Have you ever watched a movie with endless memories, yes, today's movie will make people feel like they are on the scene, they are detectives, can't help but analyze every detail, welcome to watch "Phantom Murder 1408".
Mike is a best-selling horror novel writer, and in order to make the content of the novel more realistic, he likes to experience the horror atmosphere of various ghost places in person.
Hotels everywhere also like to rub the heat, create horrors in the room, invite Mike to come and experience, you know, if Mike writes into the novel, it will become a hot internet celebrity hotel.
However, Mike is a seasoned old fritter who rates the horror atmosphere of the various hotels, but he never believes that there are ghosts in this world, and Mike will regularly go to the bookstore to sign up and discuss with fans which places are the most terrifying.
On this day, I went to the beach to play surfing, and I was inattentively hit into the sea by a strong wave, and finally washed to the shore by the sea to pick up a life, but this seems to happen often when surfing.
Then Mike went to get his own email, most of which were fan letters, one of the postcards said "Do not enter 1408", Mike found it very interesting, wrote "=13", 1+4+0+8=13 on the picture, and 13 is the most taboo number in the West, it is said that many elevators in the West do not have 13 floors (not in the movie).
He called to book room 1408 of the hotel, but was always refused, and Mike thought to himself: The sprinkler family is so good, why don't you let me stay.
He then began to collect information online about Room 1408, where there had been a lot of murders, which increased his professional interest, and he called his publisher and asked for legal access to 1408.
The publisher advised him, are you sure you want to go there, it's New York, your ex-wife and your dead daughter are there, Mike said he wouldn't stay long, he insisted on going there to see.
Arriving at the mysterious hotel, Mike announces his name, but the computer says "Notify the manager before check-in".
The manager learns that Mike wants to stay in 1408, and he strongly opposes it, because there have been 56 murders in that room, and the causes of death are quite bizarre, and the manager counts the details of each murder and gives a thick book of the deceased to Mike.
He also deliberately gave Mike a bottle of good wine, hoping that he would change his mind, Mike tasted a sip of wine and thought it was good, but he still had to stay in 1408.
He believes that the manager's kind words and persuasion are all mysterious, there is no demon in the world, all the horror effects are man-made results, persuasion can not be, the manager finally made a compromise.
But on the way out, the manager kept talking, and he told Mike all about the horrors of 1408 and said that no one could stay in the room for 60 minutes.
However, Mike was not convinced, "You mean to say that there are ghosts in this room?" "No, I mean the whole room is a damn demon!"
They got on the elevator, and the floor of the elevator did not have 13 floors, which means that the 14 floors they went to were actually the 13th floor, and the 13th floor and the room number added up to equal 13 rooms, which was itself a symbol of evil in the local area, and the manager only sent it to the 13th floor, and left without getting off the elevator.
Mike was flipping through the pictures of the deceased as he walked toward 1408, where a waiter passed by and took a few steps, and there was a stall of food with flies at his feet, and by 1408, the room was still with an old-fashioned metal lock, because all the electronic devices would fail in this room.
Mike carefully entered the room, and after he put down a cigarette, he began to check everything, the room was clean, there was no trace of death or evil, there was a writing desk, an antique wardrobe, wallpaper with small flowers, a few oil paintings.
He poked his head out of the window and recorded while analyzing the hotel's intentions, when the bedside radio suddenly rang, and Mike found that the tissues that had just been twitching in the bathroom had also been sorted out, but there was no one in the room inside and out, he began to feel hot and restless, it turned out that the air conditioner was broken, and Mike called the electrician.
At the same time, an in-depth investigation of the room was made, and under the glow stick, the traces of the deceased in the room were obvious, and the oil paintings on the walls began to become crooked.
The electrician came up, but refused to enter the room, he commanded Mike from a distance, and after the air conditioner was repaired, he hurried away.
Not long after, the bedside radio rang on its own again, and suddenly the electronic meter jumped and began to count down to 60 minutes. Did the manager say the countdown to death? Kind of interesting!
Then Mike suddenly lost his hearing, the sound of electricity all over the room, he stuck his head out of the window to try to find the source of the sound, but his left hand was suddenly hit by the sudden falling window and bleeding, he hurriedly rinsed the wound, and the cold water suddenly became hot again.
When the radio was singing again, Mike hurriedly unpluged the power, but time was still moving.
The phone rang, Mike hurried to answer, he was angry to complain about customer service, but found that the phone line was channeled.
Mike's request was not answered, and he panicked: "You have won, you have won!" "
He slammed the door in a frenzy and tried to escape the room, but the doorknob was strangely broken, and he asked for help from the opposite floor, but what he saw was another self.
He began to see a series of apparitions, the furious masked man, the lamp that had been thrown out of the window but faded away, and he heard the call of his dead daughter.
