Stephen King’s creepy short story
1408 provides the basis for one of the decade’s most haunting motion picture ghost stories. A good old-fashioned scarefest,
1408 is a welcome and refreshing change of pace from the flurry of gore-splattered ‘horror’ films where blood and guts replace story development that have become the genre’s norm. Don’t get me wrong, gore has its place and many of the recent batch have been decent movies. But there’s also not only room but the need for something much less bloody and much more cerebral and
1408 is it.