The movie is great. The book is better.

Rating: Null/10 (30 April 1999)

This movie really scares the you-know-what out of me in some scenes. Those two little girls (come and play with us Danny...forever...and ever...and ever) are the scariest creations in a horror film I've ever seen. They still give me the creeps! I also love those real quick shots of Danny in absolute terror as he gets "the shine." Jack Nicholson is really cool in this, but not believable at all. His performance is one of high camp. This was the main point of Stephen King's novel: Jack Torrance was a good and decent man who had a fatal flaw--alcoholism. The evil hotel played on this weakness and so corrupted him. In the movie, we have Jack looking bonkers in the very first scene. It just wasn't a cogent move on Kubrick's part to cast Nicholson in this part. Not to mention Shelly Duvall, who is horrible in this movie.
I have one other gripe. The climax in the book was far superior to that of the movie.