Modern day haunted hotel story

Rating: 8/10 (14 January 2009)

Despite being a big Stephen King fan I've yet to read the short story of this movie so I can't make any comparisons between the film and the story. Judging the movie on its own, it works brilliantly though it did take a while for the idea of John Cusack playing the character to wash over me during the first half an hour. However, he does later fit into the role naturally and makes a film which centres around one person in particular really interesting. A lot of the special effects were great and the 'window' scene was particularly well carried out.
The only major problem I had with the film was the end of the director's cut, to me it didn't make much sense. Having seen the altered cinema release version, I prefer the cinema ending a lot more and feel it makes a lot more sense to the movie.
Plot - 8 / Acting - 8 / Cinematography - 9 / Music - 6