Borrowed this DVD from the local library, I never thought that it was a Stephen King's movie until much later. Johnny Depp played the role of the unhappy writer who lost his wife to someone else very well. Not only that, he was being bothered by a persistent and creepy person, who kept annoying him, accusing him of stealing his novel.
You would sympathise right at once with this writer, who just lost his wife, and who still tried to get over his break-up at an isolated place, far away from his old home.
You would want to be with him all the way, to give him at least, your spiritual support, while he tried to cope with all the new changes of his life, with being stalked about by a creepy and dangerous person...
but hang on there, how if he was not truly being stalked by anyone at all, and that all the killings, violence and misdeeds happened, were all done by him, the writer himself?
I think the movie was quite a success, in having a very twisted and surprised ending!
Monday, September 3, 2007
Sunday, September 2, 2007
1408, movie, 2007
hmm, so this one was another product of Stephen King... (confirmed it just now from reading other people's comments).
Kept hearing about this movie, I thought the plot was intriguing enough, for me to really sit down and try finding out what all the talks were about...
Since I was never really care much for horror movies, it took me a while to really commit myself into watching it. Of course, I had to be very careful about the time, the location, blah blah blah, before I really turned on the movie. (I did not want to have my kids or myself to have unneccessary nightmares as a result of watching this specific movie!)...
It was surely a scary one OK, with series of events here and there that went on and on, resembled a kind of never ending nightmares.
Plot: A writer who wrote books about spirits and the other side world, found himself involved in the investigation of a horror room in a specific hotel. He tried to record everything by talking into a tape recorder. He was warned agaisnt having that room, for it was famous in killing or maiming people once the door was closed. The writer strongly believed that it was just a normal trick which many hotels had used to advertise and attract curious visitors.
He was given a box of chocolate as well as a bottle of expensive wine. All the horrors happened later within that room, made the writer wondered whether he was drugged (from the chocolate and wine provided), so that he would be under constant horrific illusions, witnessing images in which people suicided, of blood, of dead bodies, of terrible sufferings and cryings... But the most horrible experience which happened to him, was to face the last hour of his little daughter again, with his wife. Guess that the room had the effect of feeding on people's unhappiness and hidden sufferings, he tried to fight agaisnt it, only to find out that it refused to let him get out alive.
Went through the experience of being left on the cold (in freezing condition due to a malfunctioned thermostat in the room), then drown, then almost being burried alive with everything collapsing around him, then fire, he was lucky to get out alive finally!
When telling his wife of his time with his dead daughter in the haunted room, being hugged by her, talked to her, etc, of course - his wife thought he was still under the influenced of the fire (you have to watch it to understand more about this), until the tape recorder by chance, still having that short conversation recorded. (How did it survive the fire?)
John Cusack was marverlous in his role as the writer who tried to face his grief, as well as all the horrors which the room threw at him.
Samuel L Jackson's role in this movie as the hotel manager was real creepy. Since the movie was a bit tangled here and there, I couldn't figure out if he was truly a good manager or what!
All in all, the movie was quite successful in scarying the hell out of me!
Kept hearing about this movie, I thought the plot was intriguing enough, for me to really sit down and try finding out what all the talks were about...
Since I was never really care much for horror movies, it took me a while to really commit myself into watching it. Of course, I had to be very careful about the time, the location, blah blah blah, before I really turned on the movie. (I did not want to have my kids or myself to have unneccessary nightmares as a result of watching this specific movie!)...
It was surely a scary one OK, with series of events here and there that went on and on, resembled a kind of never ending nightmares.
Plot: A writer who wrote books about spirits and the other side world, found himself involved in the investigation of a horror room in a specific hotel. He tried to record everything by talking into a tape recorder. He was warned agaisnt having that room, for it was famous in killing or maiming people once the door was closed. The writer strongly believed that it was just a normal trick which many hotels had used to advertise and attract curious visitors.
He was given a box of chocolate as well as a bottle of expensive wine. All the horrors happened later within that room, made the writer wondered whether he was drugged (from the chocolate and wine provided), so that he would be under constant horrific illusions, witnessing images in which people suicided, of blood, of dead bodies, of terrible sufferings and cryings... But the most horrible experience which happened to him, was to face the last hour of his little daughter again, with his wife. Guess that the room had the effect of feeding on people's unhappiness and hidden sufferings, he tried to fight agaisnt it, only to find out that it refused to let him get out alive.
Went through the experience of being left on the cold (in freezing condition due to a malfunctioned thermostat in the room), then drown, then almost being burried alive with everything collapsing around him, then fire, he was lucky to get out alive finally!
When telling his wife of his time with his dead daughter in the haunted room, being hugged by her, talked to her, etc, of course - his wife thought he was still under the influenced of the fire (you have to watch it to understand more about this), until the tape recorder by chance, still having that short conversation recorded. (How did it survive the fire?)
John Cusack was marverlous in his role as the writer who tried to face his grief, as well as all the horrors which the room threw at him.
Samuel L Jackson's role in this movie as the hotel manager was real creepy. Since the movie was a bit tangled here and there, I couldn't figure out if he was truly a good manager or what!
All in all, the movie was quite successful in scarying the hell out of me!
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