Chris Knipp comments: If 1408 comes close to being a superior example of the old fashioned kind of scary movie--not the ramped-up youthful gore-fest that now proliferates but an evisceration-free bit of teasing mental torture--it's because Mr. Håfström is a decent director; but most of all it's because John Cusack is a fine actor, who is capable of making his emotions seem real to us. And though 1408 is very much less pleasant to watch than the haunted murder-fest of Cusack's 2003 Identity, it's also a piece with more class, a mind game, not just a whodunit.
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