1408 - the film vs. short story

I'm amazed.
It's unbelievable what Mikael Håfström got out of a short story on 35 pages.
The film begins in another place and the story begins right at the time when Mike Enslin arrives to Hotel Dolphin in New York. The poor hotel manager tries to convince Enslin to stay away from the haunted room, 1408, if the room is really haunted? Is it the devil or is it a wizard's power or what is going on in that evil room? We will never know.

The short story takes place in Hotel Dolphin and we only know a little bit about Enslin's past, we know he has written books about haunted places and he has been married. We know he has been a smoker and he loves whisky. The description of the hotel and the manager is long and detailed, even though I automatically think of minimalism when I read novels. Of course there is a bit minimalism, as I said, we don't know Enslin's past and we don't know what he looks like, but the details of his work and the room. We get a feeling of what this room looks like and the paintings on the walls. The paintings change during the story and it is a little min f''king for the reader.
So what happens?
The first guy that died in room 1408 was a sewer salesman, he died in 1910. The first victim of Hotel Dolphin's demonic room.
The room starts a fire, Mike Enslin is trapped. Now he can only be saved by a sewer sales man. Even though he is out he is still in the room somehow, he's paranoid even though he suffers from amnesia, his mind is deserted.

The film takes place in different scenarios, you see him at a beach, a book signing and haunted rooms. Then he arrives at hotel Dolphin in New york and meets the manager who is trying to convince him to stay away from the room. He shows some pictures from the past 'murderess'.
In the film you really get to see how the room truly shows it's horror. You meet some weird kind of human thing which you are not really sure is human. It reminds him of how he used to treat his wife and daughter (he was probably drunk) and then you meet his dead daughter. You believe that mr. Enslin gets out of the room and everything seems perfect but suddenly there's a plot twist and you meet his daughter in the hotel room. The film has too endings, the one with the firefighters saving Enslin and the other one where mr. Enslin has a sad passing, choose which one you wanna watch ;)

See ya,
XoxO

'Mirrors'

I normally don't watch horror films which include mirrors. Mirrors are creepy so they don't have to be included in horror films. What is a mirror? Are they just a reflection of what you are doing? are they a window to another dimension? can they tell you the future or what can they do? This is one of the more disturbing horror films I have watched. And that is a compliment to the producers of this film. I did not find it scary though, I could just feel how this film was playing with my mind. I'm sensitive towards supernatural and paranormal things. I like the beginning when you see a running man, what is he running from and what is happening in his mirror reflection down in the subway station? He seems very desperate and obedient to what ever is controlling him from inside the mirror.
A new guy takes over to watch the Mayflower, a big shopping center which was burned down by a guy the media think is a lunatic. The only things that wasn't touched by the fire were the mirrors. They reflect the bad energies when you see people burning alive inside them. The watchman is scared, of course, who wouldn't be?
He wants to know what's going on and why does he go down in the creepy basement through a creepy door and it's dripping at the end of the stairs? People in horror films are so stupid.
His wife is not easy to convince about what's going on, she doesn't believe it before she sees it herself. The mirrors are evil and seem to collect bad energies from the humans it kills.
If you suffer from a phobia for mirrors (the internet had too many different names for it, so I will not include it here), don't watch this film. If you are not a hardcore horror fan, don't watch it..
If you like me love horror, go watch it.
A guy from my class (former soldier in Afghanistan) doesn't dare to watch it because I told him that I found it disturbing, he found 'The Conjuring' very scary and I found it rather boring, so whatever movie I feel disturbing... IS disturbing ;)

Have a nice day
XOXO