Be seduced by The Shining

Rating: Null/10 (8 July 2000)

Stanley Kubrick wants to seduce you. He wants you to get real close, drop your defenses, so he can SCARE THE LIVING HELL OUT OF YOU!
That's what Shining does so well. It seduces you. If you let it, it will envelope you in pure psychological terror. Some have missed this point, and instead have been caught up with technical flaws (it wasn't faithful to the novel, the acting was overdone, cliched, or just awful, etc) These people were not willing to be seduced by Kubrick's vision.
Put aside your rational mind. Be seduced by the dark side of The Shining.
The Shining is first and foremost cinematic art. If you look too closely at individual details, you will see flaws. But like a work of great abstract art, the beauty isn't in the details, it's in the entire picture. In The Shining, the moments of Kubrick genius far outshine (forgive me :) the minor flaws.
*Warning* The following paragraph contains a spoiler from one scene in the movie.
Everyone seems to have their favorite moment of terror. For me, it was when the young boy turns the corner in his Big Wheel and runs right into the twin girls standing in the hallway. They look so solemn. They start chanting "Come and play with us Danny...." then the screen flashes with scenes of these girls lying in that same hallway, "forever....", you see the axe, "and ever...." blood is splattered on the walls, "and ever...." and parts of their dismembered bodies lay on the floor.
**SHUDDER**!!!