A Thriller/Horror Masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (10 June 2005)

The Shining is one of Kubrick's most renowned and beloved films, along with his other classics "Full Metal Jacket" and "2001". This film takes the best elements of fear, psychological, horror, adrenaline, and pure insanity to keep you pumped from start to finish. The story of a couple and their young child, after experiencing a move to a strange locale and it's ghostly inhabitants, seems simple and clichéd at first, but the movie takes a serious turn as the one you would always expect to protect you, turn out to have a burning desire to mutilate you with an ax. Some classic horror scenes such as the "Grady Twins" and the unforgettable "Here's Johnny!" Have spawned a thousands rip-offs and a massive following to this films unsurpassed quality, truly a gem if there was any in the exhausted horror genre. The basic story can be summed up in a few sentences. A family moves into a hotel. A horrible murder occurred there. The hotel has a mind of it's own. A ability called "Shining" enters the scene. The husband grows more and more "weird & unstable". Family becomes worried. Strange events occur. Pappy tries to murder family with ax. The End