IGX

(Yes another horror movie review)

I haven't seen the theatrical release, only the Director's Cut on DVD.

Thumbs up to this one. John Cusack plays a hack author of "haunted places" books who discovers that a NY hotel has a room that is never rented out.
His agent's lawyer "persuades" the hotel mgr (Samuel L. Jackson) to let Cusack stay the night in 1408, where no one has ever lasted more than an hour.

Cusack doesn't believe in anything, but that changes pretty quick. The "evil fucking room," as SL Jackson calls it, does some monumentally cruel stuff to Cusack once it gets started. There are a few cheap scare moments, but mostly a sense of mounting claustrophobia and paranoia. Worth a rent IMO.

I didn't care for it, I really liked the set up and the beginning but felt like they used too many cheap tricks to drag it out. Definitely worth a Netflix, but I wouldn't go out of my way.

Speaking as a parent, that was an evil fucking room.

I liked the time distortion, BTW, and the ongoing confusion as to what was really happening and what was just in his head.