Hello to you. I love films so I joined this site to offer some advice on some DVD's. I hope I help w...
Hello to you. I love films so I joined this site to offer some advice on some DVD's. I hope I help with some people's decissions. Yey for horror films!!
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PLOT ________________________________
Jack Torrance has secured a winter job as care-taker at the Overlook hotel. Accompanied by his wife, Wendy and son, Danny, he settles himself in for the winter, a time to get some of his writing done. Tormented by the evil spirits of the place, Jack becomes mad and turns against his family. He wants to kill them.
His son has a gift. The Shining is a telepathic power that enables him to call for help in the form of the hotel’s chef who also possesses this amazing power. Can he save the family?
SPECIAL FEATURES _______________________________
-Behind the scenes with Vivian Kubrick -Trailer
PACKAGING _________________________________
Another one of those annoying card boxes with a black plastic clip. Front has the picture of Jack Nicholson sticking his face through the bathroom door (Here's Johnny!) and back has pics and synopsis. Inside is a rather unflattering picture of Shelly Duvall (Wendy) and a list of scenes.
COMMENTS _______________________________
A great film from legendary director Stanley Kubrick who brought us such classics as 2001: A Space Oddysey and A Clockwork Orange. This film is his best as far as I'm concerned and the best film by far from the early eighties (1980).
The book is crap. Stephen King is crap but this film is a masterpiece. it's so tense you'll wet yourself and the performance from Jack Nicholson is awesome- you actually believe he's a madman (well, he doesn't need to act that much). It's just so eerie, his conversations with ghosts are great and the "here's Johnny" line will make you scream and smile at the same time.
Having praised the film so much, it has to be said that you'll either love it or you'll hate it. If you like action-packed thrillers then you should jolly well stay away. This plays with your mind, not your senses (although some of the sounds are great).
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Stanley Kubrick'sThe Shiningis less an adaptation of Stephen King's best-selling horror ... more
novel than a complete re-imagining of it from the inside out. In King's book, the Overlook Hotel is a haunted place that takes possession of its off-season caretake...
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Recovering alcoholic Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) gets a job as caretaker at the ... more
deserted Overlook Hotel during the winter. He takes up residence with his wife, Wendy, and son, Danny, who experiences clairvoyant forebodings. As the bleak isolation of...
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as in this harrowing masterpiece from Stanley Kubrick is it fear of murder by someone who should love and protect you - a member of your own family? From a sc...
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Advantages: brilliant thriller keeps you gripped till the very end, can watch anytime of the day Disadvantages: to be honest i found that there was no disadvantages as this film really amazed me and still does each time
TinyTInk 15.05.2006 ·
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Review of The Shining (DVD)
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Feb 19th, 2004
(Feb 22nd, 2004)
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