The best horror film ever made

Rating: Null/10 (2 July 1999)

Take a hotel with a gruesome past. Add a well-meaning caretaker there to spend a nice winter with his wife and child, and mix in a masterful filmmaker and a superb story teller (Kubrick and King), and you've got Stanley Kubrick's 1980 classic horror film, The Shining.
While Kubrick's movie does not faithfully parallel the book (fans of King's novel may be disappointed), the film takes on a style of it's own, creating some of the most disturbing and horrifying images ever to be captured by a camera (murdered girls in the hallway, elevator full of blood, all work and no play makes jack a dull boy, etc).
The Shining is yet another bright spot in Kubrick's stellar career. The Maze scenes are especially spectacular as well as the flowing hallway shots. Jack Nicholson leads a perfect cast that includes Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, and Scatman Crothers. See this movie, it's absolutely brilliant; don't let anyone tell you differently.