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* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Subverted. Not only are the vents incredibly cramped, not only does he fail to escape, but ''something chases him in the vents''...
* [[Alien Geometries]]: In the short story the door is crooked first to the left, then it's straight, then to the right, then both. Each time, it changed when he looks away. And the room itself also take on some extremely alien geometries near the end. Mike found "Moorish" the closest thing he could come up with to pinning a word to it. King's text called it "a convex, rotting cave full of swoops and mad tilts".
* [[All Just a Dream]]: {{spoiler|Subverted in the film.}} And done remarkably well,
** {{spoiler|And it gets even more meta than that. The surfboard incident at the start of the film has no other reason to be in the movie than this scene, and the well-publicized change from the [[Downer Ending]] made it seem like a particularly lazy way out. Even the restaurant scene contains a [[Shout-Out]] to the ending of the film version of ''Misery'', reinforcing this.}}
* [[Attack of the Killer Whatever]]: In this case, a hotel room.
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* [[Drop What You Are Doing]]: At the end, when {{spoiler|Enslin is listening to his notes while his wife is unpacking from a recent move. Her reaction to hearing the voice of their dead daughter on the tape is entirely understandable.}}
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|See [[Fate Worse Than Death]].}}
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending|Earn Your ]][[Bittersweet Ending]]: Boy, did Enslin earn it.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The "good" news is that there are no ghosts involved. When Enslin refers to a phantom in the room, Olin sharply rebukes him, in the charming way that only [[Samuel L. Jackson]] can. The story is also very clear on this.
{{quote|"At least [ghosts] were human once, but that thing...that ''thing''..."}}
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* [[Trash the Set]]: {{spoiler|After Mike seems to have escaped from 1408 and lived a week or so of his normal life, he goes to the post office to deliver a letter, and suddenly all the employees start destroying the place, to reveal 1408 beneath it.}}
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: In spades. {{spoiler|We never learn what the room is, who sent the postcard, or whether Enslin really escaped.}}
* [[Up to Eleven]]: Near the end of the film, you think the room has done its worst to
: {{spoiler|And then the theatrical release has his wife overhearing their daughter's voice on the tape at the end of the movie, begging to be allowed to stay with her parents, before the room reclaims her.}} Remember this was the ending the studio forced so it wouldn't be such a [[Downer Ending]].
* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]:
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