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It reminds us what it's like to be scared in a theater rather than overwhelmed by buckets of blood and gore.
The movie attempts a false ending that doesn't quite work; the picture feels prolonged, dragged out, and its ennui lessens the impact of some of its more terrifying fillips.
A faithful and creepy adaptation of [King's] 2002 short story.
Even as haunted hotel King movies go, 1408 is certainly no Shining. Not even the TV-movie version.
1408 is one of the good Stephen King adaptations, one that maintains its author's sly sense of humor and satiric view of human nature.
An entertainingly hairy paranormal affair based on a King short story, 1408 sets up its star -- and its audience -- for a blood-curdling, bone-chilling night of horror.
Another actor may have made 1408 seem as thin and fake as an episode of Tales from the Crypt, but Cusack lends it that badly needed extra milligram of conviction.
1408 is another Stephen King adaptation where the main protagonist is a writer. It is also a fine psychological horror movie and welcome change of pace from the ultra violent, gore polluted, torture porn flicks currently infecting cinema.
A good, old-fashioned horror flick, one that relies on supernatural chills, psychological twists and top-shelf special effects -- as opposed to the recent trend toward ball gags, bound wrists and bad lighting.
Cusack's gritty, near over-the-top performance goes a long way, as does the subtle slow burn from director Mikael Håfström, but Samuel L. Jackson needed to be nudged awake as the hotel manager.
Hotel room horror is more mental than physical.
Forcing the audience to experience his terror with an almost first-hand immediacy, Cusack runs the emotional gamut ...
Una buena idea y unos 20 minutos iniciales inquietantes y sugestivos se descarrilan rápidamente hacia la parafernalia y el exceso visual. Nada convence, excepto el esfuerzo de John Cusack por convencernos de que se lo ha tomado en serio.
From the start, it builds to a point of unbearable tension and then rewards us with a payoff that is cleverly executed and genuinely terrifying.
Cusack always manages to underscore panic with irony.
I'm very hard to please when it comes to the horror genre, but pleased I am with 1408, a dread concoction from Stephen King, sharply committed to film by a clever screenplay, solid direction and terrific performances.
Haunted houses aside, never were buildings such immense sources of creepiness and fright before 9/11.
There's a single-disc version, as well as a 2-Disc Collector's Edition which is, of course, the one to get.
John Cusack checks into an 'evil f***ing room' in 1408 (Two-Disc Collector's Edition), the 75th Stephen King movie to be made thus far. . .
The legitimately creepy exposition turns into relentlessly typical "haunted house" boilerplate.
For all of 1408's shortcomings, all that's really needed to lift it a level is some decent scares, but one or two spooky moments just isn't enough.
Though not especially original, this is frightening and disturbing film and the effects take a while to wear off.
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