The Shining
After Jack secures the job as a winter caretaker of an hotel, his family heads to the hotel for the winter where an evil spiritual presence influences the family into violence and psychic premonitions.
25 September 1958, London, England, UK
23 March 1937, Flint, Michigan, USA
August 28, 1928 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
7 July 1949, Houston, Texas, USA
24 July 1922, Kent, England, UK
14 April 1924, Kirkstall, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
1968
15 July 1927, Brooklyn, New York, USA
May 28, 1938 in Enfield, Middlesex, London, England, UK
November 29, 1918 in London, England, UK
22 April 1937, Neptune, New Jersey, USA
1 January 1973, Chicago, Illinois, USA
3 September 1925, Millvale, Pennsylvania, USA
20 February 1948, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
22 February 1938, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 February 1929, New York City, New York, USA
16 April 1917, San Francisco, California, USA
1933, Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
1968
23 May 1910, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
June 17, 2014
One of the best scary movies ever made, one of the best scary movies even imaginable.
October 06, 2013
A masterpiece.
May 08, 2007
The movie is not about ghosts but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them.
October 06, 2013
The Shining is like a near-miss auto accident: You don't know how scared you really were until you start shaking a few hours later.
December 21, 2016
Anyone coming to this work for the first time should be forewarned that the will generate more giggles (and perhaps a yawn or two), but there is absolutely nothing here to fear.
May 22, 2016
Shock effect and graphic imagery don't compensate for the sense of pointlessness and even distaste that is left at the end of the movie.
October 21, 2010
Kubrick has made a movie that will have to be reckoned with on the highest level.
February 17, 2016
If The Shining isn't trivial, it certainly encourages one to think that it is. But, perhaps, even that's a change for the better. Generally, it's the other way around.
April 19, 2013
...above all a movie about spaces, and how few things are more frightening than not knowing which way to go.
May 08, 2007
Kubrick is after a cool, sunlit vision of hell, born in the bosom of the nuclear family, but his imagery -- with its compulsive symmetry and brightness -- is too banal to sustain interest, while the incredibly slack narrative line forestalls suspense.
May 13, 2013
The first time I saw Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, I had to turn it off during three key moments... Perhaps this time, I prayed, [it] would seem almost comically silly. Yeah, not so much.
April 30, 2009
As a ghost story and adaptation of the Stephen King novel, it's largely a failure. On the other hand, as an example of directorial bravura and as a study of madness and the unreliable narrator, it's a brilliant success.
