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