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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: With a minimal amount of blood and virtually no gore, 1408 still manages to give you a major case of the creep-outs. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: It's a good, solid scare picture, modestly scaled but well-crafted. And unlike certain other horror items on offer right now, this one doesn't make you feel like a psycho-in-training for sitting through it. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Adapted from a Stephen King story, this trite but watchable chiller plays like a scaled-down version of The Shining, with Cusack driven over the edge by hallucinations of his abusive father and dead daughter. Read more
Ted Fry, Seattle Times: A genuinely disturbing and ingenious piece of horror that's as much a brainteaser as it is a feast of visual creativity. Read more
Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Based on a Stephen King story, 1408 takes the simplest plot and turns it into an enjoyably surreal, unnerving creepfest. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: 1408 amounts to little more than a radical shock-therapy session for a man still finding his way after the loss of his daughter. Best to leave him alone with his issues. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: The story features some surprises, and director Mikael Hafstrom adds realism by bypassing computer graphics for practical effects. Add in the natural fear of being trapped in tight spaces and you have a can't-miss formula for horror and suspense. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The problem with this movie is that it feels too much like a joke rather than a true work of suspense. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: A little suspension of disbelief goes a long way once the scary stuff gets going. Read more
Desiree Belmarez, Denver Post: A psychologically thrilling movie that leaves you gasping in the end. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Reassuringly old-school gothic. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: You would assume that Stephen King had wrung about all the neurosis that could be squeezed from the haunted-writer theme in Secret Window, Misery and, most famously, The Shining. You would, however, be wrong -- dead wrong. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: 1408 is not quite interesting enough to linger long in the mind, but it has enough jack-in-the-box chills to mollify those who feel it's been all downhill since The Uninvited. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: There's ghoulish fun and Hichcockian suspense until the film hits a narrative wall around the 60-minute mark. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: In this mix of recycled scares and half-hearted twists, the only real fright is the sight of an interesting actor wasting his talents in yet another mediocre movie. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: If I ever check into a hotel room and the clock radio is playing the Carpenters, I'm going to freak out. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Regardless of how long you last in 1408, the logic to which you are entitled never comes. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Quaint or not, this King adaptation chills, and may have you Googling the next hotel you're scheduled to check into, room by room. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: An entertainingly hairy paranormal affair based on a King short story, 1408 sets up its star -- and its audience -- for a blood-curdling, bone-chilling night of horror. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It reminds us what it's like to be scared in a theater rather than overwhelmed by buckets of blood and gore. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The movie attempts a false ending that doesn't quite work; the picture feels prolonged, dragged out, and its ennui lessens the impact of some of its more terrifying fillips. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: 1408 is one of the good Stephen King adaptations, one that maintains its author's sly sense of humor and satiric view of human nature. Read more
Teresa Budasi, Chicago Sun-Times: All the suspense and shock depends on [Cusack's] performance, how he reacts from minute to minute, and he does a terrific job under Mikael Hafstrom's direction. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: You might say 1408 has a 1409 ending -- beige, humdrum, only mildly uncomfortable and, once passed through on the journey home, instantly forgettable. Read more
Rob Salem, Toronto Star: Even as haunted hotel King movies go, 1408 is certainly no Shining. Not even the TV-movie version. Read more
John Anderson, Variety: Refuses to embrace the fashionable elements of torture porn that are currently cutting a bloody swath through the horror genre, relying largely on psychological terror to impart the sense of someone possibly going mad, and taking the viewer along. Read more
Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice: The horror wouldn't work without Cusack, who makes what could have been a rote acting exercise -- Be tough! Now angry! Now defensively funny! -- a cathartic ritual instead. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Listen up, all you Hostels, Saws and other purveyors of bloody terror. Lay down your whips, chain saws and paring knives to watch a truly scary movie. Read more