Mike tried to stay sober: "People who are not clear-headed are susceptible to psychological cues."
He wanted to analyze everything that was happening in the room, when he suddenly found a camera in the vent, and he remembered the wine sent by the manager, thinking that he had been drugged, and all the damage should be his own hallucinations.
At this time, the TV set turned on automatically, playing a video of the Mike family, which was the pain in his heart, he lost his resistance in an instant, he couldn't help but want to drink again, see his daughter again, but he controlled.
Then Mike sees the illusion of dead customers in the same room, and one by one they choose to commit suicide.
He heard the cries of a child next door and slapped the wall for help, but the child's cries grew louder and louder until they were deafening.
Mike goes to the bathroom and sees Dad's vision, and Mike regains a little sanity, which may just be a nightmare.
He began to take stock of his real experiences before coming to the hotel, when he was on the train, when he ate breakfast, when he slept for the last time, and he decided that the environment he was in now was an illusion, and that he would not really die in the hallucination.
He tried to climb out of the window to another room, but found that the distance was getting farther and farther away, and finally he almost fell, so he had to go back to the room.
In the confusion, he took out his tape recorder to listen to the replay, and he saw his seriously ill daughter in the room.
Mike suddenly remembered his wife, he took out the notebook in his backpack and called his wife for help, at the critical time, the fire alarm in the house was turned on, the computer failed, and Mike once again lost the opportunity to call for help.
He climbed into the exhaust pipe and tried to escape, only to find that every window he could not face was the past that he could not face, and there was an eyeless zombie in the pipe, which was so terrifying that it brought Mike back to 1408.
Mike opens the refrigerator and sees the triumphant look of the manager, who is talking here: "You don't believe anything, you like to root out people's hopes, why people believe in the existence of ghosts, that's out of expectations after death." "
Mike yelled loudly, and in front of him were just some drinks and fruits, and he punched the manager, frantically stirring everything inside.
By this time Mike had completely lost his mind, he took another sip of wine, took out the guest room Bible, and the original scripture became blank.
Mike thinks of his daughter again, who is plagued by an illness that cannot be cured, and his wife tells her daughter fairy tales about heaven, but Mike does not believe them at all.
He thought he should fight the disease with all his might, rather than instilling the deceptive lies of Elysium, and then he received a fax of his daughter's relic.
At this point the room's air conditioning went from extremely hot to suddenly cold, Mike used self-suggestion to stay awake and drink to stay warm, he saw the notebook display the image again, in the video, the wife said she had called the police, the police are now at the Dolphin Hotel 1408, but the room is empty.
Soon another Mike appeared in the notebook, and this Mike asked his wife for help and asked her to come to Room 1408 herself.
Then cracks appeared in the room, cracks appeared everywhere, the house began to rain, and the paintings on the walls began to become vicious and terrifying.
Mike smashes an oil painting of the sea, and the sea rushes in and fills the room.
Then the camera turns, Mike returns to the beach where he was surfing before, the drowning Mike is lying in the hospital, his wife is taking good care of him, he asks his wife anything about 1408, and her wife says that she has never experienced it at all, is it a nightmare before?
Then Mike and his wife go on a date, and the two of them make love to each other as if they are back to their original beauty.
Mike came again to collect the letter, but without the postcard of 1408, he completed the novel about 1408 in the days that followed, and visited his long-lost father in the nursing home, all warm and beautiful.
Mike came to the mailing point again, and the staff inside was exactly the same as the staff of the hotel.
Suddenly they start smashing glass against walls, uncovering the ground and ceiling, and then the sky spins around, and Mike finds himself still in room 1408.
What he had just done might have been just his imagination, but this time he successfully opened the door and saw endless darkness.
At this time the daughter appeared again, and she asked in a loud voice: Do you not love me anymore, Mike gave in and knelt down to hug his daughter, but the daughter died in his arms again, and once again, the radio rang again, and the daughter instantly turned to dust.
Mike frantically smashed everything around him, time passed by second by second, and finally returned to a brand new 1408, the electronic watch began to re-time, another 60 minutes, Mike was tortured in this infinite 60 minutes, the front desk phone called, asking Mike if he needed to check out (referring to suicide).
Then there were various ways of suicide in the room, even seeing his dead self, he picked up the phone again and told the other party: "I will check out, but not in your way."
The phone rang again, and the customer service said, "Your wife has come over, we will arrange for her to go up", Mike responded, you can't hurt her, I will end this matter, and then he saw the phone melt a little, but in the blink of an eye it was intact.
But Mike calmed down a lot this time, and he made a serious choice, he was going to die with this devil's room, and he used wine as fuel to set the whole room on fire.
