His ex-wife on the other hand did and passed that on to her daughter which he resented. He is not a spiritual person and does not believe in such things. I think that these issues weighed on him and he never had any real emotional closure with any of them. Lastly, he left his wife abruptly after Katie’s death without ever discussing his reasons with her. He also had repressed feelings about his relationship with his father. I saw Mike as a person filled with varying emotions that surrounded the premature death of his daughter Katie. The second time through that anticipation is removed and you end up seeing things you may not have noticed before. I suspect that part of the reason is that with film’s like this you find yourself focusing more on what is about to happen rather than what is happening at the moment. John Cusack’s character Mike, seemed more sympathetic and I got more out of his performance here than from my first viewing. After this re-visit I felt that I enjoyed it more this time. I didn’t have a strong enough reaction to it that I wanted to pick up the DVD but when I heard of its release on Blu-ray my interest in it was aroused. I thought that it was okay and I liked the concept of this inexplicable evil inherent in this one room in the hotel. Being both a John Cusack and Sam Jackson fan made this an easy sell for me. I saw 1408 when in the theater when it was released in during the summer of 2007. Jackson), he discovers the room's deadly secret - an evil so powerful, no one has ever survived an hour within its walls.

When he insists on staying in the reportedly haunted room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel against the grave warnings of the hotel manager (Samuel L. Written by: Matt Greenberg, Scott Alexander, and Larry Karaszewski based on the short story by Stephen Kingīlu-ray Disc release Date: September 16, 2008īased on a short story by suspense master Stephen King, 1408 stars John Cusack as a skeptical writer investigating paranormal events. Studio and Year: Weinstein Company - 2007Īudio Format(s): English Dolby TrueHD 5.1, English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround

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