1408 which ending is better

The camera zooms in on the numbers on the outside door, just as they melt from the heat. The next scene is at Mike's funeral where his coffin is lowered into the ground right next to his daughter's; just as the visions prophesied.

Lily is there, being consoled by Mike's agent. As the procession ends, Lily walks to her car and is met by Gerald Olin who is carrying a box. Gerald introduces himself and gives his condolences. He says the box contains some of Mike's belongings still left in the room. Lily, in too much grief to listen, cuts him off and refuses to accept the box. Gerald returns to his car and opens the box, which contains the nightgown that was sent through the fax machine as well and the burned tape recorder.

Gerald plays it and hears the same dialog between Mike and his daughter heard at the end of the theatrical release. As he listens, he sees a young girl in his rear-view mirror waving in his direction. He turns around to look at her and catches a brief vision of Mike Enslin in his back seat, hideously burned. Samuel L. Jackson plays a small but memorable role as a manager warning him to stay in Enslin, but the rest of the film is from the moment he checks in to the destruction of the victory in the finale room.

This makes little sense in the context. In the movie version of The Cusack character uses a Molotov cocktail and a cleverly placed ashtray to blow up the room and escape from the hotel in his life.

Later, when he reunited with his estranged ex-wife, his scorched tape recorder played a recording of their dead daughter talking to him while in the room, thus thus some sort of supernatural.

Proved that an event was in progress. This is the most effective jump scare in both versions of the movie, in amazing closing scenes.

The story focuses on Mike Enslin, an author and paranormal investigator who, oddly enough, doesn't actually believe in the paranormal. Against the desperate urging of hotel manager Gerald Olin, Enslin books the room after threatening Olin with legal action. Unsurprisingly, he soon learns Olin was right. Many King fans pointed to as the standout story of Everything's Eventual, and in , a film adaptation of was released. Jackson as Olin, was a critical and commercial hit, and is generally considered one of the best King-based movies to date.

Yet, the ending audiences saw in theaters was the end result of big changes to the original conclusion. The beginning of 's end is the same in both the theatrically released cut and the director's cut, which contains the originally planned conclusion.

The room tries to get Mike Enslin to commit suicide, but he refuses, turning the tables by managing to light the cursed location on fire and burn it down, much to Olin's delight. In the theatrical cut, an epilogue scene sees Mike back at home with his wife Lily, who doubts his story of what happened until she hears their dead daughter's voice on Mike's tape recorder.