Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel up in the secluded mountains of Colorado. Jack being a family man takes his wife and son to the hotel to keep him company throughout the long and isolated nights. During their stay strange things occur when Jack's son Danny sees gruesome images powered by a force called ""The Shining"" and Jack is heavily affected by this. Along with writer's block and the demons of the hotel haunting him Jack has a complete mental breakdown and the situation takes a sinister turn for the worse.
A true classic. 'The Shining' is haunting in every way a psychological thriller should be and even the use of the somewhat clichéd aspects of horror films, such as cute little girls singing songs and visions of what may or may not be there, can be overlooked because, basically, they work. There are so many classic scenes that would be spoilt to just read about them in a review. They have to be seen. And when they are seen, they will take a long time to be forgotten. And when they are forgotten, they will be remembered with the help of the many parodies of them used in other media. Like the terms we use now that were coined in Orwell's '1984' (Big Brother and Room 101, for example), the iconic scenes from 'The Shining' have been imitated and remoulded for other uses many times over, just showing in what a bright shining light this film is seen the world over.
Having recently watched a television adaptation of Henry James' 'The Turn of the Screw', it seems apparent that Stephen King (the author of the short story 'The Shining') took strong influence from James in respect to the nuances and ideas about ghost stories but Stanley Kubrick directs the film in such a way that it seems like the most original thing in the world, like he did with many other films.
In short, it is possibly one of the best films ever made and everyone of suitable age and disposition should see it.
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Stanley Kubrick directs this chilling adaptation of the Stephen King shocker. Seeking solitude in order to write a novel, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as an off-season caretaker at the remote Overlook Hotel in Colorado. Eager to get started, Jack disregards warnings that the isolation drove a former caretaker mad, and moves into the massive resort with his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd). But Danny has a supernatural gift which makes him aware of an evil lurking in the hotel, and sure enough, as winter storms cut the hotel off from civilisation, Jack gradually becomes murderously insane.
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