‘1408’ (2007)

One of the more underrated Stephen King adaptations, “1408” is a classic chiller starring John Cusack as a skeptical author of haunted house books. He soon checks himself into what is billed as a particularly demonic suite. (Or, as Samuel L. Jackson puts it in the most Samuel L. Jackson way possible, “It’s an evil f*cking room.”)
Of course, given that this plays with elements of the phantasmagorical, the single-setting rules get pushed and pulled a bit, as ghostly apparitions appear and transformations occur. But the principles of the sub-genre and the sustained level of terror are both maintained throughout. Spooky!