The Shining

1980 • 143 minutos

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"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" -- or, rather, a homicidal boy in Stanley Kubrick's eerie 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel. With wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and psychic son Danny (Danny Lloyd) in tow, frustrated writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as the winter caretaker at the opulently ominous, mountain-locked Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. Before the Overlook is vacated for the Torrances, the manager (Barry Nelson) informs Jack that a previous caretaker went crazy and slaughtered his family; Jack thinks it's no problem, but Danny's "shining" hints otherwise. Settling into their routine, Danny cruises through the empty corridors on his Big Wheel and plays in the topiary maze with Wendy, while Jack sets up shop in a cavernous lounge with strict orders not to be disturbed. Danny's alter ego, "Tony," however, starts warning of "redrum" as Danny is plagued by more blood-soaked visions of the past, and a blocked Jack starts visiting the hotel bar for a few visions of his own. Frightened by her husband's behavior and Danny's visit to the forbidding Room 237, Wendy soon discovers what Jack has really been doing in his study all day, and what the hotel has done to Jack.

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Only 100 pages into the book and I'm so disappointed I watched the movie at all let alone first.Kubrick omitted several integral things from the book in his film and I'm only a fifth of the way through. READ THE BOOK,alternatively if you can find it the telemovie I hear is good.Why is that directors often ruin such magical literature😭

Can see why this movie developed a cult following but tbh i think the shining could be done brilliantly today as a limited Netflix Series. Get Mike Flannagan involved and have season 1 be the shining and season 2 Doctor Sleep.

Did he even read the book?! I see why King hated it so much, I think all Kubrick kept were the names. Watch the telemovie.