1408

Pros: Excellent effects. Great acting and supporting cast. Perfect pacing and entertaining throughout.
Cons: Rather weak ending. A few frights feel a bit cheap. A little padding near end.

One thing I am loving about the 'States is the special midnight screenings of new movies. Sure, these sessions tend to draw out a rather.... colourful crowd, especially here in Las Vegas, but the chance to beat the crowds on opening-day proper is a ...

Pros: Cusack and a great setup.
Cons: some drag in final act of film.

For writer Mike Enslin (John Cusack), ghosts and the supernatural are simply myths people use to bolster the local economy with tourism dollars. Mike has made a career of evaluating and debunking so called haunted inns, hotels, graveyards, and ...

Pros: Great writing, direction, acting and special effects
Cons: None

Few "ghost" stories shown on the big screen scare me. But "1408" is not your average ghost story. Based on what is called a "terrifying short story" by Stephen King (which I haven't read), this is one adaptation to the big screen that remains ...

Pros: Lots of good scares, good performance from Cusack, and it has a brain
Cons: Not enough of Sam!

As I am writing this review I’ve just returned from seeing 1408 and I’m house sitting for some friends. It’s just me and Murphy (their dog) in this quiet house. After seeing 1408 I have to admit I am a little spooked at the moment. That alone ...

Pros: Some.
Cons: Too much.

Think of a horror-thriller in 2007. Images of severed limbs, mutilated cuticles, screaming women, castrated manly men, butchers' knives, barbed wires, blood everywhere, intestines everywhere, open-mouthed decapitated heads, and (insert random metallic ...

Pros: First 30 minutes or so.
Cons: The remainder of the movie. Drags and loses momentum.

My goodness it's almost 12 hours since I saw 1408 and it's almost been erased from my memory. I just wish it would be forgotten period!!!! I think this has been the summer or year of very great movie trailer making and deceiving marketing that you go ...

Pros: Action in the first 15 minutes. Good acting, excellent special effects, realistic blood. Surprise ending.
Cons: The first hotel makes you wonder if this movie will be any good.

John Cusack plays Mike Eslin, a semi-known "ghost-hunter" and writer of haunted locations across the country. His daughter's recent death still weighing heavy on his mind, and an unresolved marriage compel him to view supernatural events with cynicism ...

Pros: cool premise, great performances, some real potential
Cons: familiar elements cloak its theme, making it appear like a series of special effects

I began my initial review of this film with the following: "There was a moment, early on, when I thought this film would add up to something. Somewhere in 'sound and fury' I realized that moment had passed. Whether you call it a horror film or ...

Pros: Plot, Acting, Special Effects
Cons: None.

Introduction Horror movies, we've all seen them. They range from the strange and obsurd to the hack and slash throw back of the 1970's and 1980's. This is one reviewer who is resistent to attending a horror movie but when I found myself out on ...

Pros: Cusak, Jackson, great effects and imagery
Cons: Not enough Sam Jackson, an ending that should have been a bit more climactic

2007's psycho-thriller, "1408" takes us on a journey into the abyss of an imagination that just happens to belong to Stephen King. What do you get when you cross a 'mind trip' film like Jacob's Ladder with a film where the central character learns ...

Pros: You want fear - you got it!!!!
Cons: Slow starting- could have had a better ending.

Mike Enslin is an author who writes on the paranormal and the occult. He has been in search of ghosts for a few years and has to turn up anything. When he receives a postcard advising him not to stay in room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel in New York he ...

Pros: some effective moments
Cons: a lot of dross, a disappointment for fans of the story

Stephen King's short story "1408" was a rare treat - a genuinely chilling, uncanny piece from someone whose talent at writing such things has been steadily on the wane for years. When I found out they were turning the story into a movie, my first thought ...

Pros: Decent acting, good story line, moderately creepy.
Cons: Drags at times, slight overuse of special effects

I like ghost stories, or should I say I like movies involving ghost stories. I loved ghost stories as a kid, especially those alleged to be true. As an adult I find most written ghost stories are repetitive or at least remind me of things I’ve ...

Pros: good story line, haunting, and super natural but not believable
Cons: poor all around, don't even know how to explain it

1408 is based on a short story but the horror novelist Stephen King. Mike Enslin, played by John Cusack, a paranormal, ghost, haunted places writer, is searching for a new adventure. He doesn't believe in what he researches, which is probably why ...

Pros: Terrifying, great acting, great imagination and special effects
Cons: Some parts a little cheesy, not sure about ending

I just want to start by saying that I haven’t seen a movie so creepy in a very long time. I’ve read review after review of 1408 by Epinionators as well as by critics, but I still wasn’t prepared for what I saw. Despite some cheesy ...