1408 (2007) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION 

***This is the director's cut, with the darker of the two possible endings. It's the only copy we were able to get, and was not a choice. It's simply what we had. Just throwing it out there so people know yes, this is not the only ending, and no, it wasn't a choice, it was simply availability.

The theatrical ending has him out, helping his wife pack up his stuff in LA, presumably with the intent of moving back to New York with her. He gets his tape recorder back from the investigators, it survived the fire in the room. He starts playing it, hearing his voice describe the room, and his wife hears it too. Then, they hear their daughter’s voice on the recorder, we hear the scene we saw happen, and Mike just looks at his wife, while she drops what she was holding and looks shocked as all hell. Mike just keeps looking at her with this expression that says: do you believe me now? Personally, I think that’s a more powerful ending.

"If you got a little folder about the room, I don't wanna fuck with the room no more" Words to live by right there.

“This hotel petty as fuck.” 😂

another thrilling John Cusack movie is “Identity”(2003). both of these movies I barely remember.(no spoilers)

The janitor: ‘You think I’m coming in there? Sheeeeeeeeet…’

15 Fun Facts About “1408” 1. Stephen King’s original story began as a sample of how to write a first draft in his nonfiction book “On Writing”. However, he liked the story so much that he completed it. 2. Allegedly inspired by the real life haunted Emily Morgan Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. However, the hotel does not actually have a room 1408. 3. Initially Kate Walsh was cast as Mike’s ex-wife, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with Grey’s Anatomy. 4. Swedish director Mikael Håfström was best known for his 2003 horror movie Evil. He would then go on to direct the Anthony Hopkins-starring exorcism movie The Rite in 2011. 5. Early on in production, Keanu Reeves was attached to play Mike Enslin, before John Cusack was cast. 6. The numbers in 1408 add up to 13 (1+4+8), and since most hotels do not have a 13th floor due to superstition, this just results in the 14th floor actually being the 13th one in actuality. (It isn't just hotels most buildings that have over 13 floors won't actually call the 13th floor the 13th floor I do a lot of work in Boston and most of them skip right over that floor number) 7. During production, Mary McCormack (Mike’s ex-wife Lily) was pregnant, and thus most of her shots had be done from the waist up. 8. The fictional Dolphin Hotel was comprised of the the Roosevelt Hotel in NYC (for exteriors) and its lobby was The Reform Club in London, England. 9. Room 1408 itself was shot entirely on a soundstage at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England. 10. Allegedly, the axe used by the firefighter to break the door down was the same one used by Jack Nicholson in The Shining, since both films were shot in the same studio space and the axe was in storage with other props. 11. In another Shining reference, one of the earlier victims of room 1408 was named Grady. 12. The original ending was reshot because test audiences found it to be too much of a “downer”. The new theatrical ending saw Mike survive and escape room 1408. While the original, much darker ending is featured on the Director’s Cut. 13. Many fans were also disappointed that Samuel L. Jackson’s iconic line, “I warned you about 1408” was present in the trailer but not the theatrical film. 14. John Cusack was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actor, but lost to Will Smith for I Am Legend. 15. 1408 was a decent box office hit, grossing $133 million on a $25 million budget.

I counted 19 STFUs, but I should have counted the jump scares 🤣 love your reactions J ❤

I watched this movie back in the day. It got under my skin. Especially that song. I hadn't watched this movie in probably a decade, and I was somewhere, and that song was playing. Even after all those years, as soon as I heard that song, I got that feeling again. The creepy feeling that this movie gives people.

The way I interpreted his laughter at the end, he wasn't going crazy. He was a bit manic, but he was laughing because of what the room was doing. When he set the room on fire, initially it tried to extinguish it with the sprinklers. When that didn't work, the room began to taunt him with his dead daughter again, which made him laugh. The room lost, it was dying and couldn't save itself, and in it's pettiness, was lashing out at him. He recognized the room lashing out for what it was, and laughed at it, because there was nothing it could do to hurt him at that point. He was going to die, had already taken all the emotional abuse the room could throw at him, and in the end he'd won because he'd killed the room. In short: he was laughing at the room's petulant, spiteful death throes. The room was mad because it was going to die, and it's pathetic attempts to hurt him one last time were, in the moment, funny to him.

This movie is the rarest of cases. It's the one Stephen King adaptation that is far superior to the original story. It was written as an example story for his book On Writing, and he ended up finishing it. It plays out like a fever dream where all manner of spooky things happen, but he is never locked in the room. The movie fleshed things out in so many good ways even King loved it.

