Stunning

Rating: 9/10 (26 July 2008)

In general, i don't particularly like horror movies, they are cheesy, dumb and make it extroadinarily gory to make up for the awful acting and dreadful directing. However this on the other hand, is something special, it really shines through. I saw Stanley Kubrick on the cover so i thought it's got to be worth a watch. I'm so glad i did, it is in my top ten list of greatest movies for it's sheer brilliance. It center's around a family consisting of a writer named Jack Torrence (played by the fantastic Jack Nicholson), his wife named Wendy Torrence and their son Danny Torrence. Their job is just to look after the hotel during the winter season. Jack Torrence, a struggling writer seems to be getting more insane as the days go by from either writers block or it could be something in the house doing it. That's the eary feeling your left with at the end, there is evidence to support the hotel doing it but also evidence to support it was of his own decent. Stanley Kubrick really couldn't be more of a genius with a camera, i mean just the unnerving shot of the camera following the children just a foot behind so when he turns each corner you don't know whats coming next and in one particular scene, whats next sends a chill down my back. Just a brilliantly crafted movie, Jack Nicholson is sublime in it, but credit goes to the location, the huge rooms give an eary feeling of not knowing whats in their and that anything could be behind those huge pillars. The humongous maze outside gives a cat and mouse feel to it during the chase and the fear that the next turn could be a dead end for Danny. Ingenious, loved it 10/10