Real fear comes from deep despair-1room 408

I have always thought that a good horror film is not a simple bleeding scene, a few twisted faces, a fragmented corpse, a simple blue and cool tone, mysterious music and strange legends.

I remember watching Zhenzi when I was a child, and I was scared to sleep all night by the twisted and ferocious facial expression of one of the deceased. Just close your eyes, all is that face.

I watched more horror movies and summarized some doorways. If it is a Japanese horror film, the rhythm must be slow and depressing, the color must be blue and cold, the characters must be weird, and the dead have no face and are not scary. If it is an American horror film, there will inevitably be sticky blood, broken limbs and distorted human bodies. On the contrary, Korean horror films and Thai horror films are more intriguing. They always want to tell you something in the story. They always design some delicate plots, not as straightforward and bloody as Japanese ghost films and American ghost films.

But what I want to talk about today is a classic American horror movie-1room 408. 1408 room does not follow the usual bloody routine of American horror movies, but rarely uses blood. The whole movie has a tight rhythm, which leads people to despair step by step. From the bottom of my heart, people feel deeply bound and unable to escape. No matter how hard you struggle, you can't escape from this desperate and suffocating room.

The hero of the story, Mike Ainslin, is a horror novel writer, not a bestseller. For the new book, he decided to spend one night in the famous haunted house in Dolphin Hotel 1408, looking for creative inspiration.

Although Mike is the author of horror novels, he is a firm materialist. He doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, and firmly believes that all anomalies in the world can be explained by common sense.

So Mike insisted on staying in room 1408 despite the hotel manager's dissuasion.

Mike pushed open the door, and everything in the room seemed normal, such as sofa, writing desk, antique wardrobe … just like all the hotel rooms where Mike stayed. "That's it? Are you kidding? This is just an ordinary room. " Mike said.

Just as Mike was standing at the window looking around, the alarm clock suddenly rang and there were two more chocolates on the bed. The toilet paper that Mike pulled in the bathroom folded into a triangle again. Mike still uses common sense to infer, but someone has quickly sorted it out.

But all this is like an alarm clock ringing, "everything is just the beginning", and the room begins to become abnormal. The alarm clock began to count down for an hour, and everything began to get weird. First, the room equipment failed, and then the alarm clock was still counting down after the power was cut off. Mike began to feel scared and tried to escape from the room. However, the door of the room could not be opened at all; The man in the opposite building is Mike himself; Climbing out of the window, there are bare walls on both sides ...

In room 1408, the voice of Mike's dead little daughter Katie suddenly sounded. In Mike's memory, everything was not good and he was awakened again. Mike's beloved little daughter died of illness. Mike had a quarrel with his father and wife, and even fled new york. In this room, everything happens again.

All the paintings in the room are alive. A seascape of seawater poured out, and Mike was submerged by the turbulent current.

When Mike woke up again, Mike had returned to Los Angeles. It turned out that Mike was taken to the hospital after surfing and drowning. No one can prove what happened in room 1408, or even that he left Los Angeles. Everything is back to the starting point. What happened in room 1408 was just like what Mike said: it was just a terrible dream.

Mike's life is back on track. Because of the injury, his wife returned to Mike, and his father forgave Mike. Mike even wrote a book about what happened in room 1408. Everything is wonderful.

However, this is a dream, a dream of Mike, just like the intermission. Mike found that he was still trapped in room 1408. It turns out that everything is true.

When Katie said she wanted to be with her parents, she died in Mike's arms again. Mike once again experienced the death of his beloved daughter in his arms.

Just then, the one-hour countdown ended. Mike thought it was all over, and he could finally leave this damn room. Unexpectedly, an hour later, the new countdown began.

The room gives Mike two choices: one is to repeat the experience of this hour; One is to choose to hang yourself.

Mike decided to burn down the room.

In fact, each of us has such a room in our hearts, and everything we don't want to remember is locked in this room. Fortunately, we don't often recall.

"Because I know ghosts, ghosts, these things don't exist. Even if they really exist, there is no god to protect us, right? "