A sad tragic horror movie

Rating: 9/10 (19 April 2020)

This movie was so good I even looked up what hotel the Overlook hotel was based on in real life. There are many scarier horror films than The Shining but The Shining is nonetheless my 2nd favourite horror movie of all time.
Terrific acting with a complex interesting plot and some nice twists such as Grady's ghost and the picture at the end etc make for a brilliant classic movie.
No characters were extraordinary interesting, but there were no dull characters either. Jack and Grady were genuinely great characters, they were the most interesting characters. But like a lot of films set in the real world it fails to have characters that are truly unique from the people on Earth. What makes the characters so great to watch in this movie is the circumstances they're in, not so much the characters themselves. If you took away the story and it was just Jack and his family on a car journey it would be probably be difficult to keep watching.

Off the top of my head I can't think of any boring scenes the movie had. There was a certain car scene though that could've been much more entertaining. There's a lot more emotion in many other films compared to this film, but The Shining has a good level of emotion in it like the final bit when Jack went mad and went after his wife and son and also when Jack goes to the bar craving for alcohol.
The fact the Overlook hotel is based on a hotel in real life makes the film even more intriguing and the film is very tragic in the sense that Jack was a good person who loved his wife and son but was desperately trying to stop being an alcoholic, he used the hotel in the middle of nowhere which had no alcohol in it obviously as a great strategy to overcome his alcoholism but in the end the hotel was more deadly and harmful than his alcoholism which made the film so tragically emotional and because I'm an alcoholic I relate a lot to Jack's character which makes it seem what happened to Jack could of happened to me.