The Scariest Movie Ever Made

Rating: Null/10 (27 May 1999)

Forget all these teenybopper slasher films (Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, etc.).."The Shining" is the scariest movie I have ever seen.
Forget the fact that 95% of Stephen King's novels make horrible movies (Maximum Overdrive - need I say more!?), "The Shining" is the scariest movie I have ever seen.
Jack Nicholson MAKES this movie work. If you saw the TV mini-series, you were treated to a much better looking Wendy Torrance and a story line that followed King's excellent novel. But there was no Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, the crazed caretaker of the grand Overlook Hotel.
Stanley Kubrick knew how to make "The Shining" scary and suspenseful without pouring out buckets and buckets of blood and gore (minus a few scenes..the river of blood and the dead girls.)
Overall, Nicholson delivers a stunning performance and one of the greatest lines in movie history. Grade: A