"all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"

Rating: 10/10 (29 March 2006)

This 1980 Kubrik masterpiece is without any doubt the scariest film of all time. Even scarier than The Exorcist. The paranoia-driven, psycho thriller unfolds as something so real you can feel it, something so human -- succumbing before a mental devolve triggered by haunting images of an animalistic massacre. The scenes of Nicholsons crash to his unvisited, deep recesses of mind, and of course the immortal graphic tidal wave of blood rushing from the elevator were instant classic cerebral macabre. A complete diversion off the usual horror sequences my generation grew up with, The Shining instead carved in film history the whole meaning of horror, ever present in each person snapping out of sanity.