1408 starring John Cussack and Samuel L. Jackson follows horrible scenes when an author checks in a room in an hotel and debunks claims that the room is haunted.
1408 is another Stephen King adaptation where the main protagonist is a writer. It is also a fine psychological horror movie and welcome change of pace from the ultra violent, gore polluted, torture porn flicks currently infecting cinema.
The movie attempts a false ending that doesn't quite work; the picture feels prolonged, dragged out, and its ennui lessens the impact of some of its more terrifying fillips.
Another actor may have made 1408 seem as thin and fake as an episode of Tales from the Crypt, but Cusack lends it that badly needed extra milligram of conviction.
San Francisco Chronicle
June 22, 2007
1408 is one of the good Stephen King adaptations, one that maintains its author's sly sense of humor and satiric view of human nature.
The success of 1408 rests squarely on [John Cusack's] Hawaiian shirt-clad shoulders, and he pulls it off. The role, that is. The tacky shirt stays on pretty well the whole time.
