One of the greatest horror films I've seen in a long time...actually scary for once.

Rating: 10/10 (23 June 2007)

I see horror movies on TV, I see them in theaters or on DVD and they're usually okay, but not scary...maybe a creepy moment or two. But "1408" actually freaked the crap out of me. Really, it could have been scarier but this one actually got me tense and at the edge of my seat with my heart racing. So that surprised me. Good for them. I think the moment that just got me the most was when he was looking out the window and he saw someone that looked like him and did everything he did, and the guy with the hammer comes behind him and is swinging it at him. The entire theater was screaming as if someone had brought a gun in there and shot somebody. It was intense and really got me. I think that if he was in the hotel and he was just locked in, that would've been pretty boring. What really grabs you is that he's locked in and there is no possible way out. Everything changes, it's like he's not even in a real world anymore. For example: Him screaming and no noise was made, him on the side of the building trying to crawl to a new window and all the windows were gone, the "ways out" just didn't work anymore. Stuff like that. Also it grabs you with the whole thing "is it real? Is this real? Is he imagining it?". The ending kinda confused me though...maybe that was the point.
I recommend this to any horror fan.
My Score: 8/10