Still, the man sells books and the allure of that built in audience can't be ignored.ġ408 benefits from a very simple central concept. For every THE SHINING there's a MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE, for every MISERY a PET SEMATARY. If King (never a man to use a word when a page and a half of flowery prose and several local colloquisms will do) can't stretch the concept out to more than a short story, how will it fare as a feature length film? Let's face it, Stephen King adaptations vary from the spectacularly good to the spectacularly awful. The operative word in that statement is ' short'. Determined, however, he enters the room and.ah, but that would be telling.ġ408 is based on a short story by Stephen King. Invoking an old law, he compels them to do so, but not before the hotel manager attempts to talk him out of it, giving him the full history of the room. He is further intrigued when the hotel refuses to let him book into the room. When he recieves a mysterious postcard picturing New York's Dolphin Hotel with the simple message ' Don't Enter 1408' (add up the numbers), he does some research and discovers that a lot of people have died in that room. In fact, since his daughter died, he's had a hard time believing in anything anymore. He writes books about supposedly haunted places, giving them ghoul ratings, without ever believing in the supernatural. Mike Enslin is a professional ghost sceptic. Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: Powered by FeedBurner Matt Greenberg, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski Stephen King's 1408 - reviewed on the SCI FI FREAK SITE
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