Oh Daddy, don't you love me?...

1408(dir. Mikael Håfström)
It's basically the Haunted Mansion(the ride, not the movie) except less scary and fun. Compared to Vacancy, this film depends on it's hotel room setting to change and expand through supernatural means to "entertain" it's audience instead of embracing the claustrophobic nature of having such a minuscule setting for a majority of the running time to actually create a rather unnerving atmosphere to entertain it's audience with. There's a serious lack of danger in this film to make any of it thrilling or even mildly scary. Some aspects of the film are interesting, but seem to linger with very little examination or depth. The main character having lost a daughter to some unnamed illness and being haunted by the memory of her during his stay in 1408 is certainly interesting, but this aspect of the character's history is used to manipulate it's audience to sympathize with his character more instead of being used to create a layer of depth to the film. The character also has some daddy issues even though the film doesn't bother to dwell on this any longer than probably 2 minutes. I feel I might be overly harsh for giving this film the same rating as Wild Hogs, but John Travolta's train wreck of a performance was at least a little amusing to behold while this film is an absolute bore despite being less brain-dead.
*1/2 out of ****