My Review

Rating: 10/10 (4 August 2008)

The Torrance family...Jack (Jack Nicholson), Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and their young son Danny (Danny Lloyd) go to take care of the Overlook Motel during the winter months when its closed.
As soon as everyone else leaves, Jack starts slowly descending into madness, and Danny starts seeing visions of dead twins. Danny also has an ability called "the shining" by cook Hallorann (Scatman Crothers), who also has the ability, which allows them to communicate without speaking.
As Jack delves into madness, he starts to hate his family, and soon leads him to try and kill them.
Based on a Stephen King novel and directed by one of the world's best directors (Stanley Kubrick), "The Shining" is listed as one of the best horror movies ever made, with good reason. The movie freaks you out! From Kubrick's stunning directing to the camera (how it shows the characters in the background, making the hotel look like one large evil place), to the music, to the sounds (like when Danny is riding on his little bike through the motel, hearing it run across the wooden floors, tiles, and carpet), everything about this film is just spectacular. And no surprise since it came from perpetual perfectionist Kubrick.