Want to stay in 1408?

Rating: 9/10 (28 June 2008)

Usually horror movies depend mostly on haunting music ,cheap tricks, horrific makeup faces and horror striking voices. This movie stands out from that category and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
1408 is a room in a high-posh hotel which was supposed to be haunted. And a para-normal investigator enters it. Rest is the story. The screenplay is good. For e.g. that long dreamy sequence. Cusack's acting is very natural.
The thing I liked was the determination of John Cusack's character to find out the truth and even in deceiving times his strong sense of mind to record the happenings as he goes on to analyze it. It is a very tough mind that can still be able to analyze even in an extremely hallucinated situation. He never gives up which matches the words his dad would say " I used to be... You will be..".
If you watch this movie expecting blood curling ghost images with horrific noises or scarring things with long finger nails eating human flesh or blood etc.. then you will be disappointed. Instead it can be matched with a psychological thriller. Then you will certainly enjoy the moment.