The only movie that has ever made me feel real fear

Rating: 10/10 (14 February 2000)

"The Shining" is one of those rare artworks which dig deep in the human mind and reach the ancient core of the struggle for life. Stanley Kubrick's outstanding work creates a dark and stressing ambient which makes the story the most horrendous adventure a human being can live.
This is a masterpiece of the Seventh Art. Excellent acting, a perfect ambientation, a shuddering screenplay which makes you hide in the farthest corner of your soul... simply the best horror film ever made. But the horror featured in this film is not the classic "sudden stimulus" resource, but a kind more violent which deals with the supernatural and the true sense of madness.
Watching "The Shining" is undertaking the responsibility of a journey to the center of the abyss of loneliness, a pact between schizophrenia and the evil of a place that lives in the killing, and that's why this movie is a really hideous experience.
Don't watch it alone.