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Synopsis: Two little girls hacked to pieces in a hallway. A rotting corpse rises from a bathtub. An elevator door opening to unleash a room-filling ocean of blood. Unforgettable images of terror that envelop a family isolated and snowbound in a huge resort hotel with a macabre history of violence.
Adapted from Stephen King's "The Shining", this movie shows how a house in which horrible things have happened can take on a life of it's own. Jack Nicholson is Jack Torrance, a struggling writer who retreats to The Overlook Hotel as it's caretaker during the winter months, when the hotel itself is snowbound and inaccessible. He brings with him his wife Wendy (Shelly Duvall) and his son Danny (Danny Lloyd). Jack hopes that the isolation will allow him to concentrate on his novel, and turn his life around. Wrong. The Overlook has an evil, terrifying past. The ghosts and specters of all the evil people who have died in the hotel remain. And while the blood was mopped up long ago, the psychic malevolence remains, and have swirled together to give the house it's own dark soul. Throw into the mix the fact that Jack's son, Danny, has a psychic gift called "shining" — which allows him to "see" things that have happened in the past. Danny involuntarily witnesses all the horrific, grisly moments of the Overlook's past. Apart from other haunted house movies, in which the house just throws pots and pans at people, the Overlook is so much more. It seduces Jack, dragging him into insanity, turning him against his family by small degrees. By the end, you can "feel" the house as a character in it's own right. Kubrick creates a movie that is not a hack-em-up sensation. He uses more subtle emotions to slowly raise the level of the viewers unease. We start with boredom, then loneliness, then cabin-fever. By movie's end we realize that Danny and his mother are isolated from the rest of the world, trapped by the snow in a house that never wants them to leave. The Shining is a horror masterpiece. Rating: 9.0 Demonic Bellboys More reviews by CJ please!
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Reviewed by CJ