"Here's Johnny!"

Rating: Null/10 (8 November 2004)

Once again we get bombarded with the late Stanley Kubrick's eccentric approach to style over substance in this overlong but undeniably scary adaptation of the Stephen King novel about a man driven mad at an isolated resort, thus becoming a danger both to himself and to his wife and child.
Jack gleefully goes over the top and offers us one of his trademark moments - the ad libbed "Here's Johnny!" while Shelly Duvall does what she can with the freaked out wife character and the little boy playing Danny is just annoying.
As was usually the case with Kubrick's films, "The Shining" values style over substance. Even though the film is genuinely very scary, it lacks any real, concrete emotional weight. It once made a very funny parody on "The Simpsons" though.
Remade as a TV miniseries in 1997.