This movie was the only test screening I was ever at. But by that point they were testing the cut that ended up in the movies with the ending where Mike survives, the ending I personally prefer.

I saw this one in the theater and even after reading the short story (because the movie expands a LOT on it, in the best possible way) I was NOT ready.

This is legitimately the scariest movie I’ve ever seen, and I have been watching horror forever. It’s so underrated.

I've loved horror movies since I was a kid. Many I enjoy watching over & over. This one, The Shining, The Mist & The Descent are 4 of my favs.

I love John Cusack & I'm hoping you'll put "Identity" on your list of future reactions. It's a twisty good ride with Ray Liotta & a good cast keeping Cusack company. It's terrific. 💙💫💙💫💙💫💙💫💙💫💙

The diffrence in the cuts is the ending, if it's not been spoiled for you already, youtube the other ending. Also, only reactor I've seen catch the 'The Dolphin' is not a failing hotel, immediately throwing Mike's theory on haunted hotels out the window. And they can happily run without letting out the room, and they in fact want it empty.

After a long tough week finally time to relax and enjoy this. So happy to here with J the copilots and every one else 😉

"You do drink don't you?" "Of course. I just said I was a writer." Fun Fact: Mary McCormack was pregnant throughout filming, explaining why most shots of her are filmed above the waist. Inspirational Background Fact: The initial story inspiration came from a collection of real-life news stories about world-renowned parapsychologist Christopher Chacon's investigation of the most notoriously haunted hotel rooms in the world. In the U.S. alone Chacon has investigated hundreds of haunted hotels, from New York City to San Francisco, such as The Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, Battery Carriage House in South Carolina, the Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana and the Hotel Del Coronado in Coronado in California. Legal Enthusiast Fact: 1408 (2007) was actually quite accurate in stating that there are laws in place within the United States forcing hotels to accept any guests. While this does not necessarily mean they can request any room they want and stay there as portrayed in the film, innkeepers and hotel/motel owners have a legal duty to accept guests. The hotel owner has the right to reject or expel persons whom he or she reasonably deems objectionable. It has to be objectively reasonable, though (claiming the hotel room the guest wants is haunted would not be likely to be found in a court of law to be a reasonable basis for rejecting a guest). There are also anti-discrimination laws in place to protect hotel guests of protected groups. The only way Mike Enslin (John Cusack) could be rejected or removed would be if he had no intention of being a guest, if he were being a nuisance, damaging property, if he refused to pay due fees, or if he were suspected to injure the hotel's business or guests in a hazardous and uncomfortable or dangerous situation. If room 1408 was deemed damaged or unsafe, Enslin would not be able to stay there - however, claiming a room is haunted by ghosts doesn't count, nor does there being earlier deaths or crimes in the room stand up as a reasonable basis to bar a guest from using a particular room.

OMG YES!! 1408! I can't wait for this!

The song "We've Only Just Begun" is a classic 70s hit from the Carpenter's sung by the late great legend Karen Carpenter who died from complications from her dealing with anorexia. They had many hits including Please Mr. Postman, Rainy Days and Mondays, Top of the World, Only Yesterday and their Christmas album is second to none. I do agree that they tweaked the song so be extra loud and twisted it to sound creepy but the original version isn't creepy at all and is a love song.

Fun fact! When he kicks the helmet, he actually breaks his foot! Crazy good acting...oh wait

Just started my new job and saw this when I got off. Can't wait to unwind and check this out 🍿🎧💖

@JL this was the first time you were watching a film I had not seen, will go look for this for sure to tie up what can not be shown. You are an amazing reactor, with a great heart. Thank you and the EOM staff for the community here. Best to you and the dogs and your inner circle.

Dude!!!! This movie is THE BEST!!! Another Stephen King story 🙌🏻 This is one of the few horror movies that creeped me out baaad!!! Spooky a$$ $hit like that!?! Nope! John Cusack is a great actor! And the character didn’t deserve what that damn room did to him 😭

New comment on an older video... a tshirt, a Hawaiian shirt and a suit jacket is a fantastic combination. The epitome of fashion.

This movie left me so emotional drained! It's so underrated. Thank you for doing this reaction to it. It was so good to watch and I really enjoyed it. Your videos have been really helping me mentally lately so bless you for that. ❤

The song is We've Only Just Begun by The Carpenters.

There’s actually another ending where he gets saved by the firefighters and writes a book about it, and then the ending he plays the cassette recorder and his wife hears there daughter talking to him

The other ending (that I prefer) where he is rescued from the fire and Sam Jackson tells him he was only in the room for like 30 minutes or something like that. That is the best and craziest ending.

