Olin tries every (legal) method at his disposal to keep Mike out, but the author perseveres, and enters 1408 with the hope of debunking the room’s legend. Jackson) that the actual body count is much higher. While opening his mail one day, he comes across a postcard from New York City that simply reads, “Don’t go into 1408.” The postcard is from someplace called the Dolphin Hotel, and since Mike isn’t an idiot, he can put two and two together and deduce the room is from this particular hotel and want to check it out, thereby guaranteeing the writer of the postcard is either a) fiendishly clever or b) criminally stupid.įurther investigation reveals the room’s sinister record of murder and suicide, and after Mike goes to New York with the intention of spending the night in the room, he’s informed by hotel manager Gerald Olin (Samuel L. He lives alone, and hints are dropped as to some tragedy in his recent past (his young daughter died after an extended illness), a tragedy which may explain his lack of belief in the supernatural or occult. In “1408,” we meet Mike Enslin (John Cusack), a paranormal journalist who’s built a modest career out of writing travel guides about the country’s most haunted places and the like. In spite of that, the film’s screenwriters and director Mikael Håfström meet with some success in the scares department, and the end product isn’t wholly derivative. The haunted house enjoys a rich cinematic tradition, dating back at least as far as the 1924 silent short “Au secours!” This proud history works almost immediately to the disadvantage of “1408,” the latest movie based on the works of fecund horror author Stephen King, for it’s hard to come up with tweaks to a formula that jaded horror audiences haven’t already seen a few dozen times beforehand.

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