The Shining (1980)
15
15/08/2007 (GB)
Horror, Thriller
2h 24m
- 82% (17930 votes)
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A masterpiece of modern horror.
Overview
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
- Stanley KubrickDirector, Screenplay
- Diane JohnsonScreenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$19,000,000
Revenue
$44,781,695
Keywords
- hotel
- new year's eve
- child abuse
- based on novel or book
- isolation
- telepathy
- delusion
- halloween
- snowstorm
- colorado
- seclusion
- surrealism
- alcoholism
- premonition
- psychic power
- caretaker
- loneliness
- vision
- domestic violence
- postmodern
- psychological thriller
- writer
- twins
- labyrinth
- alcoholic
- blizzard
- mutilation
- bloody body of child
- extrasensory perception
- uxoricide
- motherhood
- filicide
- snowed in
- burial ground
- hypothermia
- haunted hotel
- psychological disintegration
- paranoid
- afi
- pediatrician
- repetition
- mother son relationship
- malicious
- supernatural power
- anxious
- new year
- supernatural horror
- ghost child
- psychotronic film
- dreary
- writers-block
- cabin fever
- psychological horror
- deal with the devil
- nuclear family
- avant garde
- suspenseful
- new year's party
- twin sisters
- identical twins
- antagonistic
Top Billed Cast
Jack Nicholson
Jack Torrance
Shelley Duvall
Wendy Torrance
Danny Lloyd
Danny
Scatman Crothers
Hallorann
Barry Nelson
Ullman
Philip Stone
Grady
Joe Turkel
Lloyd
Anne Jackson
Doctor
Tony Burton
Durkin
Lia Beldam
Young Woman in Bath
Recommendations
A Clockwork Orange (82%)
Doctor Sleep (71%)
2001: A Space Odyssey (81%)
Full Metal Jacket (81%)
The Conjuring (75%)
The Exorcist (77%)
Psycho (84%)
Barry Lyndon (80%)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (84%)
