One of the best "horrors" ever made

Rating: 10/10 (3 October 2005)

"Shining" is another masterpiece in Stanley Kubrick's filmography. As usual, the director gets in touch with a new genre -this time it's Horror-Thriller (even if "Shining" is more a thriller than a horror movie).
The film is based on the book of Stepehen King. A writer is offered to do the caretaker (during the winter season) in a big hotel in the mountains. The man carries with him his wife and their young boy. The hotel is a mysterious place, where something terrible happened in the past... The writer becomes more and more lunatic...
The film still scares 25 years after its release. Shots and cinematography are lavish -this is also one of the first features in which Steadicam is used. See the tricycle scene. It's useless to say that Jack Nicholson's performance is wonderful -his way of playing "Joker" in "Batman" (1989), in certain ways, seems a parody of this role...
The DVD edition contains also an interesting documentary (directed by Kubrick's daughter) about the shooting of this film. I suggest to see it too.