Bizarre and frightening horror.

Rating: 8/10 (9 January 2000)

If you've never seen a Stanley Kubrick film, this movie will not make sense to you. If you have seen a Kubrick film, this movie will not make sense to you. Standard Kubrick fare, yet The Shining stands alone in the bizarre/frightening horror category, if there is such a thing. Jack Nicholson gives yet another parody of Jack Nicholson throughout The Shining, and that is probably what gives the movie any cohesion at all. If it sounds like I didn't like the movie, that is not my point. My point is simply this - if you like weird horror movies, and I do, then you will like The Shining.