the Shining on video is a shocker to terrify and thrill and a requisite title in any fan's video library.

Rating: Null/10 (18 July 2004)

Stephen King's novel The Shining is a classic of modern horror and one of the author's best and scariest works. The film version of the tale may be more a product of Kubrick than King, but it is in its own way a good psychological thriller.
Whereas the novel encompasses far more of the supernatural nature of the Overlook Hotel's ghostly and evil residents, the film instead chooses to see Jack Nicholson's descent into madness as just that rather than largely the product of phantasmal touches. Nicholson's performance is masterful in only the way he can deliver such a role; one might really wonder if he ought to be in a straight jacket at times.
Purists and fans of the novel might resent Kubrick's reinterpretation of King's novel--and the film is indeed the lesser of the two in comparison--yet still the Shining on video is a shocker to terrify and thrill and a requisite title in any fan's video library.