A classic of bloodshed

Rating: Null/10 (26 November 1998)

When I was 5 years old Stanley Kubrick gave me the gift of cinema , This masterpiece of Stephen King-esque gore The Shining.I can still vividly recall the day my mother took me to a Times Square movie theatre for a revival showing of Mary Poppins.On the walk home I saw the title The Shining on a marquis and had to have my mother take me in to see this film,my first horror movie.It was with this movie that I became hooked on the gore and bloodshed being projected onto mammoth screens in my local theatre.Since that time I have seen several other horror films and none of them compare to this classic. Stanley Kubrick has masterfully rewritten this King novel of terror at a desolate hotel into a classic film which can be a hellish version of ,Capra's "Its A wonderful Life"