Movie Reviews

1408 (2007)

Genres: Horror | Thriller

Actors: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Chris Carey, Len Cariou, Peter Conboy, Walter Lewis, Noah Lee Margetts, Thomas A. McMahon, Tyler Nilson, Ike Ononye, Andrew Lee Potts, Drew Powell, Jasmine Jessica Anthony, Jessica Cail

Directors: Mikael Håfström

Country: USA

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1408 is a 2007 psychological-based horror movie based on the Stephen King short story of the same name directed by Swedish film director Mikael Håfström.

1408 provides the basis for one of the decade’s most haunting motion picture ghost stories. A good old-fashioned scarefest, 1408 is a welcome and refreshing change of pace from the flurry of gore-splattered ‘horror’ films where blood and guts replace story development that have become the genre’s norm.

Mike Enslin is a paranormal investigative author of several books, in which he searches for haunted houses / hotels but is yet to find one that is truly haunted. He travels the world to visit every supposedly haunted location he can.

Everything changes when he receives a mysterious post card that tells him to visit room 1408 in a New York hotel, The Dolphin. Enslin has not been to New York in a long time because his ex-wife lives there and it brings back memories of their little daughter, Katie, who died as a young child. Thoughts of not doing enough to prevent her death have followed him ever since. Upon calling the hotel to book room 1408, he is met with severe opposition by hotel staff to rent the room due to its long history of deaths over the years. He finds a law that states that an unoccupied hotel room must be rented at its request and uses it to his advantage. Last minute objections come in the form of the hotel manager, Gerald Olin, who tries to bribe Enslin not to stay in the room with expensive wine and a folder containing records of all of the deaths in 1408. Enslin will hear nothing of the sort and stays in the room anyway. Once he enters the room, his life changes forever.