![]() ![]() The manager of the Dolphin, Gerald Olin (Sam Jackson, in a small but effective role), doesn’t want Enslin staying in the room, which - since 1912 - has been the final resting place for 56 guests, many of whom have met grisly, self-inflicted deaths and others, untimely natural ones. ![]() It will make a nice final chapter, he reckons, for his next book, Haunted Hotel Rooms. The origins of that comeuppance come in the form of an anonymous post card he receives warning him not to stay in Room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel, which is exactly what he plans to do. He’s a burned-out, atheistic skeptic - another one of King’s typical non-believers destined to get his comeuppance. In all the years that Enslin has been doing so, he’s never seen anything unusual. ![]() It’s a crawl up in your seat, hide from the projector screen, and lose-your-shit freak-out that is as scary as anything released this century.īased on a Stephen King short story, the movie concerns Mike Enslin (John Cusack), a writer who travels the country to visit locales noted for their haunted nature. It’s not a horror movie, folks it’s a fucking scary movie. There’s no mutilation, no poking, piercing, or filleting. Upon it’s release, Stephen King’s 1408 - now on Hulu - was mislabeled as a horror movie, but there’s no blood or guts here. ![]()
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