Someone has seen 1408

Someone posted a review of 1408 over on Aintitcool.com. He has mostly very good things to say about the movie. He said he has not read the story nor heard the audio version of this story, so he obviously couldn't compare the two. Just from the previews I can see that the story has been expanded upon. Of course, it was a fairly short story, so it would have to be expanded upon in order to flesh it out to a feature length movie. It looks like they added a subplot about a dead kid and they've elaborated on a lot of the happenings in the room. One thing they didn't really show in the trailer, but I loved from the story, was touched upon in the review linked here. He made some comparisons to the hedge animals in The Shining, which means that something happens when you aren't looking or can't see it, but you know it's happening. Well, in the story, this happens numerous times. There is a piece of woodcut art depicting a cabin and a man, then when he looks at it later, it's changed and there is a wolf eating the man. There is also a creepy part where he walks into the bedroom and there is a bowl of fruit on the night stand. He looks around a bit and looks back and there is no bowl of fruit, but there is a painting of a bowl of fruit above the nightstand. He looks back later and the bowl of fruit is rotton. There is all sorts of stuff like that happening in the story. I'm just hoping that capture that sort of thing in the movie while they're adding all their special effects and shocking horror.