Upon first entering the room in question, all seems to be standard hotel fare-with modest living quarters, a sizable bedroom, and some eclectic oil paintings. Since the audience lives vicariously through his character as he endures the horrors of the room, we need something comfortable and familiar to latch on to, and Mike Enslin is just the guy.ĭo Not Disturb: As it is discovered when Mike first attempts to check into 1408 of the aged but tasteful Dolphin Hotel, no one has lasted more than an hour inside the room and it has caused at least 56 deaths in the last 95 years. Cusack wears those dark shadows of skepticism on his face the entire movie, eventually succumbing to a terror too unimaginable even for a creative such as himself. He’s edgy (not just because he carries around a trusty cigarette when the moods calls for it), he’s disgruntled (despite having a reasonably successful career as a “Top 10 Scary Places” horror writer), and best of all, he’s a skeptic who wants to believe. Jackson) who claims the room is pure evil.Ĭhecking In: The film’s protagonist is a typical concoction of King’s-being a novelist with a forlorn past that overshadows his salvageable future-and Cusack plays that role to a tee. 1408 : Based on Stephen King’s eponymous short story, this underrated psychological horror follows writer Mike Enslin ( John Cusack) as he attempts to spend the night in the notorious room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel, despite warnings from the hotel manager ( Samuel L.
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