As Far as Stephen King Film Adaptations Go, This Is One of the Better Ones

Rating: 6/10 (21 November 2007)

Gerald Olin: A few years ago a young maid from El Salvador found herself locked in the bathroom. She was only there for a few moments, but when we pulled her out she was...
Mike Enslin: (sarcastically) She was dead?
Gerald Olin: No. Blind. She had taken a pair of scissors and gouged her eyes out. She was laughing hysterically.
You know as far as horror/ghost movies go, '1408' isn't half bad. In an era where all we get for horror is a bunch of blood, guts and decapitations, '1408'takes the high road and thrills us with smart psychological terrors. Although I didn't much car...(read more)e for the way it dragged towards the end, I couldn't help but appreciate the ending. The people I was with hated it, but I thought it was different. John Cusack gives the best performance of the film (obviously) and he's to no surprise excellent. Samuel L. Jackson basically has a nothing part, but I did appreciate it's different than his 'Snakes on a Plane / Pulp Fiction' screaming bad-ass role he for some reason always gets cast in. All in all, '1408' isn't perfect, but it's better than a lot of recent horror films to be released. It's more....original. Grade: B-