1408 PG-13

The only demons in room 1408 are those within you.
1408
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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 2, 2007
  • Originally Released: 2007
  • Label: Weinstein

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User Ratings: 745,358
Rating: 3/5 -- Cusack always manages to underscore panic with irony. Full Review
Sydney Morning Herald
Feb 1, 2008
Cusack, who is in almost every scene, is astutely cast: his sardonic persona gradually disintegrates as the room plays its malevolent tricks on him. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Aug 31, 2007
Rating: 3/4 -- An excursion through the psychological intrigue of the human mind that is precise, tense, atmospheric and performed with great dramatic intensity. Full Review
Cinemaphile.org
Jan 27, 2016
[I]t's a deft Stephen King freak-out....What happens to Cusack is a roller coaster of a head trip... -- Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly
Jun 22, 2007
Rating: 3.5/5 -- A nifty, shifty and refreshingly gore-free horror film... Full Review
Herald Sun (Australia)
Apr 17, 2019
Rating: 4/5 -- Unpretentious and effective. Full Review
Guardian
Aug 31, 2007
3 stars out of 5 -- A terrific performance from John Cusack as a cynic on a paranormal mission nudges this towards the higher end of King adaps.
Total Film
Sep 1, 2007

Product Description:

The PG-13 rating given to 1408 belies this film's truly terrifying effects on its audience. Though it's far less gory than its peers, it has frightening moments and a creepy mood throughout. John Cusack (IDENTITY) plays Mike Enslin, a gifted writer who has turned his talents to paranormal travel books. His stays in haunted hotels never shake him, but he's intrigued by New York's Dolphin Hotel. Room 1408 has been the site of dozens of deaths, and this is a selling point for the skeptic in Mike. Despite the warnings of the hotel manager (Samuel L. Jackson, BLACK SNAKE MOAN), Mike resolves to stay in the haunted room. No one has lasted more than an hour in 1408, and Mike has his work cut out for him.

Though Cusack got his acting pedigree in comedies, he proves he's able to adeptly carry a horror film. He's in practically every frame of the film, often alone, and he's great at making the audience share in his fear. This is the second English-language film from director Mikael Hafstrom (DERAILED), and he does a good job of establishing tension. A lot of the credit is due to the film's sound crew, whose detailed work goes far in giving 1408 its unsettling feeling. Like THE SHINING, this is based on writing from horror master Stephen King, and it's a similarly creepy tale set in a hotel. But in its execution, 1408 is far more indebted to classic horror films such as the original 1963 version of THE HAUNTING.

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  • UPC: 796019805308
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