Isolated With Evil

Rating: 9/10 (3 August 2001)

THE SHINING is truly a classic. Granted, the book and the movie differ in many ways but they still stay on track as wonderful horror masterpieces. I read the book and I must say that the book is not as violent or psychotic. For one thing, in the book Jack uses a crochet mallet and abuses Wendy more with it. Also Hedge animals come alive in the book, does not happen in the movie. Still, the movie is great and sometimes scary but mostly it is creepy and twisted. Which undoubtedly makes the movie better. Both the book and the movie give off a horrific thought: What if you were isolated with a growing madness, isolated with an evil that was in the mind of someone you love. What would you do?