Cinema: 1408

Directed by Mikael Hafstrom, At cinemas nationwide, cert 15

1408: add the numbers together and you get 13. Spooked?

Not if you are cynical hack Mike Enslin, who specialises in tourism-directed ghost survival guides that sport titles like America’s Ten Most Haunted Hotels.

Depressed, sceptical, atheistic, alcoholic – it is unsurprising to discover Enslin doesn’t believe in ghosts. But when he visits the purportedly evil room 1408 at a New York hotel, he ...