1408

This is a review from Peggy K.
Forced into the cineplex due to the fact that she is a mother, Peggy stumbled upon 1408...

I was looking for a movie to see in the same theater complex while my daughter and her friend saw Transformers. I had not even heard of or seen a preview for 1408, but I certainly was not going to see the big robot movie. The short review in the newspaper said it's from a short story by Stephen King and gave it a good grade.

This is a scary movie! John Cusack plays a writer who writes, tongue in cheek, about "haunted" hotels, though he himself is not a believer in ghosts or hauntings. Samuel L. Jackson is the manager of the Dolphin Hotel in NYC, where room 1408 is (in his words) "a f _ _ _ ing evil room", as he tries to dissuade Cusack from spending the night. Of course he stays anyway, and commences to be bombarded by ghosts of guests past, his inner demons, his own family tragedies, and all sorts of scary goings-on. There is even the "climb out the window on the 14th floor and try to make it over the ledge to the next room" scene. It works yet again.

Okay, some of it is over the top; I think The Shining had the right mix of supernatural/psychological scariness. With the special effects capabilities now, they seem to want to throw everything they can into a film.

A good Stephen King flick - I was pleasantly frightened!

Peggy K.