The Shining

Rating: 8/10 (21 August 2009)

The Shining is a very good movie. Its one of the most effectively scary movies I've seen. It is probably not good for kid's under 15 though (mostly for a couple scenes with corpses but largely for the bad parenting illustrated in this film) This movie is probably the best horror of it's decade and arguably Jack Nicholson's most convincing role. He was so scary in this movie. He looked convincingly insane; more and more as the movie progressed. Danny Lloyd's acting as Jack Torrance's son was also very good and was very effective at playing a disturbed little boy. Shelly Duvall was pretty good too as Jack's wife, her acting was just a little too hysterical sometimes. (but she at least did not overdue it on the screaming as some actresses do in horror's). This movie was filmed in a beautiful location. The Hotel was the nicest one I have ever seen. This is the first Stanley Kubrick film I have ever seen and I must say I am very impressed with his directing. The Shining is one of the greatest horror movie I've ever seen. Its a good movie period.