Be ready to be scared to death and back

Rating: 10/10 (12 September 2006)

*SPOILERS At the Overlook Hotel*
Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) is a writer who cannot seem to be able to write anymore accepts the job of caretaker at the Overlook Hotel; but he doesn't know that the hotel is haunted, and for Jack's wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall at her ugliest) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd), it's going to be a nightmare brought to life...
Stephen King doesn't like this movie because it strays a lot from the source material, his book (which I have bought but not yet read), but as a horror film, it works on every single level, ESPECIALLY the acting; who can forget Jack Nicholson's faces, or his 'Heere's Johnny!' (or in my case, having seen the Italian version first, 'Sono il Lupo Cattivo!' ('I am the Big Bad Wolf!') with great voice acting by the amazing Giancarlo Giannini).
The DVD edition only amplifies the feeling of terror you get from this movie; the only problem I have with that is that the movie's the North American Version, and since Kubrick had personally insisted that the sentence Jack repeated over and over on paper was translated using a proverb in each language (in Italian, it's 'Il Mattino Ha L'Oro In Bocca' ('Early Morning Has Gold In Its Mouth')), this kind of feels like a rape of this masterpiece.
The Shining: 10/10.
The Shining Italian VHS: 10/10
The Shining Italian DVD: 9/10.