Written By- Max Greenberg, Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
Starring- John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack
Critics Review- "Based on a Stephen King story, 1408 takes the simplest plot and turns into a enjoyable surreal, unnerving creepfest."- Steve Murray "Atlanta Journal-Constitution"
Rating on Rotten Tomatoes- 78%
Out of a Possible of 5 stars- 3 1/2
My Review-
I have watched a few Stephen King adaptations on screen, whether it was a movie or a made for TV movie, and this is my favorite one next to Misery. This was recommend to me by a friend, and I also have always wanted to watch but never got the chance to do so until now. The movie is about how a writer of the most haunted places is always skeptical about these types of things, but that all changes once he spends an hour in that room. For the first half of the movie it was kind of boring, until he got to the Hotel where the majority of the movie would take place and enter Samuel L. Jackson. Now if he were to warn me about something I would listen to him but the movie would have been over about almost 30 mins and that would not be good. The best parts of the movie naturally was when he was in the room which actually creeped me out and some points in the movie, this was natural horror movie; no blood or cuts, murder, people saying we need to split up just a good ol' fashion horror movie that also seemed to cause claustrophobia since it was in one place for the almost entirety of the movie, there were some scenes that were in the preview that i had hoped would be in the movie, but sadly they were not. However it was still a good movie that for the first time in a long time had me actually go "oh shit" at moments in the movie, I do not think anyone else could have done a better job then Cusack, and even though Samuel L. Jackson had a small part he was still one of the best things in the movie, aside from the ending, which made you question "what the hell just happened?"
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