Scaring Without A Ghost

Rating: 9/10 (18 July 2019)

The moment the movie opens something eerie sets in. Nothing is shown or said, yet you just don't feel right. The movie sets its tone in the opening sequence already.
Jack Nicholson, takes the job of a caretaker of an isolated hotel for 5 months with his wife and young son. He is an aspiring writer and hopes to use this time to create art. The hotel remains closed all this time.
The movie has long shots of the corridors, the hallways or the rooms. It is shot in a way, that it haunts you. You keep feeling uncanny, though technically there is no ghosts or gory scenes. In fact the movie hardly has much violence.
Jack Nicholson as the crazy husband , the little kid and the scared wife makes you feel uneasy each time they appear on screen. The huge spaces in the hotel itself scares you as the background music hums along.
It will scare you long after it is over. One of the finest movies of all times. A must watch.