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Jack Nicholson
Shelley Duvall
Danny Lloyd
Scatman Crothers
Barry Nelson
Philip Stone

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A man and his family head to a isolated hotel to "house sit." As the loneliness sets in, the husband begins to go insane, while the boy sees things that no one else can..

03/06/2013 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

"The Shining"

The scariest moments in ‘The Shining’ are so iconic they’ve become in-jokes: Jack Nicholson leering psychotically from posters on the walls of student bedrooms everywhere... ‘Here’s Johnny’. Even so, Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece of execution and claustrophobia still retains the power to frighten audiences out of their wits. Nicholson is Jack Torrance, a writer working as a caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in the Colorado mountains over winter. Stephen King, on whose novel the film was based, was famously unimpressed. The problem, he said, was that ghost-sceptic Kubrick was ‘a man who thinks too much and feels too little’. He resented Kubrick for stripping out the supernatural elements of his story. Torrance is not tortured by ghosts but by inadequacy and alcoholism. And for many,...

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02/26/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

"The Shining" by Yojimbo

A writer and his family move in as caretakers to a secluded mountainside hotel for the winter, but a presence inhabiting it causes his mental disintegration leading to the urge for bloody murder. I'm not a fan of Stephen King. In fact, I'd go as far as to describe him as "a bag of cock". But what Kubrick did was to strip away the hokey nonsense of King's original novel, and create a masterclass in haunting imagery and suspense. In fact, the supernatural elements of the story are almost irrelevant. The horror lies in the subtext of domestic violence; it's difficult to see a plaid wearing, balding middle-aged man as a terrifying monster, and Nicholson is hardly the most physically formidable presence. But in the classic scene in which he finally snaps, it is easy to see why waif-like Shelly...

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06/14/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Good movie, Great book

I was a huge fan of this book and was relieved to find that this great and terrifying story by Stephen King was not ruined by mundane and mediocre acting as is the case in most of his films. Overall the movie is great, you really see how insane Jack Nicholson is becoming being trapped in the Overlook for the winter. How at first he is content, then contention turns to boredom, boredom turns to apathy, then apathy turning to insanity slowly and surely. I do have a few qualms however, Kubric put his own spin on a lot of things that were better left alone. King is a master of horror and i dont understand why things were changed, for instance, Danny's second sight or pre-cognition does not come through in the film very well. Good movie better book.

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