1408 Movie Quotes
Mike Enslin
[Olin gives Enslin the room key]
Most hotels have switched to magnetics. An actual key. That's a nice touch, it's antiquey.
Gerald Olin
We have magnetic cards also, but electronics don't seem to work in 1408. Hope you don't have a pacemaker.
Gerald Olin
I have *never* used the word "phantom."
Mike Enslin
Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, spirit? Specter?
Gerald Olin
No, you misunderstand. Whatever's in 1408 is nothing like that.
Mike Enslin
Then what is it?
Gerald Olin
It's an evil fucking room.
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Gerald Olin
You do drink don't you?
Mike Enslin
Of course. I just said I was a writer.
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Room 1408
Even if you leave this room, you can never leave this room!
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[the problem about Mike staying in 1408]
Gerald Olin
Look, I'm not telling you not to stay in that room for your own good or for the profit of the hotel. Frankly, selfishly, I just don't want to clean up the mess.
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Mike Enslin
[talk into tape recorder]
Hotels are a naturally creepy place... Just think, how many people have slept in that bed before you? How many of them were sick? How many... died?
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Room 1408
You can choose to repeat this hour over and over again, or you can take advantage of our express checkout system.
[Mike looks into the other room and sees a hanging noose]
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Mike Enslin
The room's gotta be filthy. I mean, the sheets haven't been changed in... what, eleven years?
Gerald Olin
No no no. We're very professional here. 1408 gets a light turn once a month. I supervise, the maids work in pairs. We treat the room as if it's a chamber filled with poison gas. We only stay 10 minutes and I insist the door remain open. But still... A few years ago a young maid from El Salvador found herself locked in the bathroom. She was only there for a few moments, but when we pulled her out she was...
Gerald Olin
No. Blind. She had taken a pair of scissors and gouged her eyes out. She was laughing hysterically.
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Gerald Olin
The causes of death in 1408 range from heart attack, stroke, drowning.
Mike Enslin
Drowning?
Gerald Olin
Yes, one Mr. Grady Miller drowned in his chicken soup.
Mike Enslin
That's hard to do, h - how did he do that?
Gerald Olin
How indeed.
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Room 1408
Five. This is five. Ignore the sirens. Even if you leave this room, you can never leave this room.
Room 1408
[Voice changes and handset begins to melt] Eight. This is eight. We have killed your friends. Every friend is now dead.
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[Lily is reaching Mike Enslin via his laptop]
Lily Enslin
Michael? Can you hear me?
[Mike is freezing during a supernatural cold spell in Room 1408, but manages to crawl over to his laptop]
Mike Enslin
Yeah.
Lily Enslin
Oh, my God, thank God. Jesus, I've been trying to get through.
Lily Enslin
Yeah, yeah, they're at the hotel! Didn't you say the Dolphin?
Mike Enslin
Yes.
Lily Enslin
You're sure.
Mike Enslin
Yes. Yes. 1408.
Lily Enslin
Yeah. They're in 1408. The room's empty.
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Mike Enslin
Let's "Encyclopedia Brown" this bitch.
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Mike Enslin
Look man, just give me the key.
Gerald Olin
Mr. Enslin, you...
Mike Enslin
Just give me the key! Listen, I stayed... at the Bixby House. I brushed my goddamn teeth right next to the tub where Sir David Smith drowned his whole family, and I stopped being afraid of vampires when I was 12. Do you know why I can stay in your spooky old room, Mr. Olin? Because I know that ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties... don't exist. And even if they did, there's no God to protect us from them, now is there?
Gerald Olin
So I can't talk you out of this?
Mike Enslin
I think we've reached an understanding.
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Gerald Olin
[pats documents regarding 1408's victims]
I will let you have this, give you access to my office, you can take notes and put it all in your book. My only condition... is that you do not stay in that room.
Mike Enslin
You'll let me look at all that stuff?
[considering Olin's offer]
Gerald Olin
Hmm.
Mike Enslin
I never did get that drink.
[Olin pours a glass of the $800 whiskey, handing it to Enslin. Enslin takes a sip]
Mike Enslin
Ooh, that is good.
[hands bottle to Enslin]
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Mike Enslin
[after escaping from the ventilation shaft and falling back into 1408]
Ah, its good to be back.
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Mike Enslin
He gave me booze! Did he take a sip? I can't remember. Or maybe it was the chocolate! Don't take candy from strangers!
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Mike Enslin
Why don't you just kill me?
Room 1408
Because all guests of this hotel enjoy free will, Mr. Enslin.
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Mike Enslin
I was out!
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Mike Enslin
[after the toilet paper has been turned down, and the chocolates appear]
Finally! Something to for me to write about! A ghost that offers turn down service!
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Mike Enslin
[still yelling]
We should have helped her fight! Not filled her head up with bullshit stories of heaven, and clouds and nirvana!
[flips over coffee table]
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Gerald Olin
Why do you think people believe in ghosts? For fun? No. It's the prospect of something after death.
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Gerald Olin
What do you want, Mr. Enslin? You sought this room. Oh, that's right. You don't believe in anything. You like shattering people's hopes. Why do you think people believe in ghosts? For fun? No. It's the prospect of something after death. How many spirits have you broken?
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Mike Enslin
Is 1408 a smoking room?
Gerald Olin
As a matter of fact, it is. Yes.
Mike Enslin
Good, one less worry in the watches of the night.
