To my recollection I was never so scared after watching a movie than I was after watching The Shining.

Rating: 8/10 (13 January 2000)

I believe that this is my favorite movie directed by the late Stanley Kubrick. Apparently Stephen King was not happy about what Kubrick had done with the movie because there was a second movie done, by King. I did not have the chance to watch the second one.	To my recollection I was never so scared after watching a movie than I was after watching The Shining. It scared me to death then and it still has the same effect on me now. Every time I watched a scaring movie, my mother would just say: "this is just a movie!" I kept that in mind, but when "Danny Torrance " Danny Lloyd (Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy) was riding his tricycle, and I saw the pattern of the carpet, I knew that he was on the third floor where he was not supposed to go. I knew the two girls would appear, that was shivering. Those movies about reincarnation, madness, pictures on the wall from decades ago with the same faces of people that are now alive, make my hands cold. I get so frightened!!!	I tend to love comedy, and horror movies are very far from that, but this movie is a classic. It is not gory and has the psychological impact in a very Hitchcock style, where the audience knows what is going to happen before the character does. It makes a movie very eerie, because somehow, although we know it is a movie, we all scream trying to give notice to the character that he or she is in real danger. I recommend this movie because it is a horror movie indeed. That maze where "Jack Torrance" Jack Nicholson (As Good as it Gets) finally dies, is frightening. Danny was so good figuring out how to get back. Scary!!!! The music by Béla Bartók, Hector Berlioz, György Ligeti, that modernism and dissonance gives the movie even more realism.	My favorite scenes: When they are driving up to the hotel. Danny meeting "Dick Hallorann" Scatman Crothers(Roots) and they both have the shining. Plainly speaking just telepathy! When Dick comes to rescue "Wendy Torrance" Shelley Duvall (The Portrait of a Lady).	Most memorable scene: When Jack is getting to the bathroom door and goes: "Here is Johnny."	Favorite quotes: Mr. Halloran: "Some places are like people: some shine and some don't." Danny: "Redrum! Redrum! Redrum!" Jack typing "All work and no play make Jack a dull boy..."