The Vidiot Reviews

Rating: 8/10 (27 September 2013)

The Shining
The best thing about an empty resort is you can combine the tiny shampoo into one normal sized bottle.
However, personal hygiene isn't on the mind of the crazed writer in this psychological thriller.
Hired to maintain the Overlook Hotel during the winter, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) moves his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and his mentally gifted son Danny (Danny Lloyd) into the servants' quarters.
While he tries to write, Wendy runs maintenance checks, and Danny rides his big wheel past ghostly twin sisters, a hemorrhaging elevator, and the forbidding room 237.
Downstairs, Danny's dad - spurned on by an evil bartender - decides to murder his family with an axe.
Based on Stephen King's book, director Stanley Kubrik transforms the novel's intuitive narrative into a subversive and superbly shot shocker.
Malicious ghosts aside, what would drive most people crazy, would be abstaining from the mini bar for 5 months.
Green Light
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