The Shining (DVD)

Isolation. It’s something I’ve experienced only in small doses, and even at that I do NOT like it. It is this horrible feeling (combined with some rather terrifying paranormal activity) that Stephen King based his phenomenal novel ‘The Shining’ upon. It’s a very clever concept. Psychologically isolation is one of the most damaging effects upon the mind, which makes the chilling mental breakdown of main character Jack Torrance all the more believable, and all the more terrifying, because it seems so possible. So, with such a successful and frightening book to use as a foundation, Stanley Kubrick couldn’t have gone wrong, to be honest. The fact that ...  Read the complete review

Jack Torrance is a writer, who takes a job as caretaker at the Overlook Hotel during the winter months, when no-one can holiday there because of the weather conditions. He takes his wife, Wendy, and son, Danny, with him, despite the hotel manager's warnings that a caretaker had gone mad from loneliness one winter, murdering his wife and children before killing himself. The first few weeks are spent quite happily, although Danny has hallucinations of the past and the future, none of which end well. Then when the snows begin, Jack starts to behave strangely, bullying Wendy even more than usual. Danny is injured one day, but tells Wendy it wasn't his father, it was the ...  Read the complete review

The Shining is a 1980 superb psychological horror film based on the Stephen King novel of the same name an directed by Stanley Kubrick (of Dr. Strangelove and Clockwork Orange fame). It follows the story of Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) a writer who accepts a job as a caretaker at an isolated hotel. He is tasked with watching over the hotel during the winter season where it becomes snowed in, alone except for his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and child, Danny (Danny LLoyd). Unfortunately, I didn't go into it being completely ignorant - in which case my experience would have been enhanced. Due to watching it so late, I had already seen the priceless ...  Read the complete review

Based on a novel by Steven King, The Shining stars Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence, a teacher who takes on the job of acting as caretaker at the Overlook Hotel, an isolated place in the Colorado mountains that always gets snowed in during the winter. The place has a colourful history, having been used to host many a wild party by aristocrats in the 20s and 30s, and more recently when an erlier caretaker lost his mind and brutally murdered his wife and children with an axe. There seems to be some unseen force at work at the hotel however, and when Jack sets up there with his family in the hope of completing his novel he begings to go insane, apparently seeing ...  Read the complete review

The Shining is a film based on the 1977 novel of the same name by acclaimed Horror writer Stephen King about a faimily who are asked to look after a hotel during the winter whilst it is out of season for guests to stay, despite the warnings that previous hotel sitters had come to a sticky end, this doesn't stop Jack Torrence from taking is wife and son with him to look after the hotel whilst he works on his writing. The story takes place totally within the bounds of the hotel during a snowstorm and the winter which keeps them trapped in the hotel, as time passes by Jack becomes more and more delusional and angry till he reaches breaking point, and his son goes ...  Read the complete review