The movie was extremely good. The performance of John Cusack is absolutely outstanding. The storyline is pretty engaging. All in all this is a great psychological horror flick in truest sense.

This is a great little horror movie and if you enjoy haunted house films this would be right up your alley. John Cusack plays a ghost hunter and he checks into the dolphin hotel smack in the middle of New York City for a new assignment. Samuel L Jackson plays the hotel manager and warns him against it. What follows is a nice take on the haunted house genre. Featuring some genuine creeps and buoyed by the legitimate names 108 is a nice excursion into the supernatural.

There are so many bad reviews for this movie. I don't get it. I absolutely despise John Cusack - I mean, I really hate him; he's the reason I never saw it before now even though I adore Stephen King - and I still enjoyed the hell out of it. I see people saying the character wasn't set up and his "behavioral changes" from cynical writer to emotional basket case were not explained... he's being terrorized by a haunted room. What other explanation does there need to be? I'm not sure how some people could not follow this movie, or what they were looking for. It was pretty straightforward and very well done. The man is being assaulted nonstop by a supernatural force and cannot tell what is real and what isn't. It's SUPERNATURAL. As in, a ghost story. It isn't complicated and it isn't exactly groundbreaking. If everything needs to be explained to that level, what is the point of watching these kinds of movies? Also, some are criticizing the adaptation from the story yet admitting they haven't actually read the story. If someone couldn't follow the movie, the story will make even less sense. All in all, a tight little old fashioned ghost story that I enjoyed very much, Cusack or no Cusack.

What do you do with a movie that, fairly early on, shows you that the main character suffers a serious surfboarding accident and thus is so obvious in setting up brain damage as a likely reason for the lengthier remainder of the film? What do you do with a movie that shows us how the man character can override the thermostat of his hotel room once, but then fails to do so again?? What do you do with a movie that hints at, then actually goes to a crawling-through-the ventilation-system scene with absolutely no meaningful or important result(s), ether positive or negative whatsoever for the main character??? What do you do with a movie that leads the main character to believe that a bottle of brandy may have been laced with an hallucinogenic drug, thereby accounting for what he sees as distorted and unreal, but then continues to let his situation worsen with continued drinking the brandy???? And so it seems too obvious that reviewers on the IMDB website who praise this movie have major flaws in logical thinking. And as a final closure to how ridiculous this movie truly fails, you go ahead and try to figure out the ending with no help or advice...