Before it, I hated horror films. Now, it's my favorite movie.

Rating: 10/10 (22 July 2013)

Until I saw this movie, I used to hate all kind of horror movies. To me, they were boring and on most cases, they didn't have a strong argument or main problem. But when I saw this movie, the horror genre was born and die to me the same day. In just a few shots and images, Stanley Kubrick terrified me like I had never been in my whole life. Without being either grotesque or too "bloody", Kubrick scared the hell out of me just with zoom-in's and two or three recurring horrifying shots. The images, the colors and the perspective of the movie are one of a kind, and Stanley Kubrick managed to make a terror movie and still make it beautiful to the eyes! Jack Nicholson suffers from a magnificent transformation all along the movie, and he's so brilliant that it comes a point in the movie that you don't think he's an actor anymore. Danny (the little kid) made an excellent performance, he was only 6 years old! Since the day I saw my first Stanley Kubrick's film, I'm a huge, huge fan of him. But this movie blew my mind, and it became my favorite movie, even though I hated horror films. What does it say that about Stanley Kubrick's film?