A great, scary, influential MOVIE

Rating: Null/10 (25 January 2001)

One comment about this film that always seems to strike a bad chord in me is when it is called a bad film just because it is not like the book. I'm not sure how many people have ever read the novel, Psycho, but I can assure anyone that it is very different from the book. Does that make Psycho a bad movie? Not by any means.
Now, I'll admit that I never read the Shining...nor am I sure if I will eventually get around to reading it. I'll tell you something about the movie, though: It scares me every time I watch it.
Much like the original Haunting it's one of those types of movies that are eerie the entire way through and never give you a chance to scream. It has surreal moments where you feel like you're in one of those bad dreams that you can't wake up from. That's why it's one of the scariest (if not the scariest) movies of all time.
And personally I don't care if the book is one of the greatest novels ever written. The movie is still scary.