The Shining (1980)
Directed by Stanley
Kubrick this film based on the novel of the same name stars Jack
Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd and Scatman Crothers. A couple
and their son go to spend the winter as caretakers at an isolated
hotel in the mountains.
Kubrick puts on a
master class of menace and foreboding in this film that is full of
creepy moment after creepy moment. Where I find the film to fall a
little short is that maybe it lacks the thematic depth of Kubrick's
other work and the novel on which it is based. At times Shelley
Duvall's performance seems weak to me but that could well be due to
the massive stress Kubrick is known to have put her under.
4/5
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