The Best Horror Film Ever Made

Rating: Null/10 (8 August 1999)

I was watching this film again last night and I cant believe how it manages to scare me every time I watch.
I am a Fan of many Horror films but all of them seem to lose there impact on me after a few viewings and although I still enjoy to watch them again and again they don't scare me like this one does.
The scariest moments in the film involve the character of Danny like when he encounters the two girls in the hallway, the way the sequence is edited to flash the images up on the screen is almost sublimable and those moments in the film when Danny's own face is quickly flashed on the screen with his eyes wide open staring at the camera gives me a chill every time. Another thing i noticed last night was during the scene when Jack has just been to see the woman in the Bathroom and is talking to his wife in the bedroom about Danny the conversation soon turns into an argument and Jack goes storming out of the room. Look at his face as he walks past the camera for a moment he stares straight at the camera and straight at us watching the film. I don't believe that this was a Goof during the making the film I believe that this was done to make the audience feel uneasy and it certainly worked on me.
I love all of those massive sets that were used for the film they really give you a claustrophobic feeling when you see the characters alone in the Halls and Ballrooms and the way that Kubrick's camera glides down the endless maze of hallways. I also love the way that Kubrick kept his camera often far back from the actors leaving a lot of space above there heads and not often going for very extreme close ups which along with those massive high celling sets gives you a sense of the amount of empty space in which the characters are living in this deserted hotel.