Excellent, simply excellent !

Rating: 9/10 (26 February 2007)

I will admit that only two horror movies has ever given me severe scares; The Ring, and this one right here.
Kubrick does an amazing job on this movie; the photography is superb, the location is perfectly picked, and the ambiance will give grown men the heebie-jeebiez !
Already during the opening scene, beautifully filmed and sporting a very creeping sinister background music, you get the sneaking feeling that something is not right. And it is not !
A family of three is going to spend a serious amount of time at an isolated mountain resort hotel, as the husband of the family (Nicholson) works as a caretaker.
It soon becomes clear that something is not right at the hotel, and the family soon notice some very chilling changes in their environment.
That's all I'll reveal !
I highly recommend you see this movie ! If you don't, you will miss out on your basic horror- movie-education ! Don't show it to your kids; they'll never fall asleep again, and probably you will have some trouble too...
Honestly, this movie scared the living daylights out of me, so if you haven't seen this one yet, you know what to do tonight !