EXCELLENT

Rating: Null/10 (18 October 2001)

The Shining is probably one of the few decent horror movies out there. It has horror, suspense, great acting, and outstanding directing by Stanley Kubrick. I admit, this movie was pretty slow at times, but aren't most movies? Some scenes were sort of disturbing ( SPOILERS ) like the 2 little girls chopped up in the hallway, and the part where Hallorann ( Scatman Cruthers ) gets an ax driven into his chest. Stuff like that. But one thing about this movie is it didn't follow the book in some ways. The writers thought up ideas of their own, which helped the movie alot. It still would've been cool if they had added some scenes that involved the playground, like Steven King wrote about in the book. That would've been good also. Well anyways, this movie is very good, and i recommend this to anyone. 9/10