A truly scary movie with Kubrick's magic touch

Rating: 10/10 (4 July 2000)

"The Shining" is a strange movie. There are many disturbing scenes and characters, but it is a great movie. It is set at the Overlook Hotel deep somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, and it has absolutely no winter guests or employees, except for the winter caretaker and their family. Jack Torrance applies for the job with his wife, Wendy (Shelly Long) and son, because he is working on a novel and needs six months of peace and quiet to get it done. Right before he accepts the the job though, the hotel owner tells him of the caretaker a few years before that went crazy and murdered his wife and daughters with an axe, then put both barrels of a shotgun in his mouth. When they move in for the winter, strange things start happening that only the little boy can see. The movie escalates into all-out insanity, with blood pouring out of elevators and a being in a bear suit having sex with a man. Kubrick conjured up some truly disturbing pictures with the help of the original book, to make this classic horror masterpiece.