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You're referring to the alternate ending of 1408, now available on the two disc version of the DVD. In this ending writer Mike Enslin has died setting fire to room 1408. He is buried and then is seen in the room where he hears his daughter's voice calling him and says "yes, of course", not "well done". Mike then walks back into the destroyed room 1408 and, ghost-like, fades through the door. This is meant to show that he is merely surveying the destruction of the room, not that he has himself become trapped within it, and is now leaving to be with his daughter.

In the original ending the firefighters force entry into the room and rescue Enslin as he curls under the coffee-table, delighted that the room is dying. Enslin recovers in a New York hospital, Lily at his bedside. He swears that he saw Katie, but Lily refuses to believe him. After his recovery, Enslin moves back in with Lily, beginning work on a new novel that has nothing to do with his previous cheap haunted sites series. While sorting through a box of items from his night in 1408, Enslin comes across his mini cassette recorder. After some difficulty he manages to get the tape to play; it begins with Enslin's dictation of 1408's appearance, but cuts in with audio from his interaction with the apparition of his daughter. Lily freezes in shock as she hears her dead daughter's voice coming from the tape recorder, and the film closes on Enslin meeting her shocked stare with one of grim vindication.

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The movie 1408 is about a hotel room in New York City that is haunted by an evil presence. EVERYBODY who has ever stayed there has died in the room, until eventually the hotel manager had to close it off and not allow anyone to stay there.

A writer, Mike Enslin, decides he wants to check it out. He is a burnt-out fiction writer who's started writing books about supposedly haunted places. After his young daughter died, he started a personal quest for evidence of paranormal phenomenon, to prove to himself that there is an afterlife. But he has never found any, and now he is deeply skeptical about the existence of spirits and ghosts.

So when he learns about room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel, he is determined to check it out. Although the hotel manager, Mr. Olin (played by Sam Jackson) tries very hard to dissuade him, Enslin will not back down, threatening to sue the hotel if they won't let him stay in the room. So, Mr. Olin gives Mike Enslin the key...

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