TMDB 8.4 1980 USA 146 min

The Shining

Directed by Stanley Kubrick

Here's Johnny!

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.

Starring
Jack NicholsonShelley DuvallDanny LloydScatman Crothers
with Barry Nelson, Philip Stone, Joe Turkel, Anne Jackson
Screenplay — Stanley Kubrick
Cinematography — John Alcott
Screenplay — Diane Johnson
Based on the novel by — Stephen King
Screenplay — Diane Johnson
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The Shining

Stephen King

King's Jack is a good man losing a fight. Kubrick's Jack was never a good man. King has not forgiven this.

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02 Companion Analytical Psychology Jung on what surfaces when a person is isolated long enough. The hotel is only the setting. → 03 Soundtrack The Shining OST Wendy Carlos →

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