The Shining looks like no other horror film. Kubrick’s only foray into the horror genre may feel safe and familiar at first, its iconic scenes blunted by a thousand parodies and college-dorm posters, but its unsettling qualities quickly become apparent. Jack Nicholson’s Torrance is a mean drunk with a short temper – but is the hotel exerting a malign influence over him, or is his potential for evil there from the outset? Director Stanley Kubrick transforms Stephen King’s haunted-house yarn into a study in ambiguity. But his son Danny is haunted by disturbing visions, and the hotel’s old ghosts worry away at the author’s unravelling sanity. The Torrance family take up residence in a remote hotel for the off-season, with dad Jack hoping the isolation will shift his writer’s block.
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