The name of this board refers to the film 'Room 1408,' Staring John Cussack. A hotel room no one gets out of alive or sane. I thought it appropriate for my Rowdy room creation.
A few references to the no13 in the film.
Grm
Several places in the movie have allusions to the supposedly superstitious number 13.
The most common reference is the room number itself, 1408 (1+4+0+8=13) as well as the fact that the room is on the 14th floor. In most hotels, the 14th floor is really just the 13th floor renumbered. However, other numbers allude to 13. According to hotel manager Gerald Olin, the Dolphin opened in October 1912 (1+9+1+2=13).At one scene, the temperature shows 45-40 (4+5+4+0=13) On the inside of the lock of the hallway door to 1408, the number 6214 can be seen (6+2+1+4=13). When Mike first opens the Bible, he turns to 2 Samuel chapter 11 (2+11=13).
When Mike is trying to get his wife Lily to send police, he gives the address as 2254 Lexington (2+2+5+4=13). At the end of the film, the voice from the telephone says "we are 5...we are 8" (5+8=13). Olin makes mention of 56 deaths in room 1408. If Enslin and his wife had perished in the room, there would have been a total of 58 deaths (see above). Even something as innocent as
Mike asking the "engineer" to just walk in the room "6 or 7 feet" (6+7=13). The only time that the actual number 13 appears is when Olin is taking Enslin to room 1408 and he says that "The owners don't think that 1408 is evil, they just pretend that it doesn't exist like the 13th floor.", and when Mike first gets the postcard telling him not to go to the room, he writes down that the numbers 1408 equal 13. At the book signing, the tallest stack of books totaled 13.
Towards the end of the film (end of chap 17), the clock in the room is on 3:38, changes to 3:37 but only for a split second, then changes to 3:36 and continues to run normally (3+3+7=13). Mike Enslin has a Chicago White Sox hat. The team officially adopted the "White Sox" name in 1903 (1+9+0+3=13). We know Mike's full known name to be Michael Enslin (13 letters). The song that kept playing on the radio, "We've Only Just Begun", was sung by The Carpenters (there are 13 letters in The Carpenters). There even appear to be references outside of the fourth wall: The film is rated PG-13. The film release date was June, 2007 (or 6/07: 6+0+7=13). And finally, the runtime of the movie is 94min (9+4=13).