That might not sound right, but it’s the way the story goes. Our boy Mike is also haunted by the recent loss of his young daughter Katie (Jasmine Jessica Anthony) to an illness, which made the sensitive lad so sensitive he left his sensitive wife Lily (Mary McCormack) to work things out by his lonesome. Mike Enslin (John Cusack) is a cynic, who is a nonbeliever in ghost tales and is a hack writer renown for having a blast debunking paranormal events in hotels and writing a series of books on tour guides of haunted places based on his experiences. It’s the kind of garbage spook tale that calls for more than a little suspension of belief-it calls for the viewer to experience a lobotomy. It’s written in a cheesy style by Matt Greenberg, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who try to get every phony Hollywood version of a fright scene into their slight script and should get an A for providing a laundry list of creepy scares that would make any second-rate horror story filmmaker proud. Cusack plays his usual self-absorbed cute and emotionally vulnerable self, this time going bonkers in a haunted hotel and wanting us to share his revelations that despite his suffering it’s all for the good. It’s based on a Stephen King short story called “1408” and directed by Mikael Håfström (“Derailed”) the Swede turns it into another old-fashioned King scary tale that only made me scream in agony on how hokey it was. “Only made me scream in agony on how hokey it was.” Jackson (Gerald Olin), Mary McCormack (Lily Enslin), Jasmine Jessica Anthony (Katie Enslin), Tony Shalhoub (Sam Farrell), Len Cariou (Father) Runtime: 94 MPAA Rating: PG-13 producer: Lorenzo de Bonaventura MGM and Dimension Films 2007) 1408 (director: Mikael Håfström screenwriters: Matt Greenberg, Scott Alexander/Larry Karaszewski/based on a Stephen King short story cinematographer: Benoit Delhomme editor: Peter Boyle music: Gabriel Yared cast: John Cusack (Mike Enslin), Samuel L.
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