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AGE
This movie looks much to scary for me, but for anyone who is a fan of the horror genre I'd say go for it!
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AGE
Do not enter room 1408
I'd liked this movie very much. The story is great and surprising. The only criticial views about the film is the end? Is the owner of the hotel (Samuel. L. Jackson) a bad or good guy, because of his last line in the film? And the ghosts weren't convincing at all. But further a filmconcept.
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AGE
Be Mature for this
Be a mature kid for this cause it will scare you to heck.
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AGE
not scary enought
this movie was really good best one i saw this month
must see film
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AGE
Really a dud.
The movie started out with a lot of promise, and exciting spooky buildup. But it doesn't deliver. It just turns weird and "psychological" in a drab way. There's nothign scary or exciting about anything that happens to him in the room.
It's like waiting in line for the Tower of Terror ride and ending up with It's a Small World. It's not a bad movie; just disappointing.
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AGE
What makes this movie tick?
A lot of kids complained that it wasn't "scary". But here's the thing...the movie is like.. Saw, if you will. Just minus the gore. It makes you think. It makes you go, "Oh god, what would you do if you were in a room that would trap you forever after 50 minutes?"
That is like Saw. You have a limited time to do something and LIVE.
In the credits it mentions Stephen King had something to do with this. That's what I like about Stephen King, he makes you think.
So this movie was really good.
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AGE
Good First Scary Movie...
This is a good first scary movie for teens because its not too scary, more like a thriller. And all these people saying that this movie has no plot and it dont make sense, here it is. He dies on the beach. 1408 representes hell, and his daughter is in heaven. Now watch the movie again knowing this.
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AGE
Pretty twisted/spooky thrillride was awesome!
Stephen King is a genius and also the most demented person on the planet to write such a breathtaking and heartpounding story. The movie's content: SEX: Mike flips on the TV and sees the pay-per-view order screen for a series of porn films. A painting shows a woman baring her breast to feed what appears to be a dead child on her lap. LANGUAGE: The f-word knocks once, while the s-word pounds 10 times. Other profanities include four or five uses each of "a--," "h---" and "d--n." "B--ch" and "b--t*rd" also show up. Jesus and God are both blasphemed, with God's name being mixed four times with the word "d--n." VIOLENCE: We catch quick glimpses of photographs of several blood-splattered dead bodies, along with a close-up of what appears to be someone's throat wound and a woman drowned in the bathtub.Several ghostly specters of previous suicide victims in the room jump out of its window. Mike's hand is smashed in the same window and then scalded by steam. He wraps the bleeding mitt in a cloth, but blood soaks through, streaking walls and furniture. Mike sees a vision of his daughter walking over broken plaster with bleeding feet. Later, he hugs her close to himself, and she dies in his arms and crumbles to ash. Mike is attacked by several ghoulish creatures (he kicks one, and its skull-like head crumbles).
While the violence doesn't seem bad, the entire movie is so tense, it spooked even me a little - 'course, that could be because I stay in hotels a lot. I recommend an edited version, such as ClearPlay DVD player (clearplay*) Watch this movie!
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AGE
Great horror movie...
This is a fantastic movie! It's got a lot of suspense, and creepy stuff. But (unless discussion of suicides and a guy who gets his hand stuck in a window count) there's almost no true violence in the movie. Its entire focus is on the character's psychology. John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson do a great job with their roles, and manage to be cute and likeable. This is also probably the best example of horror drama I can name, though the movie is more of a drama than the Stephen King short story it's based on.
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AGE
CONFUSED!
THE MOVIE DIDNT GIVE THE MEANING BEHIND IT AT ALL..IT WAS ALL TO TWISTED AND YOU COULDNT FIGURE OUT WHY HE WAS TRAPPED IN THE ROOM...IT NEVER TOLD WHY PEOPLE WERE GETTING KILLED IN THE ROOM..PEOPLE WERE JUST DYING..AND IT NEVER TOLD WHY HE SURVIVED THE ROOM AND WHY HE WAS GOING THROUGH WHAT HE WAS GOING THROUH..THEN THE ENDING WAS AWFUL...IT ENDED BAD! IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE AFTER HE PLAYED THE VOICE RECORDER OF HIS LITTLE GIRL...BUT IT ENDED LIKE THERE IS GOING TO BE A PART 2 TO THE MOVIE.
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AGE
Very good psychological thriller
1408 is a suspencful psychological thriller starring John Cusack, Samual L. Jackson and Mary McCormack. John Cusack is a very underated actor who is very good portraying a depressed man who is greiving over his daughter's death. So he writes books about the paranormal. When he hears that a hotel room is haunted. He goes to check it out. Although warned, he still goes up to the room. Up in the room, he sees things so bizarre that you wouldn't believe it if it was true. But what if it is true? Find out for yourself.
5 out of 5 stars.
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AGE
Grood (good & great)
Pretty intense for youngens. It seems as if the room was relentless of inflicting damage on John Cusak's character. I thought the acting was very under rated. Cusak was perfect for this kin of role. There is a mild amount of drinking, but its in a good way. The movie seems to look negativly on it. Its just something that kids are going to have to accept, PEOPLE DRINK! great movie though. definitly iffy for kids, wasn't too scary to me, but very intense.
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AGE
More Weird than Scary
This movie really wasn't very scary, it was just weird. I'm usually scared (I jump several times the first time I watched SHAUN of the Dead [it's a comedy]), but this movie really didn't scare me.
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AGE
So amazingly bad! Why is this movie so popular?
Ok, this movie was a total waste of time. It's supposed to be scary. It wasn't scary in anyway. All this crap that happened was so dumb and didn't make sense and was just stupid and nothing was actual scary. And also they also tried to make it like the startling kind of scary too, trying to make you jump but i never even came close to jumping once and OMG it was just so bad!!
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AGE
LOVED it
I loved this movie, I do recommend it to anyone who likes horror movies. The Language was ok one main F word but thats all i remember. one thing i didnt like was the excessive drinking, when the main charcter became stressed or scared or even bored he would drink witch i feel is not a good idea for kids to view. I the volence is not really one on one it just is mainly talks about what happend to people who stayed in the room, includes pictures. I loved it and i think u should be 13 and up, there are alot of jumpy moments but, it is really good! :]
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AGE
1408
I thougt that this movie was an interesting failure. John Cusack is good, and it's smarter than most horror movies, but it just didn't quite work. It tries to be scary in an abstract and wierd way, sort of like The Shining, but the scares didn't partcularly work. I actually was laughing, just because some of the surreal parts struck me as very funny instead of disturbing. And I also didn't really like this movie's many false endings, after a while I just wanted it to end already. An interesting film, gets an 'A' for effort, but if you're looking for something suspenseful look elsewhere.
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AGE
A good Movie.
A Thriller not a horror but a good Catholic meaning.
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