At this time Mike's wife rushed downstairs, the downstairs was in chaos, Mike regained his previous self-confidence, made a final evaluation of the room, the room decoration is ugly, the air is dirty, but in terms of horror index, I gave the Dolphin Hotel 10 skulls.
No longer afraid, he smashed the glass with an ashtray, and the originally enclosed room exploded in an instant, Mike laughed wildly in the flames, and the door number of 1408 melted with it.
At Mike's funeral, the hotel manager sends a relic to Mike's wife, but her wife refuses: This is not my way of remembering him.
The manager returned to the car, he opened the box, inside was Mike's tape recorder, pressed the play button, it was Mike's recording in room 1408, but strangely, the tape recorder actually appeared mike's daughter's voice.
He looked back in the rearview mirror, and the burned-out Mike flashed by, and the manager was startled and drove away in panic.
At the end of the film, in the burned-out room of 1408, Mike and his daughter are eternally together, and the film ends.
This movie is full of doubts, and the Tens of Thousands of Words of Douban Film Review have not revealed the doubts in the hearts of netizens.
I've watched this movie several times, and I think it's more about the difference between physical and psychological fear.
At first, the male protagonist did not believe in the theory of the ghost of the soul, and the fear he talked about was only a superficial horror.
When he really entered 1408, what he felt was the inner fear in his subconscious, or the psychological shadow.
He was afraid to face his past, afraid to face his dead daughter, afraid to face his old father, he was afraid to the extreme, but finally opened his heart knot and was liberated.
The whole plan is planned by the manager, first of all, his malicious image design can be explained, in addition, who will put the information of the deceased into the office, and pack it so well, this is not perverted, the manager is familiar with Mike's books, understand his personality and experience, and try to lure Mike to stay in 1408.
There are two points about his motivation, which are mentioned in the film, the first is that although the hotel has many customers, it is not the best, and the news event will increase the hotel's business (it seems to be the opposite in China).
However, I recently looked at it, and I think that the business of the hotel is actually very miserable, it looks like a city, it is likely to be invited to the trust, because from the outside of the hotel, the whole building, there are few rooms lit.
When Mike talks to the manager, the camera spins and the background blurs, which feels like telling the audience that the group behind them are not real customers.
In addition, there is a waiter on the 14th floor, but there is food on the ground that has not been packed for a long time, indicating that the waiter may also be just an actor, and the manager wants to increase the heat of the hotel, so he plans all this, which is the manager's first motivation.
The second motivation is that the manager personally wants to teach Mike, an atheist, mentioned in the refrigerator dialogue, how can you destroy other people's expectations of death, most people do not believe in the existence of ghosts, but when facing deceased relatives, they still expect to talk to them, saying that they "have knowledge under the spring", which is actually a kind of thought, the living person's thoughts about their relatives.
So if there are no demons in the world, what is the explanation for everything in the room?
Most of them are psychological cues or hallucinations, and the manager tells Mike in detail about the tragic situation of the deceased in the office, and gives him a thick copy of the deceased's information, so that he can keep flipping through it, that is, to let the shadow of the deceased enter Mike's subconscious.
Everything in 1408 is a combination of virtual and real, giving people the feeling of demonic existence.
The male protagonist Mike also intersperses back and forth between reality and illusion, and in general, the things that the male protagonist brings in and the initial furnishings in the room are real, such as wine, lighters, tape recorders, cigarettes and ashtrays, and the subsequent injuries, burns, pain, and cold These feelings are all false, because the feelings we feel when we have nightmares are exactly the same as the feelings of reality.
From the time when the male protagonist first chose to escape, his inner fear psychology has begun to occupy a dominant position, when the male protagonist is somewhat schizophrenic in it, making the right choice when rational, and making selfish performances when afraid.
This is the most proof in the last video with his wife, the rational Mike wants his wife to call the police and stay away from 1408, and the scared Mike wants his wife to rush over to save himself, the death of his daughter, his selfish self in the past, the quarrel with his father and the drowning while surfing, are all the content that the male protagonist is afraid to face.
He struggled for a long time in 1408, and fantasized that he was back to the original point, which was equivalent to taking a regret pill for himself and making the right choice again, so when he returned to 1408 again and decided to die with this room, he was calm.
The end of the film is not about the existence of ghosts, but means that Mike really wants to be with his daughter in his heart, and her daughter's voice on the tape recorder is Mike's own imitation of her daughter's voice when she is divided.
This movie has a lot of small doubts, if you really explain one by one, you can't finish it for an hour, I don't believe you can search for the film reviews of this movie, this movie is suitable for many people to watch repeatedly together, to ensure that you can quarrel until you fight.
Well, today's show is here, thank you for watching, we'll see you next time, bye-bye!