Very Scary for Its Time

Rating: Null/10 (24 September 2015)

One of the greatest actors of all time, Jack Nicholson, shows what happens when he commits himself to all work and no play as he attempts to finish his novel.
The scariest thing about this movie is how vulnerable his own family is to his descent into madness, as a blizzard whirls around their location in an empty lodge in the middle of nowhere with ghosts abounding.
As the brilliant director, Alfred Hitchcock showed us in his movie "Psycho," the most bone-chilling horror can be imparted through subtle psychological means (the shower curtain, the bloody water circling the bathtub drain). And so it is with The Shining: A long, winding icy road up to the far-away lodge; 500 typed pages that all say "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy;" an endless labyrinth of hedges. Don't worry, there are horror, blood and gore aplenty for the rabid fan.
A classic.