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Based on a story by suspense master Stephen King, 1408 is a gripping "roller-coaster of a head trip" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly) that will have you on the edge of your seat. John Cusack delivers "a tour de force performance" (Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter) as a skeptical writer investigating paranormal events. When he insists on staying in the reportedly haunted suite 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel against the grave warnings of the hotel manager (Samuel Jackson), he discovers the room's deadly secret - an evil so powerful, no one has ever survived an hour within it's walls. In the tradition of King's the Shining and Misery, 1408 is "a psychologically thrilling movie that leaves you gasping in the end" (Desiree Belmarez, Denver Post).
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Based on a story by suspense master Stephen King, 1408 is a gripping "roller-coaster of a head trip" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly) that will have you on the edge of your seat. John Cusack delivers "a tour de force performance" (Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter) as a skeptical writer investigating paranormal events. When he insists on staying in the reportedly haunted suite 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel against the grave warnings of the hotel manager (Samuel Jackson), he discovers the room's deadly secret - an evil so powerful, no one has ever survived an hour within it's walls. In the tradition of King's the Shining and Misery, 1408 is "a psychologically thrilling movie that leaves you gasping in the end" (Desiree Belmarez, Denver Post).

This much-requested made-for-TV adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel stars Michael Sarrazin as the creature given life by Victor Frankenstein (Leonard Whiting), who witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori (James Mason). David McCallum, Jane Seymour, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, and Tom Baker also star. 183 min. Standard; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English.

Four-disc set includes Christine (1983)She's a 1958 Plymouth with jealousy and evil under her hood, but Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) isn't aware of his new ride's demonic qualities when he buys her, lovingly restores her, and names her "Christine." As the nerdish teen turns into a cocky braggart who scores with a popular girl (Alexandra Paul), Christine grows violently possessive of her new owner. Harry Dean Stanton, Roberts Blossom co-star in this John Carpenter shocker based on Stephen King's best-seller. 110 min. C/Rtg R Stand By Me (1986)Low-key sleeper hit, directed by Rob Reiner and based on the novella "The Body" by Stephen, follows four young boys (River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Wil Wheaton) in 1959 Oregon who set out on a Labor Day camping trip in order to see a dead body one of them accidentally found. Along the way the friends take some hesitant steps on the road to maturity. Co-stars Kiefer Sutherland, Casey Siemaszko, John Cusack; Richard Dreyfuss is the narrator. 89 min. C/Rtg R Sleepwalkers (1992)In his first film written directly for the screen, Stephen King tells the story of small-town teenager Charles Brady (Brian Krause) and his beautiful mother (Alice Krige), who may appear perfectly normal but turn into catlike demons called "sleepwalkers" who need to extract the lifeforce from virgins to stay alive. After Charles falls for a school beauty (Mädchen Amick), can he resist his primitive desire to make her another victim? Diabolical and erotic thriller co-stars Lyman Ward, Cindy Pickett, Ron Perlman. 89 min. C/Rtg R Apt Pupil (1998)After he discovers that an elderly neighbor was a notorious Nazi death camp officer, a teenager obsessed with the Holocaust blackmails the man into graphically recounting the horrors of his past crimes. The cat-and-mouse game between the two reaches a murderous intensity in this suspenseful adaptatio