The Shining

The Shining

1980 "A masterpiece of modern horror."
The Shining
The Shining

The Shining

8.4 | 2h24m | R | en | Horror

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.

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8.4 | 2h24m | R | en | Horror , Thriller | More Info
Released: May. 23,1980 | Released Producted By: Hawk Films , Warner Bros. Pictures Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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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.

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Cast

Jack Nicholson , Shelley Duvall , Danny Lloyd

Director

Leslie Tomkins

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Hawk Films , Warner Bros. Pictures

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Tyson Hunsaker "The Shining" is Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece horror adaption of Stephen King's novel by the same name. The story follows Jack Torrence played by Jack Nicholson with his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and his gifted son Danny (Danny Lloyd). Jack Torrence has accepted the job to be the caretaker of the Overlook is alone and isolated with his family up in the snowy mountains of Colorado. As the harsh winter settles, Jack slowly grows insane and dangerous and his family becomes terrified of his growing instability and hostility. "The Shining" is notorious for departing far from King's original novel in characterization, tone, and narrative. While there is a departure from the novel, the essential story remains the same while both creative's approach vastly differs. Many have called "The Shining" has one of the greatest horror films ever made. For me, even when I watch it now it remains a chilling and terrifying film to this day. One of the great strengths the film has is a constant terror of the real/unreal visions and hallucinations the characters experience as the Overlook Hotel comes to life. The sequence of events lined out in the script combined with Kubrick's meticulous technical abilities make for not just a frightening story but a surreal experience that feels more like an imaginative nightmare. Kubrick's character of Jack Torrence feels less of a genuine character than King's character and more of an incarnation of evil as presented by the Overlook Hotel. Throughout the picture, the two separate entities seems to mesh and become on to the point where I believed everything that was being presented and yet, believed nothing. The film's attempt to confuse the audience and suggest multiple interpretations of the truth is perhaps the film's biggest departure from its source material. It also may be its strongest asset. "The Shining" is a subjective experience and one of the most essential horror films ever made. It's worth the status it has achieved by now by its meticulous direction, precise shooting and cutting, and subjective interpretive content and delivery. Everyone should get around to seeing this film at least once but should really be seen several times. Much like other Kubrick films, it's an experience that changes over time and with each viewing. What might turn off viewers is perhaps the ruthlessly unreliable narrative that it transforms into. Right up to the very end shot of the photograph of Jack Torrence, it could prove too distant from definitive interpretation that some passive viewers may not be interested in the re-watch.
jcappo-94545 Wasn't good as I thought I know a lot of people liked this movie but in my own opinion I just wasn't a fan I thought it was boring and the ending was quite dull but that is just my opinion I think it would be interesting to see a remake of this movie like they did with IT I thought the remake of IT was much much better then the original
cinemajesty Movie Review: "The Shining" (1980)A novel adaptation as it should be. Mastermind director Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) takes Stephen King's late 1970s supreme horror novel mingling it into the arthouse Hollywood corner with leading star actor Jack Nicholson giving a picture-carrying stand-out Performance for the ages by terrorizing his film family neighborhood, when actress Shelley Duvall seemingly fights for your screening life in particular major precision shots, when not one scene fails to amaze by a lingering terrifying horror in glittering eyes of constant confrontation without missing out in moments of goose-bumping tenderness between perfectly directed child actor Danny Lloyd and fulltime comdian / musician Scatman Crothers (1910-1986).Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC 2018
Dom Nickson Reviewing this movie I must start off by saying I was at first disappointed with the way the film bares little resemblance to the book. One of which being how the movie starts off with Jack already interviewing for the job at the hotel. We know very little about this character when he's first shown and don't have any idea about his background. At least with the story we get an opening in which we are introduced to Jack who has a much more clearer background and is more believable as a character than the one shown in the film. One can just look at Jack Nicholson's character in the film and know right off the bat that he looks like a trouble maker and everything he says during the interview is a clear indication that he is in fact already full of evil energy. In the book the character of Jack is painted as a regular-looking guy who is a writer and actually admits that he accidently harmed Danny when he was drunk as in the movie Wendy admits to the doctor that Jack was drunk and harmed Danny. This really made it seem as if Jack wasn't really sorry for what he did as in the book he admitted that he did wrong. The wolf-mask wearing man in the hotel made sense in the book but in the movie this character is wasted and only has about 5 or 10 seconds on screen in this movie. Another thing that separated the film from the novel was how Jack dies in the end. In the end of the book he is blown up in the boiler room as in the movie he freezes to death when chasing Danny in the maze. Also in the book there is no mention of a hedge maze only animal bush-sculptures coming to life to attack Danny when he's outside. Now that I pointed out the differences I will say that the tv-series version of The Shining was really dreadfully attempted even though it does fulfill the version of the novel more accurately. The tv-series is so long and boring, and really drawn out. There's literally very little scares that aren't clichéd or hilariously bad. I could point out all of the scary scenes that aren't even scary but again this review is for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. So Stanley Kubrick's version does offer a lot of great scenery namely the hedge maze when it snows and the Native-themed paintings and flooring. The giant structure of the hotel makes it's viewers' focus search around the entire room with every far away shot of the characters walking in view. Like how Danny rides his back into view of the twin sisters. The viewer knows something bad was going to happen it was just the timing that took us all by surprise. Making it one of the most effective jump scares in this movie. I'll admit from this scene onwards into the movie is where the movie builds excitement and really leaves the audience in the driver's seat. The music is another thing to note that adds to the movie's enjoyment. Overall, it's far from the book version but it really has impacted the fans views over which is better and I have to admit I enjoyed the movie over the book much like films such as Jaws and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. If you're looking for a film that matches the book's perception on what makes the hotel scary you should at least consider watching this movie to compare with the book's version. This movie shows no mercy when it comes to absolutely fill the viewer with it's subliminal messages, ascension into madness, and it's cycle of violence. The film deserves at least an 8 rating because it completely squashed the book's light-hearted version and made it much more scary.