Lesson One: All you need is a simple hotel room and a lot of imagination to grab moviegoers by the throats. When Mike Enslin (Cusack), a haunted-house guidebook writer, checks into Room 1408 of ...

Considering that “1408” is essentially a movie about the relationship between a man and a room, the ever more squinty and solid Cusack seems a felicitous casting choice.

John Cusack will star in the bigscreen adaptation of Stephen King's short story "1408" for helmer Mikael Hafstrom, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Dimension Films.

The film in question is "1408," so named because the room in which the aforementioned writer stays is No. 1408. Actually, it's only the room that's haunted in the Dolphin Hotel.

Dimension Films has optioned Stephen King's short story "1408," teaming for the first time with one of the modern godfathers of horror -- a staple genre for the Miramax sister unit.

Cusack plays Mike Enslin, an author whose inner demons are unleashed when, despite warnings not to, he visits Room 1408 at a New York hotel.

Stephen King doesn’t explain why or how Room 1408 got so wicked, but in the movie based on his short story, it doesn’t much matter: once Samuel L. Jackson warns John Cusack that the cursed ...

For Halloween, studios are releasing a host of horror and fantasy films on DVD. But the spookiest thing about “1408,” a haunted-hotel-room thriller with John Cusack, is its lack of thrills.