4/5

Rating: Null/10 (2 January 2004)

This movie near perfectly adapts the Stephen King novel of the same name. Jack Nicholson is in a signature role (Heh heh, I got that off the back of the DVD!) as John/Jack Torrance, a once succesful writer now struggling to get on track after battling alchoholism. He and his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd) are looking after a motel called The Overlook during the winter. Over a period of a few months, they are apparently haunted by apparitions and ghosts, and Jack Torrence eventually becomes increasingly insane while his son Danny senses things his parents can't with his Shining, a psychic gift.
A creepy movie, you will have to watch carefully to fully interpret it's story, and when you do everything suddenly makes sense!