"The tide of terror that swept the nation..."

Rating: 9/10 (29 October 2012)

THE SHINING, a movie that contained the scene that everyone is familiar with;Jack Nicholson chopping down the door as Wendy screams in sheer terror and defiance, he then utters the words "here's Johnny". A movie that changed the landscape of horror and fear, something beyond modern day horror, Kubrick knew what he was doing with this masterpiece as it presented horrifying, riveting, and over the top symbolism and diction of moral themes such as racism, ghost, death, psychology, and characters losing whats in a humans pure sense of mind. Wendy and Jack are put through hell in this movie and the acting given by Shelley and jack to display pure madness is done with perfection. The acting is amazing;this movie is extremely psychotic; its horrific and terrifying; this movie had no jump scenes yet it succeeded to present a creep hellish atmosphere. In my opinion this is the best horror movie of all time alongside Halloween (1978) its true state of the art horror at its best. For those youngsters or new generation horror fans take time away from paranormal activity, hatchet, those shitty remakes (not the good remakes) and watch this it could never be remade its horror at its best, its "the tide of terror that swept the nation"...