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Fri 08 Aug 20071408A haunted hotel room is the setting for this fun Stephen King thriller, writes Donald ClarkeAt some point in the latest of many Stephen King adaptations (by our reckoning, the 457th such beast), John Cusack, playing one of the writer's characteristic alter egos, remarks that he appears to be trapped in a Kafkaesque nightmare.