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Stanley Kubrick directs this chilling adaptation of the Stephen
King shocker. 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 civilisation, Jack gradually becomes murderously insane.
From Amazon.co.uk
Stanley Kubrick's
The Shining is less an adaptation of Stephen King's best-selling
horror novel than a complete re-imagining of it from the inside
out. In King's book, the Overlook Hotel is a haunted place that
takes possession of its off-season caretaker and provokes him to
murderous rage against his wife and young son. Kubrick's film is
an existential Road Runner cartoon (his steadicam scurrying
through the hotel's labyrinthine hallways), in which the
cavernously empty spaces inside the Overlook Hotel mirror the
emptiness in the soul of the blocked writer settled in for a long
winter's hibernation. As many have pointed out, King's
protagonist goes mad, but Kubrick's Jack Torrance (Jack
Nicholson) is Looney Tunes from the moment we meet him--all
arching eyebrows and mischievous grin. (Both Nicholson and
Shelley Duvall reach new levels of hysteria in their
performances, driven to extremes by the director's fanatical
demand s for take after take after take.)
The Shining is terrifying--but not in the way fans of the novel
might expect. When it was redone as a TV mini-series (reportedly
because of King's dissatisfaction with the Kubrick film), the
famous topiary-animal attack (which was deemed impossible to film
in 1980) was there--but the deeper horror was lost. Kubrick's
The Shining gets under your skin and chills your bones; it stays
with you, inhabits you, haunts you. And there's no place to
hide... --
Jim Emerson, Amazon.com
Synopsis
Released for the fist time in the remastered original widescreen
cinematic format, this 2 disc special edition includes the
documentary The Making of the Shining and three new featurettes,
commentaries and the theatrical trailer.
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