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The Shining is a 1980 horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick which is based a Stephen King novel of the same name. It stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall and Danny Lloyd.
Jack Torrence (Nicholson) is a writer who accepts the job as a caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, which always gets snowed in during the winter, and so becomes completely isolated. He is warned that the last caretaker got cabin fever and killed his family and himself, but Jack just wants some peace and quiet in order to write. So he takes his wife Wendy (Duvall) and his son Danny (Lloyd) up to the hotel on the closing day, where they meet the elderly cook, Dick Halloran (Scatman Crothers). He surprises Danny by talking with him telepathically and asking him if he wants an ice cream. When alone, he explains that he and his grandmother shared this incredible gift, which is called 'shining' because the pictures that they sent each other seemed to glow.
But things don't go as planned. Danny sees visions of the previous caretaker's kids, Jack is also seeing ghosts, and Wendy is concerned for her son's wellbeing. It all comes to a head when Wendy locks Jack in a storage locker as he was acting crazy, but Jack won't be taken out so easily...
If you haven't seen this film, you've must've at least heard of it, and I have to say it deserves the adulation it receives. The acting is superb, Shelley Duvall is about as hysterical and terrified as anyone I've seen in a film, and Jack Nicholson can do crazy like no-one else. To see him descend into madness is very interesting, and must've been a very hard thing to convey to the screen, but he pulls it off brilliantly.
The music is very minimal, rather like "The Thing", which is good as it really draws you into the film. The beginning of the film has some of the creepiest music I have ever heard and really is an indicator of what's to come. And as most of the shots never feature more than three people, the film has a very lonely and isolated feel, which is what it needed really; it needed the audience to feel as isolated as the characters do in order for them to believe what is happening to Jack and his family. Combine these two factors together with a great script that is full of scary moments and you have one of the best psychological horrors ever made.
I have to say, the final shot I've never understood. I guess you could apply that to the whole film really, you can't really trust what the characters experience because they're all in various degrees of psychological and psychic trauma. Perhaps a lot of what we saw didn't really happen, which is even more terrifying.
Overall a chilling movie with a creepy tone throughout, five stars!
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Production Year: 1980 - Horror - Director: Paul Lynch - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen, Casey Stevens, Anne-Marie Martin, Antoinette Bower
Production Year: 2000 - Horror - Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Carmen Electra, Anna Faris, Kurt Fuller, James Van Der Beek, Keenen Ivory Wayans
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