I hardly write reviews for horror movies but this one I just had to. One of the best film based on Stephen King's story. This movie sets a level in the minds of the audience. I would highly recommend this one who loves horror movies. This one has the perfect way of getting into your skin. The atmosphere, screenplay, cinematography and acting, everything will successfully send a chill down your spine. Its not the kind of horror film with ghastly faces and multiple voices. Its more about the mindplay or phobiatic. Something you would want and not want to see at the same time.

If the ending of the movie disappoints you, I highly recommend to watch the ending of the alternate version (Theatrical Release / Director's Cut). It adds a lot to the movie and I personally prefer the ending of the Theatrical Release.

What do you do with a movie that, fairly early on, shows you that the main character suffers a serious surfboarding accident and thus is so obvious in setting up brain damage as a likely reason for the lengthier remainder of the film? What do you do with a movie that shows us how the man character can override the thermostat of his hotel room once, but then fails to do so again?? What do you do with a movie that hints at, then actually goes to a crawling-through-the ventilation-system scene with absolutely no meaningful or important result(s), ether positive or negative whatsoever for the main character??? What do you do with a movie that leads the main character to believe that a bottle of brandy may have been laced with an hallucinogenic drug, thereby accounting for what he sees as distorted and unreal, but then continues to let his situation worsen with continued drinking the brandy???? And so it seems too obvious that reviewers on the IMDB website who praise this movie have major flaws in logical thinking. And as a final closure to how ridiculous this movie truly fails, you go ahead and try to figure out the ending with no help or advice...

Greetings from Lithuania.I loved "1408" (2007) for both viewing i have had of this picture. It was superbly simple yet effective story, but its the writing by Matt Greenberg and superb directing by Mikael Håfström who carried this movie. Sure the performance by Samuel L. Jackson was uniformly good, but it was of course John Cusack's vehicle to say the least - he is just superb in this role. I loved how they made a very involving set up and didn't let it go until the very end, which maybe could have been a bit better, stick more closely to the movie we saw before. Nevertheless, "1408" is a very involving and a truly scary movie, surely not to be missed by the fans (and not only by them) of the genre. Great horror flick.