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1408

EMAILPRINTMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer

1408 reviews
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6.4 User Score:

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Based on 27 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Horror  |  Suspense/Thriller

Written by: Matt Greenberg
Scott Alexander
Larry Karaszewski
Stephen King (short story)

Directed by: Mikael Håfström

Release Date:
Theatrical: June 22, 2007
DVD: October 2, 2007

Running Time: 94 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for thematic material including disturbing sequences of violence and terror, frightening images and language

Starring John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Jasmine Jessica Anthony, and Tony Shalhoub

Renowned horror novelist Mike Enslin (Cusack) only believes what he can see with his own two eyes. After a string of bestsellers discrediting paranormal events in the most infamous haunted houses and graveyards around the world, he scoffs at the concept of an afterlife. Enslin's phantom-free run of long and lonely nights is about to change forever when he checks into suite 1408 of the notorious Dolphin Hotel for his latest project, "Ten Nights in Haunted Hotel Rooms." Defying the warnings of the hotel manager (Jackson), the author is the first person in years to stay in the reputedly haunted room. Another bestseller may be imminent, but like all Stephen King heroes, Enslin must go from skeptic to true believer - and ultimately survive the night. (MGM)

What The Critics Said

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80

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Swedish director Mikael Hafstrom creates a compelling ride of a movie. Every beat of the film is weighted with significance, and our mounting dread becomes almost intolerable.

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78

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

The movie appeals to an old-fashioned sense of horror.

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75

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

Swift, sharp adaptation of Stephen King's short story (from the "Everything's Eventual" collection).

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75

New York Post Kyle Smith

Sharp little psychological thriller.

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75

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

This is the old stuff, the good stuff, the tried-and-true stuff of shrewdly accomplished audience manipulation.

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75

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White

Cusack, who is beginning to look disturbingly like Dustin Hoffman, is not only the film's center, but its orbit as well.

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75

USA Today Scott Bowles

At his best, King's most effective creatures are not the ones behind creaking doors, but inside crooked minds.

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75

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

A deft Stephen King freak-out.

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75

ReelViews James Berardinelli

This is the most mature horror movie of the year - far more adult and sophisticated than the tedious Hostel Part II. If you like to be creeped out by movies, this is one to see. It reminds us what it's like to be scared in a theater rather than overwhelmed by buckets of blood and gore.

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75

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Heebie-jeebies are guaranteed.

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75

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

An entertainingly hairy paranormal affair.

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70

The Hollywood Reporter Stephen Farber

Even with its flaws, 1408 deserves to be appreciated by connoisseurs of acting and bravura filmmaking.

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70

Variety John Anderson

For star John Cusack, it's a perfect fit.

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70

Village Voice Robert Wilonsky

The horror wouldn't work without Cusack, who makes what could have been a rote acting exercise--Be tough! Now angry! Now defensively funny!--a cathartic ritual instead.

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70

Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

In the grand scheme of things, the Dolphin Hotel is no Overlook, but it's no cheesy slaughter motel either.

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70

The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

The movie is most effective in its early scenes of prickly menace, and while the Dolphin is no Overlook (the haunted hotel in "The Shining"), its old-world creepiness is exactly right.

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63

Premiere Glenn Kenny

While 1408 is no classic, it is refreshing to see a horror picture that just wants to do its job rather than prove to its audience how ruthlessly nihilistic it is.

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63

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

As thrillers go, 1408 leaves too much room for fun.

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63

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

For about an hour or so, 1408 has you thinking you're watching The Next Great Horror Movie: That's how good the first half of this adaptation of Stephen King's short story about a haunted hotel room is.

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63

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

Really wanting to get into our heads, 1408 tries awfully hard to play both sides of logic's boundary line -- tries and fails, and then succeeds, only to ultimately fail again. On the whole, the frights are frighteningly erratic.

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60

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

1408 isn’t great cinema, but does an adequate job in spite of its flaws.

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60

Empire Nick De Semlyen

Not up there with the best King adaptations, but a fun Gothic yarn that, like all good ghost stories, is simple and dripping with dread.

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50

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

One night in 1408 stretches out until it ends up feeling more like a routine three-day business trip. The scariest thing in it may be the way the clock radio has a way of turning itself on, loudly, of its own accord. The song is always the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun." Now THAT'S horror.

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50

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

A curse would be a great improvement on the wishy-washy wickedness of this movie.

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50

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

In the end, 1408 amounts to little more than a radical shock-therapy session for a man still finding his way after the loss of his daughter.

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50

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

It's an overblown campfire tale that doesn't know when to stop.

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50

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

Adapted from a Stephen King story, this trite but watchable chiller plays like a scaled-down version of "The Shining," with Cusack driven over the edge by hallucinations of his abusive father and dead daughter.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.4 (out of 10) based on 99 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Lamyaa A. gave it a9:
Do you know let me tell you some, this movie realy deserve 9 because you gonna use your mined like a puzzle, so trust me it is realy something eals to discover what the hiding thing and the exciting in it.

D V. gave it a0:
This movie was so awful, I'm baffled at the good reviews. Simply the worst.

jon m gave it an8:
To say this movie is bad, boring or illogical simply means you are not watching it as it was intended or you are too jaded and desensitized from all the hostels and saws of the movie world. This movie is scary and not nearly as predictable as the cynics say (I doubt so many people actually guessed the movies better twists, they were simply bored from the lack of gore and didn't care.) This film also isn't nearly as CGI heavy as people say and only a few of the effects actually weighted the movie down. Having said all that, I know it wasn't pefect and there were certain elements that could have been removed/expounded upon. The movie also did have a very stupid ending that I am still comtemplating as to how one might find it scary. This really didn't detract from the movie, however, since Cusak managed to really "resolve" the film 9/10ths of the way in anyhow. All in all, it is a movie that deserves nothing less than a 5, but with the selection we currently have to choose from, I give it an 8.

joe h gave it an8:
Good movie, not perfect, but very very chilling. Honestly, in a world where horror movies are much better than they are now, I may not like this movie very much, but with all the crap we have to sit through, I actually enjoyed have a film really creep me out. I though the shining was mindnumbingly boring when I first watched it. I read the book and LOVED it, so I assumed the movie would be the classic it was hailed as. Turns out it was just a kid riding a trike for half an hour and some goofy close ups of shelly Duvall and Jack Nicklson. The reason I tried this movie was actually BECAUSE of the PG-13 rating; I figured if the producers felt confident releasing a horror film that wasn't an R than they must have something good. Turns out this movie is one of the best psychological thrillers I have ever seen. It was both intelligent as well relatable, without trying to hard to have a moral theme. The movie just IS scary, playing of your emotions and inner most fears, and not the visceral ones either, your REAL fears, even the ones you may not have realized you had. Of course it's not perfect, and it drags in a few spots, But the plot twists and writing (plus Cusak's performance) make for a GENUINELY scary film. I can understand why some might think the movie was a little haphazard or not fully realized (I never read the short story, so I can't comment on that), but if you don't like it because it's not a gore fest than grow an imagination and step outside your little world of superviolence for something that ACTUALLY has substance.

Jack B gave it a2:
This did not make any sense at all. It wasn't even close to the thrill of "The Shining". And the movie left a huge unanswered question. What was this movie about anyway.

Job A gave it a9:
Stephen King,Steven King-only a great mind like his could make such a great movie.I've seen this movie 4 times and still love it just as much as when I first saw it.

mike gave it a0:
I actually liked how the film started out! Up to the point where he enters room 1408 and then it became a big mess of a movie!!! stay away from this movie!!!!!!!

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