption in the Face of Mortality

Mike Enslin: I've lived the life of a selfish man. But I don't have to die that way.

Defiance Against the Room's Power

Mike Enslin: [speaking into his recorder as he goes out on the ledge, trying to escape the room; [accident] If something should happen, if I should slip and fall, I want it known it was an ]. The room did not win.