Classic, but not for the Oscars!

Rating: 8/10 (10 October 2009)

I've read the book and so I've seen the film - some similarities and I won't reveal any details to ruin the viewer's enjoyment. I don't think it's the best adaptation from a Stephen King novel, Carrie is a great work as is Misery but as a film in itself, it's hauntingly effective - silence and space are the key elements Kubrick used here to developing the enshrining tension and inevitable horror the hotel beholds! You can see how 2001 A Space Odyssey not only initialised these elements of audio and visual technique but how they were used to great effect here. I'll never understand why the panel of the Academy Awards avoid it though? Jack Nicholson has been nominated so often for perfect performances on film, yet this is another performance that went unrewarded. Correct me if I'm wrong!