Olin knows the room really is haunted. The power of the room doesn't seem to go into te hallway, and Olin admits he goes into 1408 once a month for 10 minutes. If he was really worried about Mike not making it through the night, why not either go himself or have someone check on Mike every hour? That way if the room is trying to kill him, he could possibly rescue him.
shareExactly, security cameras in there would be good too.
shareI think that a room which makes the devil look like a good guy wouldn't have problems to fake the pictures transmitted by the camera, or simply break it.
This assuming that the guy who installed the camera managed to do it without being killed.
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shareIt was out of his hands once he entered the room.
shareYou'd think, but he did warn him he was on his own. Tried to buy him off too. But at one point he did check on him, from the mini fridge! HA!
shareOlin said the elevator is as close as he gets to 1408. And if Mike were in trouble someone would have to go inside the room to save him, which is too risky.
shareI was just wondering about this as well. I can understand Olin not wanting to go near the room physically, but why not place a phone call to ask if everything's ok?
Which reminds me, I don't recall Mike at least trying to call the front desk or Olin for help, or, as he got more desperate, 911. I realize, it's just a movie, but you'd think the character would go through those steps first before climbing out the window!
Did everyone in this thread miss everything in the room being controlled by the evil entity/ghost/whatever? Did none of you see all the twisted shit the room was able to do? Once he was in the room Mike wasn't getting out by calling the front desk. Come on y'all.
shareLike I said, I realize it's just a movie and in this story, the room wouldn't have allowed certain things to happen, but that's different from not even showing an attempt to use the phone to check on Mike or to call for help.
shareRecall, the Room actually let him leave the room after the repair person helps him out (just for a few seconds). In effect, taking a chance that he'd leave for real...of course, by that time, and given his nature, he does not.
shareI don't think the repairman was real.
shareWell... This is just a speculation. Nothing in the movie hints us at him not being real. I don't see why he wouldn't be. It serves right the element of "last chance to escape the devil and miss it".
That being said, you might as well be right. It's left to our interpretations.
Interesting. I tend to think the repairman was real, and he blew his last chance to get out (easily), maybe just so he could keep recalling he had a chance. However, I do concede that the repairman could have been in his head/not real.
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