I just watched the movie 1408 , £6.99 in the hmv sale  .
It's from a Stephen King novel , with does'nt bode well  because , apart from Carrie , and Misery , most screen adaptations of his work have been dire .
It stars John Cusack as a poor chap separated from his wife , because being with her reminds him too much of their young daughter who died .
He has no belief in the paranormal but writes books about 'haunted' hotels and motels , that he's researched and stayed in .
He recieves an anonymous postcard daring him to investigate room 1408 of New York's Dolphin Hotel .
Despite being strenuously warned against spending a night in it by the hotel  Manager played By Samuel L Jackson he gets his  way , and either the room is posessed by a malicious evil that deranges the minds of its inhabitants , or has Samuel Jackson plied him with hallucinogens . .  ?
Real or imagined his night there of course turns out to be far more terrifying than he could possibly have anticipated .
Then , 1hr 15 mins into it there's an interesting 'twist' that I  had'nt seen coming .
Then , nine minutes later  it gets weird and silly again .
Either it all brilliantly makes perfect sense if you think about it and I'm too dim to 'get it' , or it's a muddlesome mess that makes little if any sense .
It includes a few sudden shocks , which cannot be directorially difficult to achieve .
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Earlier I uploaded onto this my 'blog a short vid clip of my cat , rolling around on the carpet on Saturday morning with his organic cat-nip thing , but it would'nt play here so I deleted it .
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Well done to Her Majesty , instructed by the foreign office , for having belatedly stripped Mugabe of his honorary british knigthood or whatever it was .
The brilliant , legendary former jockey Lester Piggot , who has never been responsible for the death , beating or torture of anyone was swiftly stripped of his honour , some years ago , after being found guilty of tax-evasion  .
According to the ITN news that I watched earlier the death-toll in Zimbabwe from the recent violence committed by sadistic thugs acting for Mugabe is far higher than was previously estimated , and they are joyously revelling  in a wild orgy of sickening violence even against anyone unconnected with the opposition MDC party , who were forced to withdraw from this friday's rigged election , who happens to be for them in the wrong place at the wrong time .
I hope I'm not being too naive in saying forget  Afghanistan and Iraq , let the U.S troops deal with their leaders ill thought out catastrophe's - Send British troops into the former british colony Zimbabwe to permanantly rid it of Mugabe - even if he does have to quietly live out the rest of his life in luxury in South Africa - And to help to install a stable , democratically elected government there before withdrawing .
One Million percent Inflation , a life expectancy of 37 , murder , torture , rape , corruption . . .
So what's holding our government back from sending troops there : A terror of being accused of colonialism , and therefore also racism , of course .
And there's no chance of british troops withdrawing from Iraq or Afghanistan because we rely on NATO for protection in the event of disaster , and it sounded as if Bush's lot had written Brown's speech , during their recent joint press conference .