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* [[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, too--at the point in the film where this happens, {{spoiler|enough running time has elapsed that you might actually believe the movie was coming to an end.}}

** {{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.}}

** {{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.

* [[Balcony Escape]]: Mike tries, and fails as the other windows all disappear from the wall.

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* [[Hollywood Atheist]]: Enslin, though he was an atheist ''before'' his daughter passed away.

* [[If Ghosts Then Jesus]]: Mike doesn't believe in the supernatural, claiming even it was real, there isn't a God to protect them from it.

* [[If Jesus Then Aliens]]: This comes back to bite him ''hard''.

* [[If Jesus, Then Aliens]]: This comes back to bite him ''hard''.

* [[I Never Said It Was Poison]]: When Enslin calls to reserve a night in 1408, he is told it is unavailable. He then points out that he didn't specify the night he wanted to stay.

* [[Inn Security]]: "Even if you check out, you can never leave..."

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* [[Schmuck Bait]]: The postcard Enslin receives, warning him "Don't go in 1408!"

* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: In the book, Enslin becomes totally paranoid after his experience. {{spoiler|He cannot sleep in strange places, he can't answer the phone, he can't allow any light from the sunrise or sunset into his room (as it reminds him of the horrible colors in the room), and he is an all-around broken individual.}}

* [[Shout Out]]:

* [[Shout-Out]]:

** To the fridge scene from [[Ghostbusters]].

** There's a small blink-and-you-miss-it ([[Easter Egg|Seriously, the pause button will be required]]) reference to the original short story. When Enslin is walking down the hall to the room for the first time, he is shuffling through his notes. On one page is a line from the original short story from when Enslin first begins to feel the affects from the room.