If anybody noticed, everytime Mr. Jay something that you all knows it's gonna be funny, that's when the song It Only Just Begin begins playing by the Carpenter.

"How else imma lock my door" had me laughing so hard 🤣 youre hilarious love your channel

Ok but JL, one word: Prisoners. Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal are amazing in this must see!

I love your progression of 1408 character. From problem to monster

This movie scard me so bad! Great reaction man!

I'm so glad CCR made it on the channel they have soo many great songs. CCR-( Born On The Bayou)(Have You Ever Seen The Rain)(Green River)(Up Around The Bend)(Lodi) there's so many more.

We know when a movie is too much that cartoons will be required afterwards as a chaser! Thanks for another great review! Haven’t seen this film for a long time...now I remember why. Hugs to the copilots! ❤️🤪

18:35 on top of the warnings, he bribed him $800 in good liquor not to go in!

One of the scariest movies ive ever seen is Hostel. Its creepy af and the worst part is its gotta be stuff like that that goes on in this messed up world

The theatrical version the fire fighters drag him out of the room and he is with his wife and he rewrites the book and says it’s easy to write because when you’ve already wrote it . His wife brings out the box of all the stuff he had in room 1408 and he gets the tape recorder out and gets it to start working and while his wife had a box in her hand they hear the daughters voice talking to him in the hotel room and their eyes meet and he was like I told you. That was the best ending!!! The shared cringe factor made it that much creepier.

"We've Only Just Begun" by The Carpenters. That's the song the radio keeps playing.

when the lady swipe at him when he climbed back in the window and you jumped i damn near pissed myself hahahahahahahaahahahaa love the vids man

He burned the room,so nobody else has to go through the horror

How many jumpscares? Let's see: 10:51 13:03 13:36 14:50 15:15 little one 22:22 22:55 23:12 24:28 24:41 25:28 26:49 43:35 Think I got them all. I forgot to count the STFU's.

that’s song was in “Happy Gilmore”. Chubbs sings it at the end.

LMAO... "He told you this many times..." 🙌🙌🙌

J, you made it through quite a tense movie and I swear I didn't laugh too much at the jump scares. Excellent reaction and editing you guys. God bless you guys with excellence!

The song that was playing is called " We've only just begun" by the Carpenters. It's a love song but they made it sound creepy in this movie

Good night Everyone from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹🇹🇹

he told you this 🖐🏼🖐🏼🖐🏼🖐🏼🖐🏼many mother f***ng reasons !!! 🤣🤣🤣

LOL "He told you this many 🖐🖐🖐🖐🖐🖐🖐 times"

Had to look up the song. We've Only Just Begun was a song in a commercial for a fricking bank in 1970 but it came to fame as a single performed by the Carpenters later that same year after they secured the rights. It was their big break hit.

J, I have a suggestion: Frequency (2000) with Jim Caviezel and Dennis Quaid. It has to do with a ham radio that connects a father and son across three decades... and they have to catch a killer. Thrills and feels. 🙂

Omg the theatrical ending is so much !!!!!!!!! better. It doesnt have the funeral/sam jackson stuff, Jackson just says "well done". Leaves his character as cool and smooth instead of paniced in that last mirror jumpscare that makes no sense. Enslin lives but plays the recorder for his wife later and they hear their daughters voice so she realizes what he went through was real.

The song is The Carpenter's We've only just begun.

Such a great, underpriciated movie. Thanks for this.

Besides 'The Mist', this is one of my favorite suspense/horror movies based on a short story.

If Samuel L. Jackson tells me he's afraid of something, I'm afraid of it, too. That's a rule for life.

John Cusack plays the same guy in every movie that I have seen him in. Just has a different name. Heartbroken, and depressed.

JL and his copilots are the best. For your information, the song is called "we've only just begun" by the Carpenters if you want to listen to it 🤣😂🤣

The pettiest hotel! Great choice btw.

I'm so excited for this reation! Much love from me and my co pilot Toby!!!

I love this movie. It's one of my favorite horror movies. "What happens when the time runs out?" That's a good question. 🎶 we've only just begun🎶

If you ask me point blank, this is my favorite horror film. John Cusack's performance is incredible. I strongly prefer the other ending, but it's hard to find.

The song was The Carpenters.

I love the way you tell it to shut up 😂

The original ending where he gets out and hears the tape recording is the Only Ending ❤️ I will say this, that jump scare in the alternate ending isn’t bad is it 😆 Great Reaction!

