I love how every trailer for a King-based movie is like "From the master of terror, Stephen King!" when he's not that scary and every movie they make based off his stories share very little with the source material beyond title and character names. I mean, read 1408 then go see the movie. The hotel manager is described as a short, fat nervous white guy (Sam Jackson was obviously the ideal choice here), the main character's wife is mentioned only in passing, he has no daughter who died, he doesn't get attacked by ghosts, the room doesn't freeze (though it does melt), the police are not called and do not enter the room to find it empty while he's still in it and he gets away from the room fairly quickly. Also, the story is really fairly boring. King hasn't really written anything scary since probably It and he hasn't written anything interesting since Dreamcatcher. And while The Mist was a decent short story (largely an homage to Lovecraft who was a real horror author), I doubt the movie will be anything but crap.