Stanley Kubrick directs this utterly chilling adaptation of Stephen King’s shocker, The Shining.  Seeking solitude in order to write a novel, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as an off-season caretaker at the remote Overlook Hotel in Colorado.  Eager to get started, Jack disregards warnings that the isolation drove a former caretaker mad, and moves into the massive resort with his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd).  But Danny has a supernatural gift which makes him aware of an evil lurking in the hotel, and sure enough, as winter storms cut the hotel off from civilization, Jack gradually becomes murderously insane.

“An unending roller coaster of terror that knows exactly how to get under the skin of anyone who watches it.” – Cody Dericks, Next Best Picture 

“The terrifying aspect of The Shining, and its most enduring quality, is  how Kubrick has trapped us in his cinematic maze to search without hope  of ever discovering an adequate answer outside of our own making.” –  Brian Eggert, Deep Focus Review