Why is room 1408 haunted

Who knew Karen Carpenter was scary? In , a Stephen King spookfest set in a seriously poltergeisted hotel, the clock radio keeps clicking on the same old song. Even when travel writer Mike Enslin John Cusack yanks the cord from the wall, the tune keeps playing. After a while, the horror turns to hooey.

The premise is simple: Enslin, a once-promising novelist scarred by personal tragedy, checks into New York's Dolphin Hotel. He writes guidebooks about putatively haunted hospitality spots, and legend has it that the Dolphin's room is ghost-plagued.

Guests have been maimed, gone insane, jumped from the windows and drowned in the tub. In fact, no one has survived unscathed for more than an hour within its tastefully decorated walls. Room 's death toll: 50, at least. During the climax, the viewers saw how Mike met his daughter in room and after a heartfelt conversation with him, she died in his arms.

In a fraction of a few seconds, Katie turned into ashes. Excluding the ending shown in the film, the director had three more endings. In the second ending, Mike survived the fire incident and started his life again with ex-wife Lily. Mike kept the possession box with him and lived happily ever after.

In the third ending, Lily learned that Mike actually talked to their dead daughter in the haunted room as she listened to the recorded conversation of Katie and Mike.

The fourth ending was quite confusing as the manager of the publication house received a courier, which was the first draft of Mike's experience in room Now follow your favourite television celebs and telly updates. Republic World is your one-stop destination for trending Bollywood news. Tune in today to stay updated with all the latest news and headlines from the world of entertainment.

The Debate. This may be a sign that real estate prices have got so out of line that not even poltergeists and vampires can afford to terrorise the city, and may eventually be forced to wreak havoc in Baltimore or Cedar Rapids. In addition to being a daunting symbol of a housing market gone mad, is an example of another expanding genre: the horror movie that makes no sense. Traditionally, moviegoers do not care how much stomach-turning mayhem occurs in the course of a motion picture, so long as they receive some explanation for the lunacy and bloodshed by the time they leave the theatre.

Thus, Frankenstein behaves uncivilly because he is mistreated by peasants, Dracula requires a steady supply of fresh blood in order to survive, Michael Corleone crosses over to the dark side in response to his bride's murder, and Norman Bates suffers from a mommy complex exacerbated by a sudden downturn in the regional hospitality industry.

In Paradise Lost Turistas , organ-plundering physicians in poverty-stricken nations prey on spoiled American kids in a cultural vendetta: you took our oil, we're taking your kidneys. Conversely, in , as in last year's arty thriller Cache, as in The Hitcher - a dire Sean Bean vehicle that came out earlier this year - viewers leave the theatre without the slightest idea why things have taken such a bad turn. Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche never find out why somebody has been leaving weird surveillance tapes of their comings and goings in their mailbox.

And at no point does anyone make any effort whatsoever to explain why the hotel room John Cusack checks into at the beginning of seems determined to kill him. Derived from a Stephen King short story, is basically The Shining for business travellers. Apprised by an anonymous source that room at what appears to be the Waldorf Hotel is the scariest piece of real estate in the country, Cusack, a hack travel writer who specialises in cranking out books about haunted houses, flies to New York, checks into the room, and then tries to survive a night in which everyone from the Ghost Of Christmas Past to his dead daughter turn up to scare the bejesus out of him.

Before doing so, he is warned by hotel manager Samuel L Jackson that everyone who has ever checked into Room has died, a chain of tragedies dating all the way back to the s.

But Cusack insists, so Jackson forks over the key, and now the room starts going to town on him. This is where things get really annoying.