One brilliant mind-game!

Rating: 9/10 (10 July 2007)

Forget about "The Hills Have Eyes", "Hostel", "Saw III" and other new generation horror movies that presume on nothing but gore,blood and guts. "1408" is one magnificent adventure to the deepest and darkest corners of the human mind.This is definitely one of the best Stephen King's adaptations.You may like it, even if you are NOT a real horror movie fan...
The story is about the writer of cheap books Mike Inslin.After losing his daughter, he leaves his wife and travels across America writing about haunted places.He is a man with nothing to lose...but his sanity.The main problem is that he don't believe in the paranormal and that's about to change.One ordinary day he receives a postcard, that tells him not to go to New Yorks hotel "Dolphin" and rent room number 1408.He thinks that this will be the perfect ending of his new cynical book but he finds himself in the middle of pure and terrifying Evil.
Truly outstanding performance by John Cusack.Don't expect to get an explanation of how room 1408 turned into this evil...machine.The story is not taken to an end but that's the charm of it.The end of the movie is typical for a Stephen Kings book and it still creeps me out.
This movie is strongly recommended for imaginative people.If you are that kind of person then that's your kind of entertainment!