When Enslin arrives at a New York hotel with a tip on a guaranteed ghostbuster night in room 1408, the manager (Samuel L. Enslin is as hard-bitten as they come, with good reason: His books have fallen out of favor and he still is licking his wounds from some domestic tragedy. In this latest fright toy out of Stephen King's short-story cabinet, Cusack plays Mike Enslin, a typically King-ish horror novelist who has made a killing debunking the authenticity of self-styled haunted inns. "1408" is not quite interesting enough to linger long in the mind, but it has enough jack-in-the-box chills to mollify those who feel it's been all downhill since "The Uninvited." "The Number 23," alas, was too stupefyingly bad to entirely forget. Oooo-weee, is there a voodoo alphabet thing going on here as well? In "1408," John Cusack also goes bananas in a spooked hotel suite with a malignant room number. The folks who brought you "1408" may be hoping you've forgotten "The Number 23," wherein Jim Carrey suffers a numerology meltdown and bounces off the walls of a haunted hotel room.
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