The Shining
A family who decides to move to an isolated hotel during winter discovers the hotel's dark secrets and things results into a homicidal maniac hell-bent on terrorizing the family.
15 July 1927, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1968
23 March 1937, Flint, Michigan, USA
1 January 1973, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 April 1917, San Francisco, California, USA
7 July 1949, Houston, Texas, USA
14 April 1924, Kirkstall, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
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.
June 17, 2014
One of the best scary movies ever made, one of the best scary movies even imaginable.
October 21, 2010
Kubrick has made a movie that will have to be reckoned with on the highest level.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
