Room Of Evil

Rating: 7/10 (12 December 2013)

Effective film based on a Stephen King story that stars John Cusack as writer Mike Enslin, who specializes in researching reputedly haunted places, usually debunking them. Feeling his career is going nowhere after a disappointing book signing, he accepts a mysterious challenge to stay in room 1408 in the Dolphin hotel in New York where a series of deaths have occurred. The manager(played by Samuel L. Jackson) tries to dissuade him, but Enslin refuses, and so spends a most eventful and harrowing night in that evil room... Good acting and direction here, though story does become confusing at times, melodramatic at others. Still, features a most satisfying ending that makes up for shortcomings.