Room Rage Sunday Nick and I hit a matinee of 1408 , a Stephen King adaptation starring John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson. I don't believe I've hit any spoilers in the following review, but there's always a danger of being told more than what some would like to know. Most Stephen King adaptations develop engine and navigation problems on the way to the screen, and as this is one case where I didn't read the source short story I can't tell you whether or not this tale went astray. I can only tell you that it was one character's search for truth and belief in something beyond the palpable, wrapped within a modestly entertaining ghost story. Cusack's character, Mike Enslin, is a writer with an at least borderline alcohol problem, whose personal tragedy has driven him the direction of writing about hauntings. Like Houdini before him, he was seeking to combine a search for validation with one of income. Subsequently he found his belief in an afterlife dismantled ...