Gerald Olin
Care for a cigar?
Mike Enslin
No thank you, I don't smoke.
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Mike Enslin
They say you can't die in your dreams... is that true?
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Gerald Olin
The first victim, Mr. Kevin O' Malley, sewing machine salesman, checked into the hotel the first week it opened, October, 1912.
Mike Enslin
Cut his own throat, right?
Gerald Olin
Well that's not the horrific part. Afterwards, in a fit of insanity, he tried to stitch himself back together using an old sewing needle before he bled to death.
[leans over Mike]
Mike Enslin
Easy, man.
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Mike Enslin
Stay scared.
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[repeated line]
Mike Enslin
All right. You win. You win.
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Katie
Are there people where I'm going?
Mike Enslin
Hey... you're not going anywhere, kiddo. You're going to stay right here with us.
Katie
Daddy... everyone dies.
Lily Enslin
When they're old.
Mike Enslin
When they're much older.
Lily Enslin
Okay? And then they go to a better place. It's beautiful there, all your friends will be there.
Katie
Is God there?
Mike Enslin
Yes.
Katie
Do you really believe that Daddy?
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Book Store Cashier
Where is the best place where I can see ghosts?
Mike Enslin
Guaranteed? Haunted Mansion, Orlando.
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[Into tape recorder, as he prepares to step out the window onto a ledge]
Mike Enslin
If something should happen, if I should slip and fall, I want it known that it was an accident. The room did not win.
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Mike Enslin
It's good to be back. That's enough of that. Alcohol.
[walks over to the mini-fridge and opens it, only to discover Gerald Olin talking to him]
Gerald Olin
I was just checking to see if the accommodations are exceeding your expectations.
Mike Enslin
YOU KNOW GODDAMN WELL THEY ARE! What do you want from me?
Gerald Olin
No, no, no. What do you want? What do you want, Mr. Enslin? You sought this room.
Mike Enslin
It was a job, I was just doing the job.
Gerald Olin
I beg your pardon?
Mike Enslin
My job, I'm a writer.
Gerald Olin
Oh, that's right, you don't believe in anything. You like shattering people's hopes.
Mike Enslin
Oh, that's bullshit!
Gerald Olin
Why do you think people believe in ghosts? For fun? No, it's the prospect of something after death. How many spirits have you broken?
Mike Enslin
What do you want from me? Huh? What do you want from me? You...
[starts violently ripping the fridge apart]
Mike Enslin
You little...
[kicks the fridge repeatedly]
Mike Enslin
WHAT DO YOU WANT? WHAT?
[slams the mini-fridge shut]
Mike Enslin
I want... my DRINK!
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Mike Enslin
[describing the room]
There's a sofa, a writing desk, faux antique armoire, floral wallpaper. Carpet's unremarkable except for a stain beneath a thrift-store painting of a schooner lost at sea. The work is done in the predictably dull fashion of Currier and Ives. The second painting is of an old woman reading bedtime stories - a Whistler knockoff - to a group of deranged children while another Madonna and child watch from the background. It does have the vague air of menace. The third and final, painfully dull painting, the ever popular "The Hunt". Horses, hounds and constipated British lords. Some smartass spoke about the banality of evil. If that's true, then we've in the 7th circle of hell.
[turns off tape recorder and pauses, then turns it back on]
Mike Enslin
It does have its charms.
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[examining the mini-bar in room 1408]
Mike Enslin
Eight dollars for Beer Nuts? This room *is* evil!
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[last lines]
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Gerald Olin
Well done Mr. Enslin, well done.
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Mike Enslin
The decor is in tatters and the staff's early. But on the Shiver Scale, I award the Dolphin Hotel ten skulls!
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Kevin O'Malley
[wheezing because his throat has been slit]
HELLLPPPP MEEEE...
Mike Enslin
...Oh no... no... OH, no no no no no NO! No, I can't help you!
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Gerald Olin
Hotels are all about presentation and fertile creature comforts.
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Katie
Daddy!
Mike Enslin
No, you're not real.
Katie
I'm cold!
Mike Enslin
No, you're not Katie!
Katie
I love you Daddy. Don't you love me anymore?
Mike Enslin
Of course I do, sweetheart!
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Mike Enslin
We're here to do a job, and we don't rattle.
[speaking into recorder]
Mike Enslin
"The décor is in tatters, and the staff is surly, but on the Shiver Scale, I award the Dolphin ten skulls."
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Mike Enslin
We don't rattle, do we?
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Mike Enslin
I've lived the life of a selfish man. But I don't have to die that way. If I'm going down, I'm taking you with me. This may not all be real, and I may not even be real, but this fire, that's gotta be real
[lights Malatov cocktail and throws against wall]
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Gerald Olin
Well done, Mr. Enslin. Well done.
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[repeated line in flashbacks]
Mike Enslin
I'm going out to buy some cigarettes.
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Katie
[while room burns]
Daddy... Everyone dies.
Mike Enslin
[Starts laughing hysterically]
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Mike Enslin
I'm trying to accurately describe Orpheus on the Orpheum Circuit. Bathed in tango light, the kind of light that makes the dead get out of their graves and tango. Now, this is level nine, the deepest level of hell, furthest removed from all light and warmth. This is six. It's goddamn five. I think I see the pattern.
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[first lines]
Mike Enslin
Hi. Mike Enslin. Checking in.
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Mike Enslin
I'm afraid I can't express myself in this climate.
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