Stanley Kubrick • The Shining
“All work & no play makes Jack a dull boy.” The Shining is known as “a masterpiece of modern horror” & I couldn’t describe it better. Based on a novel by Stephen King, it’s a story about Jack Torrance {a writer & recovering alcoholic played by the always amazing Jack Nicholson}, who takes a job as an off-season caretaker at an isolated hotel called the Overlook Hotel. I haven’t read the novel, that is slightly different from the movie, but I think Kubrick made a brilliant ...
