1408 is a good thriller

Rating: 5/10 (30 October 2010)

Although I expected more of a supernatural movie, I found it more to be one man's journey through an alcohol fuelled delusion. John Cusack was great in basically a one man show. I didn't find it all that frightening. Maybe a little creepy at times, there were some good visuals that were a little unsettling, but overall it didn't give me that psychological chill that other movies have. I think maybe a different director other than Mikael Håfström may have created a different and more macabre take on the story. I honestly think this movie had a lot of potential to scare. However I didn't feel that this movie pulled it off. In a movie of this nature I want to feel a little psychological terror, or confusion in myself, not just in watching the main character fall to pieces. "Show me the bone chilling terror, and the rivers of blood....it's just a room" I couldn't have put it any better. In saying that...it was an enjoyable movie to watch, if you don't expect too much from it.