"That room is fucking evil."
I may be more susceptible to a good scary movie than some people I know, but I found 1408 pretty riveting. It's got a minimum of the jump-cuts that I hate (it's cheating - being startled is not the same as being scared) and even though most of the movie is just John Cusack alone in a room that's trying to kill him, it kept my attention. Nice build up to the room, too.
Don't get me wrong - there are special effects galore, and once it abandons the fairly subtler psychological scares of the first part for full on Silent Hill-isms I think it lost something (although I was still pretty damn scared - there are still, as with The Ring and The Exorcist, parts of this movie I haven't seen), but it's definitely the scariest movie I've seen at the Galaxy in a while. I usually go to horror movies to laugh (they're pretty much a replacement for action movies, aren't they?) but this one creeped me out. Later at the bar one of the TVs had an ad for 1408 and I found myself shivering a little.
Don't get me wrong - there are special effects galore, and once it abandons the fairly subtler psychological scares of the first part for full on Silent Hill-isms I think it lost something (although I was still pretty damn scared - there are still, as with The Ring and The Exorcist, parts of this movie I haven't seen), but it's definitely the scariest movie I've seen at the Galaxy in a while. I usually go to horror movies to laugh (they're pretty much a replacement for action movies, aren't they?) but this one creeped me out. Later at the bar one of the TVs had an ad for 1408 and I found myself shivering a little.
