Probably the best Stephen King film

Rating: 10/10 (24 February 2008)

Where to begin... This movie was 100% perfect. The actors, storyline, atmosphere, everything. Jack Nicholson gives what I believe is one of his best performances here as Jack Torrence, the estranged, alienated father of the Torrence family. Shelly Duvall gives another great performance here as Weny Torrence, Jack's stressed out wife and Danny's mother. I often wonder how her character was able to take so much mental abuse throughout the film but she somehow managed to. The scares in this movie were many and great. They made you not want to go to a fancy hotel for a while after watching this movie. This film felt like The Thing in parts, people trapped in a vast alienated place trapped in by snow and extreme weather, but at the same time was different because of the haunting. Some scenes were shocking, others very disturbing, all of them 100% eerie. This film is a classic and always will be. Horror fans should check this out if they have not already. 10/10.