The Shining (1980)

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Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within. Title

: The Shining

Release Date

: May 22, 1980

Runtime

: 144 minutes

MPAA Rating

:R

Genres

: Horror, Thriller

Production Co.

: Hawk Films, Producers Circle, Warner Bros., Peregrine

Production Countries

: United Kingdom

Director

: Stanley Kubrick

Writers

: Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, Diane Johnson

Casts

:

Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Philip Stone, Joe Turkel, Anne Jackson, Tony Burton, Barry Dennen, Lia Beldam, Billie Gibson

Plot Keywords

:

hotel, isolation, hotelier, colorado, maze, visions, bartender, ax, lonelyness, delusion, caretaker, snow, title spoken by character, writer, alcoholic, stephen king, snowed in, room 217, off season

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The Shining Reviews  Best Horror Film I've Ever Seen by us012862 on 27 August 2000

458 out of 566 people found the following review useful: When this film first came out in 1980, I remember going to see it on opening night. The sheer terror that I experienced in viewing "The Shining" was enough to make me go to bed with the lights turned ON every night for an entire summer. This movie just scared the life out of me, which is what still happens every time I rent the video for a re-watch. I have seen The Shining at least six or seven times, and I still believe it to be simultaneously and paradoxically one of the most frightening and yet funniest films I've ever seen. Frightening because of the extraordinarily effective use of long shots to create feelings of isolation, convex lens shots to enhance surrealism, and meticulously scored music to bring tension levels to virtually unbearable levels. And "funny" because of Jack Nicholson's outrageous and in many cases ad-libbed onscreen antics. It never ceases to amaze me how The Shining is actually two films in one, both a comedy AND a horror flick. Ghostly apparitions of a strikingly menacing nature haunt much of the first half of the film, which gradually evolve into ever more serious physical threats as time progresses. Be that as it may, there is surprisingly little violence given the apparent intensity, but that is little comfort for the feint of heart as much of the terror is more implied than manifest. The Shining is a truly frightening movie that works symbolically on many levels, but is basically about human shortcomings and the way they can be exploited by unconscious forces combined with weakness of will. This film scares the most just by using suggestion to turn your own imagination against you. The Shining is a brilliant cinematic masterpiece, the likes of which have never been seen before or since. Highly, highly recommended. - Paul 

A truly brilliant and scary film from Stanley Kubrick. by unbreakablepabs ([email protected]) on 29 June 2003

427 out of 547 people found the following review useful: I can't praise this film long enough! The Shining is, without doubt, one of Stanley Kubrick's undisputed masterpieces and a true classic in horror cinema. It is a film that, over the course of the years, has managed to scare the living hell out of its audiences (and still does). The film is an adaptation of Stepehen King's original novel, written in the late '70s, and although the film is not very loyal to the book, it still stands as a thing of its own.