When you truly loose your mind....

Rating: 10/10 (25 September 2014)

There are some great reviews here so no need for redundancy. Simply put, this is one of the greatest horror films of all time in every way imaginable, the music scores, cinematography, lighting, cast, character development, location, plot, special effects and even the trailer is scary as hell.
Hollywood hasn't had an original thought in decades. All you see in today's films are incredibly attractive people who lack any substance or the ability to act making them hard to sympathize with. A really good movie will put you in the characters shoes. This movie is over 34 years old and still scares the hell out of me. I have watched at least 30 times and can sit through it riveted from start to finish as if I've never seen it before. I don't like to watch it alone.
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The truly scary thing about this movie is the cabin fever effect of it all knowing how people can turn in on each other in a crisis situation. The crisis being that the hotel was haunted as hell and there was no where to go outside of it considering they are trapped on a mountain buried under 25 feet of snow.