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1408 - Review
Length: 94 min Rated: PG-13 Distributor: MGM Release Date: 2007-06-22 Starring: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack
Directed by Mkael Hafstrom
Produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Written by Scott Alexander, Matt Greenberg, Larry Karazewski
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The movie is based on a very short story by Stephen King, which perhaps explains the unusual simplicity of its framework. The film’s screenplay colors the move in a bit around the edges by attempting to add a subplot involving Mike’s belief in an afterlife, and director Mikael Hafstrom does his best to make the story even bigger than it is otherwise in written form, but when the credits roll it’s ultimately still the story of a man stuck in an evil fucking hotel room for one, horrifying hour. Simple the movie may be, but yeah it’s really scary. It’s not just that it’s scary, it’s the way in which it’s scary. The terror doesn’t come from a bunch of jump cuts, or lame camera work in which the director goes out of his way to randomly throw things at you that make you jump out of your seat. There’s a little of that, but most of it comes from simply fearing the room and fearing what the hell it’s going to end up doing to Mike. Never has a King size bed had such an air of imminent menace, never has a mint on a pillow seemed so, well, evil. Stephen King’s story is disturbing and Mikael Hafstrom’s movie manages to make it even more so. After a lot of restraint, the movie goes a little CGI crazy at the end, but by then you’re so wrapped up in the story all that computer generated excess doesn’t hurt. If 1408 misfires at anything, it’s only in the film’s misfired attempt to reach for something bigger than simply being scary. That afterlife subplot never quite connected for me, it didn’t add that extra layer of emotion and bigger meaning that I think the script was going for. It doesn’t hurt the film, and in many ways it actually adds to the disturbing terror, but 1408 doesn’t leave you questioning the nature life and death when you walk out the door. . If you think of the movie after you leave, it’ll be only to wonder whether one of the pictures on the wall of your bedroom may be out to get you. For a humble little horror thriller like this one, I can’t think of a better compliment.
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November 15th, 2007 at 00:20
This movie was good. But for me I would rate it 3/5 stars because it just reminded me of so many Hithcock theater, the Outer Limits, Twilight Zone segments. I predicted everything that was going to happen and it scared very little of me. I take that back, the suspense for the next scene scared me enough to give it 3 stars. I would watch it again and probably buy the DVD for entertainment purposes when I have company.