A masterpiece at that time, an ordinary movie at the moment

Rating: 2/10 (9 February 2008)

A masterpiece at that time, an ordinary movie at the moment. I liked the movie. A very good horror-thriller. It isn't scary and it is boring sometimes, but that's the way it had to be for those times. A lot of movies that were made after this one (till these days) are much better, but we have to keep in mind that those times were different than nowadays. People had a different manner of thinking; the conception, the ideology and especially the prejudice were different... were much stronger than today. So that's why horror-thriller movies like Hitchcock's or Stephen king's are considered somehow masterpieces. Because those movies gave the start (and many ideas) for the following of this genre. Those movies were somehow "pioneers" for the genre (especially for psychological horror-thriller genre). So... "The Shining" is a good movie. Watch it if you like the genre.