One of my relatively favored films that engrosses me every Halloween season is the
1980 horror film The Shining. This movie consists of drama, horror, mystery and suspense, produced
and directed by the legendary Stanley Kubrick himself and novelist Stephen Edwin King. The Shining
focused on the broad strokes of the original Stephen King story, while the visuals, atmosphere, tone,
and sheer terror of the moments Stanley Kubrick caught on film were more than enough to scare most
people to the bone. That's the lasting impression that was left. The twins, the hotel itself and the way it
was shot, the isolation, the eerie transformation of Jack, the room 237, the blood pouring out of the
elevator and flooding the hall, Jack wanting to sabotage
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With wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and psychic
son Danny (Danny Lloyd) in town, 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) encounters with
Jack to inform him that a previous caretaker went crazy and assailed his family during the winter of
1970. Adamant of not caring, Jack takes the job anyways even though the manager informed him about
the incident that occurred. 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 irate orders not to be disturbed. Danny's alter ego, "Tony," however, starts warning of murder 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 amoral behavior and Danny's visit to