1408 (2007)

 

A writer famous for debunking 'haunted house' stories,  stays a night at The Dolphin Hotel in the infamous room 1408, the owner begs him not to, previous guests have taken their lives to 'escape' the horrors it apparently hides.

A superb psychological, claustrophobic horror, it has an underlying sense of dread and helplessness, Cusack is awesome as usual, adapted from a short story by Stephen King and very similar in tone to the masterful 'The Shining'.The film relies on genuine scares and not buckets of blood or dopey American teens running away from rednecks, and is one of the finest mature horror films from the  past 20 years.

4.5/5