Dog Bytes

John Cusack keeps the home fires burning during his residence in Stephen King’s 1408.


Snake Woman’s Rock ’n’ Roll Daughter Eaten Alive


1408


2007, Dimension Home Entertainment, DD-5.1/16:9/LB/ ST/+, $19.95, 104m 3s, DVD-1 By Rebecca and Sam Umland


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Mikael Håfström’s adaptation of the Stephen King short story is an effectively creepy horror movie that has enough spine-tin- gling frissons to satisfy even the most jaded viewer, ranking among the better cinematic adaptations of King’s work. Mike Enslin (John Cusack, enacting a thoroughly compel- ling, believable performance) is a writer who has settled into the routine of acting the insolent spoilsport, writing travel books debunking the rumors of alleg- edly haunted hotels. One day, he receives an unsigned postcard warning him not to stay in Room 1408 at New York’s posh Hotel Dolphin. Thus issued a chal- lenge, Enslin immediately re- quests an overnight stay in said room, refusing to be denied. The hotel’s manager, Gerald Olin


(Samuel L. Jackson), resists Enslin’s request, warning him that Room 1408 has been the site of dozens of psychic crack-ups and grisly deaths. Yet the more Enslin hears, the more he is


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