Iconic horror film, one of the all-time greats.

Rating: 10/10 (16 March 2015)

Another viewing of Stanley Kubrick's 'The shining'. The iconic scenes and acting will probably never lose their creepy 'charm'. I recently found out that Stephen King wasn't too happy about the lack of character development for Jack Torrance (he's pretty much crazy from the get-go), which is why King later directed his own interpretation. I never read the book, and I remember little of his version, but this film is more than fulfilling on its own - I didn't miss character development that much.
Iconic images (and sounds), that is what 'The shining' has to offer. The carpet riding, the elevator blood flood, the labyrinth hunt, Jack Nicholson's intense craziness, and so on and so forth. The film is a claustrophobic experience from beginning to end, in which Kubrick excels as the creator of an otherworldly place which before and after has seldomly been equaled. Seeing is believing.
10 out of 10.