Well what did everybody think of 1408?

[theconstantreader]

I thought is was really good! John Cusack did a great job, too! The story is still worth reading if you haven't yet!!

[pauljj]

The story was good, but the movie sucked. One man alone in a room for about an hour was never going to be great, I suppose.

[Sprite]

One of my favourite adaptations.....also one of the few movies that actually creeped me out.

[HorrorMama]

I read the story first and than saw the movie.. and if you read it first than watch it it sucks about 20 minutes in and so on..

[Bubonic]

I've yet to read the story, but I must say that I loved the movie. It had some genuine scares, a good pace, good visuals, I guess the story must be vastly superior if many seem to dislike the adaptation. What was so bad about the movie? As far as Stephen King inspired movies it is one of my tops, being as many of the adaptations have been garbage this was pretty refreshing. And I am not in any way being derisive about King's work, just what people often make of it.

[SEShell]

I thought that it was a good Read and Movie, especially for people that don't enjoy reading. With regards to the comment of "one man being stuck in a room alone" King has used this is two previous novels. Both Cujo and Geralds Game, have this concepts in common. In Cujo the mother and child were stuck in the car for hours while in Geralds Game the woman was handcuffed to her bed. King uses this to really seclude readers. I enjoy the scare of being stuck alone in a room to face my own fears. And to have that added aspect of spending the same hour in the room over and over again gives you the reality of no escape!
I think that it is a very useful tool that King likes to use, and considering that most of us end up cooping ourselves up in a room or in my case a closet alone to read his books, it makes it feel more real to us. And when we are alone in a room we feel kind of safe, and now that safety is taken away from us. And that is sheer genius!

[blernblan]

I loved the story. It's scary, creepy, and, though the movie is good the story's superior.

The story is superior really? I think you need to re-read the story. The story is exactly what they portrayed in the movie except with a lot less content... not exactly sure how less content makes it superior..

[Bubonic]

The story is superior really? I think you need to re-read the story. The story is exactly what they portrayed in the movie except with a lot less content... not exactly sure how less content makes it superior..

Okay, so I haven't read it, but I can conceive of it being better simply for the prose and admittance into the mind of the protagonist. A lot of people also enjoy the worlds they create within their minds more then what any director can come up with. Purely subjective though, although quantity never equates to quality as a rule.

[Ben.]

I watched 1408 in the cinemas (twice) way back in high school and it had some pretty scary moments in it. My body tingled head to toe in terror when they started tearing the post office down to reveal the hotel room - it seemed like a moment that wasn't supposed to be scary as such, more a moment of despair. But boy, it got me.

[Sophiia]

LOVE IT. Where I work, we always have the radio on. Turned it on the other day, and guess what started playing? We've only just beun... AHH! REALLY scared me!