Stanley Kubrick's The Shining

Rating: Null/10 (10 January 2003)

A masterpiece of the Horror genre. I love this film.
Jack Nicholson stars as Jack Torrance, a writer who is applying for a job in the Colorado mountains and caretaking for th isolated, Overlook Hotel. He hears from the Hotel's manager that the caretaker of 1970 killed his wife and two little girls with an axe and then shot himself with a shotgun. Jack brings his wife Wendy and his son Danny with him. Danny has a psychic connection with the hotel's cook Dick Hallorann. Hallorann warns Danny about the hotel's past and tells him to stay out of Room 237. ONE MONTH LATER, Danny is having weird visions in his mind. Blood pouring out of an elevator. Two little girls stalking him. The mysterious word "redrum" on a door. Jack is having some weird experiences of his own. A ghost bartender has been selling him drinks for cash. Jack runs into the previous caretaker! He tells Jack to handle his family the same way that he handled his. Meanwhile, Danny tells Wendy that there was a crazy woman in the hotel. Wendy plans to leave the hotel on the snowmobile while Danny tries to contact Hallorann for help.
Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, and Philip Stone star. Rating: 3 1/2 out of 4