The Shining Review

Rating: 8/10 (7 November 2017)

The Shining is one of my favourite horror/thriller movies. I love how Kubrick uses small "easter eggs" to capture the audiences attention and get them talking. These "easter eggs" make for a parallel story line. In the movie they mention briefly that the hotel is built on an ancient native burial ground. This burial ground would be from the native American genocide. Throughout the movie there are small hints to allude that the ancient Native Americans are haunting the hotel. In this hotel there are many native prints and mosaics. *SPOILER*Even Holloraan, the hotel chef, is murdered by Jack on a native mosaic on the floor of the hotel. This movie, to me, is such a classic. If you watch any horror movies made after the shining you can tell they all have taken ideas from Kubrick. The suspenseful scenes and screeching background music is used in almost all horror movies that were made after The Shining. For that reason I think The Shining is a classic horror movie.