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SYNOPSIS
The only demons in room 1408 are those within you.
Renowned horror novelist Mike Enslin (Cusack) only believes what he can see with his own two eyes. After a string of bestsellers discrediting paranormal events in the most infamous haunted houses and graveyards around the world, he scoffs at the concept of an afterlife.
Enslin’s phantom-free run of long and lonely nights is about to change forever when he checks into suite 1408 of the notorious Dolphin Hotel for his latest project, "Ten Nights in Haunted Hotel Rooms."
Defying the warnings of the hotel manager (Jackson), the author is the first person in years to stay in the reputedly haunted room. Another bestseller may be imminent, but like all Stephen King heroes, Enslin must go from skeptic to true believer - and ultimately survive the night.
Overall 1408 is just a light turndown in the Stephen King film scheme, but don't worry: it *will* disturb!
Staci Layne Wilson
Horror.com
Stephen King can be counted on to put the fun back into a ghost story. He did it with The Shining, and again in 1408, a short story that is the basis for this suspenseful chiller about a writer's hallucinogenic night in a haunted room.
Bill White
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Definitely one of the best King adaptations in years ... and I've seen 'em all.
Scott Weinberg
Cinematical
One of the best horror movies I have seen in a few years
Willie Waffle
WaffleMovies.com
Virtually a one-man show by Cusack, and he's up to the task.
Scott Von Doviak
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
1408 offers proof that you really can make a creepy and effective, PG-13-rated horror movie.
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Never has a King size bed had such an air of imminent menace.
Joshua Tyler
CinemaBlend.com
1408 amounts to little more than a radical shock-therapy session for a man still finding his way after the loss of his daughter. Best to leave him alone with his issues.
Scott Tobias
Onion AV Club
Not only is the trailer for 1408 oodles more terrifying than the movie itself; worse, for the most part, this pop-horror trifle adapted from a Stephen King short story grows into a formulaic bore.
John Thomason
Orlando Weekly
A retro joy, a Halloween Haunted House of a movie that delivers the sort of pleasurable shivers and jolts that today's exercises in torture porn don't even attempt.
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion
No matter how entertaining the gorefests of folks like Eli Roth are, there will always be an entertainment value in films that are more into spooking people than making them sick.
Todd Gilchrist
IGN Movies
Finds some ingenious methods of visualizing the story's literary whim-whams. Before it finally succumbs to CGI bloat in the last act, it offers up one of the creepiest hours in recent memory.
Andrew Wright
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
1408 ranks as the summer's smartest, spookiest surprise.
Kevin Williamson
Jam! Movies
The dread is palpable in this chilling suspense thriller about a hotel room that more than lives up to its evil reputation.
Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Daily News
Don't expect lots of guts and gore, but there's tension aplenty, lots of shocks, and several false ends to the torment, which make it seem even more intense.
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide
1408 isn't great cinema, but does an adequate job in spite of its flaws.
Pete Vonder Haar
Film Threat
It pins you into a claustrophobic chamber of terror for a surprisingly stomach-turning thrill ride.
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star
Evokes the author's good points as well as his bad, but like its fast-talking hero, it was in trouble the minute the door closed behind it.
Rob Vaux
Flipside Movie Emporium
Blair Witch in a hotel room, and way scarier than a bundle of sticks and a pile of rocks. It makes The Shining look like a cheap motel.
Fred Topel
Can Magazine
Director Mikael Hafstrom creates effective atmospherics, and for a good long while 1408 manages to avoid the crutch of F/X.
Gary Thompson
Philadelphia Daily News
An intellectual, character-driven horror film, one that gets under your skin not through your stomach, but through your nightmares.
Brian Tallerico
UnderGround Online
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.
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
The horror wouldn't work without Cusack, who makes what could have been a rote acting exercise - Be tough! Now angry! Now defensively funny! - a cathartic ritual instead.
Robert Wilonsky
Village Voice
In this mix of recycled scares and half-hearted twists, the only real fright is the sight of an interesting actor wasting his talents in yet another mediocre movie.
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
Swedish director Mikael Hafsrom, who scored with Evil in 2003 and fizzled badly with Derailed two years later, seems to have regained his footing.
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
Listen up, all you Hostels, Saws and other purveyors of bloody terror. Lay down your whips, chain saws and paring knives to watch a truly scary movie.
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
1408 is not quite interesting enough to linger long in the mind, but it has enough jack-in-the-box chills to mollify those who feel it's been all downhill since The Uninvited.
Jan Stuart
Newsday
If I ever check into a hotel room and the clock radio is playing the Carpenters, I'm going to freak out.
Kyle Smith
New York Post
Even as haunted hotel King movies go, 1408 is certainly no Shining. Not even the TV-movie version.
Rob Salem
Toronto Star
There's ghoulish fun and Hichcockian suspense until the film hits a narrative wall around the 60-minute mark.
Lisa Rose
Newark Star-Ledger
This isn’t a horror movie about... screams and yells, it’s more like chills and little moments of revelation.
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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