Stanley tries another genre with a successful outcome

Rating: 9/10 (17 September 2000)

What do we most fear? Is it aliens doing experiments on us? Is it the thought of a monster tearing us to shreds or perhaps a war of global proportions? I think maybe it might be the terror of being stalked and killed by the one thing we could never imagine; our father. The one person who nurtures us and brings us up to do good and live in a moralistic tradition. All rules are broken for Stanley Kubrick's haunting rendition of the Stephen King novel.
Jack Nicholson plays Jack Torrence, a teacher who is a wanna be writer hoping to make it as a successful novelist. Jack jumps on the opportunity to grab the caretaker job that is available at the Overlook Hotel. He slowly decends into madness as the Overlooks possessed frame draws him in to do evil and claim more souls for the old hotel.
Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers and Patrick MaGee give stand out performances in this Kubrick horror film. The photography and dead pan acting approach brings out a dryness and simple horror finesse to the screen that seems to be unmatched. A must see.