Oh I'm looking forward to seeing you react to this!😊

Typos. Part 2 The guy fell and asked for side one night while in his room The man's mom called hospital - police stated it was her son that died inside hospital room but she did not visit him A woman asked to bury him Money was sent for buriel No one saw either woman

I like how low key creepy the theatrical ending, because we get to let someone else into the idea that whatever people on the outside experience, the things that happened in the room, all happen - no matter how impossible. Frankly, I had the room pegged. I never thought he made it out until the fire. In the Director’s Cut, though-I didn’t think of this before-I think it’s actually just implying that the room can’t harm anyone anymore. Jackson (the manager) was smiling, despite the situation, to tell her the thing that got interrupted. I think he was trying to console her with her husband’s remarkable victory Thanks for letting us watch with you. Glad you enjoyed it 💙

To be fair to the room, it's been made painfully clear that the room is a menace. It killed 50 people. Yet no one wants to talk about it. It's everyone else that's the reason the room is killing everyone. Hotel should have boarded up that room with some plywood and wallpaper and forget it ever existed. If the room makes a habit of making that impossible, then tell anyone who requests to sod off and then forcefully remove them if they won't.

Love this movie! So happy you're reacting to it!

In the original he lives and his wife thinks he was trippin the whole time about what happened until she hears their daughters voice on his tape recorder

Wow, I never saw this alternate ending that JL just saw. This is a very different ending.

The door doesn’t open until the maintenance man comes The windows around him strangely disappear when he tries to escape that way,they were way to high anyway

Great reaction as always! Makes me think of another underrated scary film you should watch.. As Above, So Below

We weren't laughing at you, EOM; this movie is terrifying. I don't trust anyone who can sit through a movie like this unmoved, with a disdainful smirk on their face. I know someone like that, and they're creepier than anything in room 1408.

That’s one petty room,bringing his daughter into this

Another great John Cusack psychological thriller movie is 'Identity'. You must watch it!

(Sept 2023) Samuel Jackson 5:12 5:24 6:28 6:37 7:27 8:04 Alarm starts10:50 11:14 13:07 13:50 17:22 25:55 28:12 29:00 39:00 40:49

On the Shiver Scale, I award this Reaction 10/10 💀's

Dude! You went to Halloween mode early! lol! My favorite movie anyways! 😂

One of my favorite horror films. You are hilarious bro. Great reaction! 👍🏿

His jump scare @ 10:50 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

In a way, you could say he was seeking the room the whole time, that he so desperately wanted to be with his daughter, the room called to him. That's one theory anyway. 😀 And I can't even with you...the room is so petty!! 😆 🤣 😆 🤣 Nailed it!!

Never seen that ending. 🤔 But see'ing it now, I definitely prefer the other ending when he's with his wife and he pulls out the recorder

saw this back in 2007 in theaters with my mama and sister and it was good

When Samuel Jackson tells you not to stay in THAT ROOM. You don't stay in that room. ☠️.

Man this movie is wild I remember when it first came out. And when I seen you were gonna watch It. I knew you were going to be in trouble.😂

14:30 he had one last chance to leave the room and stay out of the room... And of course it was the honest black repair man who was the one who offered him that opportunity to leave the cursed room, lol! Get out, man!!!

I hope you don't get sick of me asking. But....... 1. Sleepers 2. Gone Baby Gone 3. Inception 4. The Boondock Saints

Ya I watched the other version and preferred it more to this one but they're both great. I watched it high as a kite first time watching and I think it's great.. very underrated! Thanks for posting!

Seeing Tony Shalhoub at the end made me remember a great movie you should check out. "Thirteen Ghosts" would be amazing to see you watch that! 😂

Cool reaction, thanks. I think this ending is okay but I like the theatrical version ending much better. It’s more optimistic after the main character and his wife had suffered so much grief and loss. John Cusack’s performance was excellent and his sadness was palpable and so relatable. I believe he did an amazing job of carrying most of this film on his own. Looking forward to your next movie reaction. Have you ever checked out Bowfinger with Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy? It’s truly hilarious.

🎶 We've only just begun 🎶

Great video man, this movie has always been one of my favorite horror movies. The room feels so overwhelmingly evil in a very depressing way. Out of all the Stephen King based movies, this one is a different feeling. Even compared to Overlook, this room has cosmic horror strangeness all over it .

You gotta watch another John Cusak thriller after this. It’s called IDENTITY and it’s a classic

I just watched this last week, and i don't envy you for having to do this with headphones on 🤪

This the only time I was relieved to see an ad 😂. Need a minute to settle my nerves.

What creeps me out with this movie is how the room messes with your mind to the point you don't know what is really going on. Definitely one of the better King adaptation.