Great horror-movie

Rating: 9/10 (13 November 2000)

This is one of the best horror-movies I have ever seen. Stephen King is a great writer and Stanley Kubrick was one of the greatest directors. Most stories of Stephen King are destroyed by film makers (Sleepwalkers, Tommyknockers), but sometimes they make a masterpiece out of his story (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile). The Shining is another example of a great Stephen King adaptation. Everything is great about it - the directing, Jack Nicholson, the cinematography, the horror - accept one thing. Shelley Duvall is very bad as an actress in this film. I think she was a little annoying in the end, but it didn't disturb me much. The movie was still a great masterpiece.