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DVD : 1408 (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)In association with Amazon.comstarring: John Cusack  List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $15.99 You Save: $8.96 (36%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)Binding: DVD EAN: 0796019807746 Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Weinstein Company Manufacturer: Weinstein Company Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Weinstein Company Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 02, 2007 Running Time: 112 minutes Studio: Weinstein Company Theatrical Release Date: June 22, 2007 Sales Rank: 104 MPN: 80774 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: (Thriller) Based on a short story by Stephen King, a man who specializes in debunking the paranormal checks into the infamous room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel, only to discover… the terror is real. Amazon.com: As creepfests go, 1408 is right up there with The Shining, also inspired by a Stephen King work and featuring a menacing hotel and the wobbly sanity of a writer lodging there. "It's an evil [bleep]-ing room!" intones Samuel L. Jackson, who plays the smooth but vaguely sinister manager of the Dolphin Hotel. John Cusack is stellar as Mike Enslin, a cynical Everyschlub who writes "occult travel guides," but believes in nothing, especially anything resembling an afterlife. What happens in room 1408 of the Dolphin may change Enslin forever--if he survives the first hour. The thrills range from jumpy "gotcha" moments involving mirror images, to more traditional horror fare like bleeding walls, to truly diabolical touches like the recurrence of the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun." (Shudder.) The film does a nice job of weaving the operatic horror effects with the truly heart-breaking backstory of the death of Enslin's young daughter and his marriage--perhaps the only two things Enslin has ever believed in. And thankfully, there's just enough humor to leaven the intensity at key moments; Cusack is unparalleled when it comes to delivering a self-deprecating wisecrack, even as his life passes before his eyes. Get your adrenaline pumping and check into this room. Oh, and sorry, no refunds. A.T. Hurley Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Boooo!Just too over the top. I think Horror movies are more enjoyable when there is a sense of realisim in them. The events which took place in this room would be more appreciated in a fantasy world not a horror movie. I also feel that john cusack as an actor wasnt very convincing in this roll either. Rating:  - A Fantastic Movie, Mediocre 'Collectors' EditionWhen 1408 was first released into theaters, I had heard mixed reviews, not from critics, but from friends of mine who had managed to catch screenings of it before I did. Not that that was hard to do, mind you, because I rarely, if ever, went to see films in the theaters. I think in recent years the only film I was going to see in theaters was 30 Days of Night, but was unable to due to a stint in the hospital. Going back to the mixed reviews, a friend of mine, who was also a big fan of horror movies, ... Read More Rating: - 1408I had forgotton how intense this movie was....After I got this movie I got another one and put it away for a Christmas present....I just adore Amazon!!!! Rating:  - TYPICAL HOLLYWOODI just finished watching 1408. Imagine taking about, oh, 20 movies. Cutting out pieces of them from each reel, splicing those pieces together and calling it a new movie. At no time did this film frighten me. At all times it confused me. I kept trying to find a plot and right up to the end, couldn't find one. I'm angry that I got suckered into thinking, once again, that Hollywood still had the ability to make a good movie. Save your money, folk. This is a real bad one. Rating: - Well produced and directed... but it all looks as harmless as Disneyworld.John Cusack - a great actor - is very good as the protagonist of this story: an once honest author who now makes up stories about haunted hotels. So he is a non believer... and when faced with a hotel room everybody fears, it is obvious that he knows there's nothing in there except the imagination of those who enter the room. That is a great premise... but here it fails completely because the film does not offer anything interesting, scary or simply offbeat to surprise the audience. Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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