1408

Pros: Cusack and Jackson's performances.  Excellent, Gripping Story.
Cons: Slow pacing at beginning.

Stephen King never ceases to amaze me with the stuff he can come up with.  The way that King manages to layer his books with different levels of terror while toying with his readers shows a degree of sophistication often absent within the thriller ...

Pros: great directing, scary without being gory, excellent acting by Cusack and Jackson
Cons: lots of plot holes

If you like classic horror, then the underrated 1408 probably will appeal to you. With the bevy of splatterhouse films lately, it has been uncommon to see a scary film that scares you without resorting to cheap gore. Mike Enslin (John Cusack) is ...

Pros: Good idea for a story
Cons: The trailer gave way too much away

Warning: This review does contain some spoilers, but it’s nothing you couldn’t already see in the movie’s trailer. I used to be a Stephen King fan until I read too many of his books. What clinched it for me was the Dark Tower series and ...

Pros: Really great scares, Okay premise
Cons: The scary scenes don't stay with you and haunt you when the movie's over

I love getting scared, I like that feeling. When a film can frighten me the way 1408 had done so successfully, it instantly becomes a favorite of mine. The Story Mike Enslin is an author. His specialty is writing of his ...

Pros: Excellent acting, and cinematography.
Cons: Probably too disturbing for younger audiences.

1408 (2007) beings with Mike Enslin (John Cusack) driving in the rain looking for a haunted hotel room to include in his upcoming book. Mike is a writer in search of his next haunted story he can demystify the myth. One morning while going ...

Pros: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson.
Cons: Maudlin flashbacks.

Director Mikael Hafstrom faced a considerable challenge in making the movie 1408, which for the most part takes place in one room, even more so than Stephen King did in writing the short story on which the movie is based. While writers are often exhorted ...

Pros: Completely enveloping; very atmospheric. Hair-risingly riveting and stellarly acted!
Cons: The ghosts looked too projectorized and hard-edged--something more classical would've been more terrifying.

BackgroundThis is the kind of horror movie that even my wife was able to sit through, and even get into. Being a rather easily-frightened person, she would normally not even consider viewing a film of this genre. However, she and ...

Pros: Tense, startling, disturbing with flashes of humor
Cons: Horror, like Humor, is very subjective... not everyone has the same buttons

I just Love what he's done with the wallpaper! Mike Enslin is a writer who is currently making a living by writing about America's most haunted places; graveyards, lighthouses, and now...hotels. A die-hard skeptic who has lost all faith while ...

Pros: Good creep-out factor, Cusack has skills, cinematography
Cons: Slightly predictable in some respects

It seems like once in a blue moon, I decide to let myself see a scary movie.  Normally, I don't do well with scary movies.  I've pretty much mastered my fear of the dark, but I still have those moments where I threaten violence upon nonexistent ...

Pros: Cast, pacing
Cons: Not much else

The idea of John Cusack doing a horror movie, sounded like a great idea. I like the idea that a guy who began his start as one of the least well known members of the 1980's Brat Pack, as the guy who made the cinematic commitment-phobe, as the guy who ...

Pros: the first 45 minutes is intriging...
Cons: ...then it completely turns into the worst film ever

I haven'reviewed a movie in ages on this website, as I have been too busy to do so with school and work to review every movie I see, as I have been seeing lots as of late. I didn’t even review Beowulf, even though I was one of the first to see it ...

Pros: A very impressive horror movie, with excellent writing, acting and special effects.
Cons: Be prepared to sleep with the lights on.

If the Bates Motel seems too declasse for you, consider the Hotel Dolphin on fashionable Lexington Avenue. That's where the action in this very effective horror movie occurs. Mike Enslin (John Cusack) is a writer who specializes in debunking stories ...

Pros: Very suspenseful; when you think you have the whole thing figured out, it turns
Cons: I really can’t think of any

Being a big Stephen King fan, I was anxiously awaiting 1408’s release. I held off reading the story because I wanted to be surprised by the movie. I am happy to report that 1408 lived up to my high expectations. Mike Enslin (John Cusack) is an author ...

Pros: Special effects, Cusack's performance, and the suspense.
Cons: Loose plot.

Well, there hasn't been an grade-A film adaption of a Stephen King story since 1999's "The Green Mile". But "1408" has ended that 8-year gap of crummy adaptions. The story is about horror novelist Mike Enslin(John Cusack) who has never experienced any ...

Pros: keeps you on the edge on your seat.
Cons: bad language,

1408 was originally a Stephen King novel made into a movie. It was released in June of 2007. Rated PG 13 for thematic material, including disturbing sequences of violence and terror. The images and language are also a little much for young ears. The ...