I know I'm gonna get flak for this, but here goes.....

Rating: 3/10 (10 October 2019)

The Shining is, to me, the most overrated and boring horror film I have ever seen. I live for horror, but this movie just does not do it for me. However (potential spoilers ahead)....
Why the three rating? Well, there are moments throughout where some potential shines through. The sequence where Danny meets up with the ghosts of the two girls has a suitably creepy feel to it. It's an effective scene when Jack goes into the room and meets the ghost that comes out of the bathtub. Every once in a while there's a vision of Danny's that promises chills. And the last twenty minutes of the film? A decent payoff.
Unfortunately, the payoff comes after a series of extremely long, extremely boring scene that have the pace of a glacier. All the other good scenes before the payoff have long sequences that just seem to go nowhere between them. I hate movies with this kind of pace. There are some half decent performances (Nicholson, Crothers), an abyssmal one (Duvall, although from reading what went on behind the scenes it's passable), and one stand out (Lloyd's).
I just can't recommend this film. It may be a classic, but not everyone likes every classic. I don't begrudge anyone who enjoys the film (as I already wrote, there are some chilling sequences). but this one just is a waste of time to me.