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Stephen King’s Most Under-the-Radar Movie?

This week on Two Shot Tuesday, we revisit 1408 (2007) — the Stephen King adaptation that somehow slipped past a lot of people, despite delivering one of the most intense single-location psychological thrillers of the 2000s.

Starring John Cusack in a near one-man performance and Samuel L. Jackson in peak cool-and-cryptic form, the film traps its lead inside a haunted hotel room that doesn’t rely on ghosts so much as pure psychological warfare.

We break down:

How this short story adaptation punches above its weight

The differences between the theatrical and director’s cuts

And how the 4K…

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