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The Shining

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The Shining (1980)
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A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
IMDb RATING
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1M
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    • Stanley Kubrick
    • Stephen King(based upon the novel by)
    • Stanley Kubrick(screenplay by)
    • Diane Johnson(screenplay by)
  • Stars
    • Jack Nicholson
    • Shelley Duvall
    • Danny Lloyd
    • Stanley Kubrick
    • Stephen King(based upon the novel by)
    • Stanley Kubrick(screenplay by)
    • Diane Johnson(screenplay by)
  • Stars
    • Jack Nicholson
    • Shelley Duvall
    • Danny Lloyd
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 2.1KUser reviews
    • 364Critic reviews
    • 66Metascore
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    Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, and Danny Lloyd in The Shining (1980)
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    • Dick Hallorann
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    • Trivia
      For the scene in which Jack breaks down the bathroom door, the props department built a door that could be easily broken. However, Jack Nicholson had worked as a volunteer fire marshal and tore it apart far too easily. The props department were then forced to build a stronger door.
    • Goofs
      When Wendy hits Jack over the head with the baseball bat on the staircase, the bat flexes, revealing it to be made of rubber.
    • Quotes

      Jack Torrance: Here's Johnny!

    • Crazy credits
      The party music plays over the closing credits. After it ends, we hear the Overlook Hotel ghosts applaud. They then talk amongst themselves until their voices fade away.
    • Alternate versions
      ABC edited 4 minutes from the film for its 1983 network television premiere.
    • Connections
      Edited into Hai-Kubrick (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      The Shining (Main Title)
      Written by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind

      Performed by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind

      Based on "Dream of a Witches' Sabbath" from Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz and traditional requiem "Dies Irae"

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    Eeriness surpassed by class
    Sometimes all good horror needs is a good idea. But sometimes, rarely indeed, a horror masterpiece will reach us by the hand of a Kubrick, with the adept, elusive touch of a great artist to guide the vision, and we know what separates it from all else.

    Okay, the story has enough promise that even a hired gun would have to try to fail. Heck, even Stephen King himself didn't fare so bad. It's how Kubrick perceives King's universe however, how he fills the frame with it, that renders THE SHINING a feast for the senses.

    Horror that will reach us through the mind and body alike, an assault as it were, tending eventually its pitch to a crescendo, yet curiously not without a delicate lull.

    Kubrick's cinema is, as usually, a sight to behold. We get the adventurous camera that prowls through the lavish corridors of the Overlook Hotel like it is some kind of mystic labyrinth rife for exploration, linear tracking shots exposing impeccably decorated interiors in symmetric grandeur. The geometrical approach in how Kubrick perceives space reminds me very much of Japanese directors of some 10 years before. In that what is depicted in the frame, the elements of narrative, is borderline inconsequential to how they all balance and harmonize together.

    Certain images stand out in this. The first shot of Jack's typewriter, ominously accompanied by the off-screen thumps of a ball, drums of doom that seem to emanate from the very walls or the typewriter itself, an instrument of doom in itself as is later shown. A red river flowing through the hotel's elevators in a poetry of slow motions. Jack hitting the door with the axe, the camera moving along with him, tracking the action as it happens, as though it's the camera piercing through the door and not the axe. The ultra fast zoom in the kid's face violently thrusting us inside his head before we see the two dead girls from his POV. And of course, the epochal bathroom scene.

    Much has been said of Jack Nicholson's obtrusive overacting. His mad is not entirely successful, because, well, he's Jack Nicholson. The guy looks half-mad anyway. Playing mad turns him into an exaggerated caricature of himself. Shelley Duvall on the other hand is one of the most inspired casting choices Kubrick ever made. Coming from a streak of fantastic performances for Robert Altman in the seventies (3 WOMEN, THIEVES LIKE US, NASHVILLE), she brings to her character the right amounts of swanlike fragility and emotional distress. A delicate, detached thing thrown in with the mad.
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    FAQ44

    • What is the name of the actor who played the Man in the Bear Costume?
    • If Stephen King hated this movie, why did he completely back a Direct Sequel to this movie?
    • Did Jack try to kill his family because he went insane or because he sold his soul for a drink?

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    • Release date
      • June 13, 1980 (United States)
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      • Timberline Lodge, Mount Hood, Oregon, USA
    • Production companies
      • Warner Bros.
      • Hawk Films
      • Peregrine
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    • 2 hours 26 minutes
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