Kubrick's greatest horror movie of all times. Must see.

Rating: Null/10 (24 August 2002)

Stanley Kubrick is well known in the world because of his masterpieces, movies like 2001 a space odyssey, A clockwork orange or Full Metal Jacket. But those are other movies, yet to be review by me. In this case I chose one of the best horror movies of all times, The Shining. This review will be divided in three parts you will see below.
PLOT: The plot is very Kubrick like. The novel has been written by Stephen King, a master of terror. Jack Torrance moves with his family to an old hotel to the be keeper for the winter. Everything looks perfect, until the father ( Jack ) turns into something like an imaginative alcoholic. The booze brought problems in the past, he hurt Danny (the son) in his shoulder while being drunk. Danny is a very important part of the film, he has supernatural habilities, even an imaginary friend named Tony. That's why he starts seeing strange things in the hotel. Then it all develops in the most scary movie I've ever seen. As you can see, the plot promises to be really freaky. But how does the viewer get scared?. We all know the low budget ( and sometimes high budget films ) with the monster and all the makeup, that doesn't really scare no one. That's why The Shining makes an art of visual effects.
VISUAL EFFECTS: Can you get scared if you see nothing? Depends on the screenplay. In this case, every single sentence is superb, all together make this script into a masterpiece. The creepy monster doesn't appear and we feel the fear in the air. The sutil appearances of the visions and phantoms make this movie better that any othe that spent millons of dollars on make-up. It all seems very natural. Something you will not regret: the pool of blood. That was probably one of teh high moments visual effects in this film. But how can we see the fear? It's in the faces, it's all in the faces.
PERFORMANCES: Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, psycho dad. Shelley Duvall as Winifred, Alias Wendy Torrance. And Danny Lloyd as the boy, the key to the whole drama. You can see in Nicholson's face he's really mad. The psycho part, really good. To express fear, we have Shelley Duvall. Later we would see her in The Portrait of a Lady. I can see in her face that she's really scared, and i trust her expression, because I really got scared. Danny is the mistery. He's boy in this case, and this is one of the few movies he made. But he acts very well. Danny, you have an A, and so does this movie. Peaz, out.