1408 Trivias

The clock on the nightstand repeatedly shows "60:00" before the shock of the clock setting itself to 60:00 actually happens.Police investigations would almost certainly have occurred within room 1408 following one or more of the well publicized deaths, as is common practice when dealing with any suspected suicide or murder, yet there was no mention of any police related fatalities or occurrences within the room.When Mike Enslin is on the ledge outside, the size of the ledge changes. When there is a shot of just his feet, he appears to only be able to fit half of his foot on the ledge at most, however when there are long shots which include Enslin’s feet, they are fully on the ledge and are given about an inch of space.

During the scene where Mike unplugs the clock radio from the outlet, the champagne bottle that he was given disappears from the table for a few shots, then eventually returns.While Mike Enslin is lying on the floor, his hand goes in and out of the bed comforter repeatedly.

By the taskbar on Mike Enslin’s laptop, we see that he is using Windows XP as his operating system. When the fire sprinkler system comes on and sprays the computer, the laptop briefly displays some errors. One of these errors is a "Windows caused a fatal exception" (aka blue screen of death screen) error from a previous version of Windows (Windows ME or prior), not the XP fatal exception message that appears with text in the top of the screen, not in the center of the screen.After he eats one of the chocolates, the other chocolate remains on the pillow, then in the next scene there are no chocolate on the pillow. A couple of scenes later, he grabs/eats said chocolate from pillow.

The initial inspiration for Stephen King came from a collection of real-life news stories about Parapsychologist, Christopher Chacon's investigation of a notoriously haunted room at the famous Hotel Del Coronado in Coronado, California.Kate Walsh was originally cast in this film, but was forced to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with the television show 'Grey's Anatomy'. She was replaced by Mary McCormack.

The story this film was based on was almost never written. Stephen King originally created the first few pages of '1408' for his nonfiction book, "On Writing," as an example of how to revise a first draft. The story, however, intrigued him, and he wound up not only finishing a complete draft, but adapting it for an audio-book compilation of short stories.There are many references to the number "13" throughout the movie. The room 1408, add each number together makes 13. The room is on the 14th floor, and the Hotel skips the 13th floor, so its technically on the 13th floor. The room's key lock also has "6214" which adds up to 13. And the first death was in the year 1912, which adds to 13.

One of the first victims of the room was named "Grady." Grady was a character in "The Shining," Stephen King's other horror story about a hotel.Mike Enslin has a Chicago White Sox hat. Chicago is John Cusack's home town.