The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson. The film is based on Stephen King’s 1977 novel of the same name and stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, and Danny Lloyd. Reactions to the film at the time of its release were mixed; Stephen King criticized the film due to its deviations from the novel. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
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The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson. The film is based on Stephen King’s 1977 novel of the same name and stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, and Danny Lloyd. The central character is Jack Torrance, an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts a position as the off-season caretaker of the isolated historic Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies. After a winter storm leaves the Torrances snowbound, Jack’s sanity deteriorates due to the influence of the supernatural forces that inhabit the hotel. Reactions to the film at the time of its release were mixed; Stephen King criticized the film due to its deviations from the novel. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” A sequel, Doctor Sleep, was released on November 8, 2019, in the U.S. and on October 31,2019, in Europe. The sequel is expected to be released in the UK on November 14, 2019. The movie was released by Warner Bros. on May 23, 1980, and in the US on October 2, 1980. There were several versions for theatrical releases, each of which was cut shorter than the one preceding it; about 27 minutes were cut in total. The hotel, which opened in 1909 and was built on the site of a Native American burial ground, closes during the snowed-in months.
Manager Stuart Ullman warns Jack about the hotel’s reputation: a previous caretaker, Charles Grady, killed his family and himself. Jack is nevertheless impressed with the hotel and takes the job. A month passes; while Jack’s writing goes nowhere, Danny and Wendy explore the hotel’s hedge maze and Hallorann goes to Florida. Danny has frightening visions, while Jack becomes prone to violent outbursts as his mental health deteriorates. Danny’s curiosity about room 237 overtakes him when he sees the room’s door open. Later, Wendy finds Jack screaming during a nightmare while asleep at his typewriter and says he dreamed that he killed her and Danny, which Jack denies. Jack returns to the Gold Room, which is now filled with ghosts. He meets a ghostly bartender named Gold Room and meets a waiter who identifies himself as Delbert Grady. The ghost tells Jack that he has reached out to Jack and told him to get out of the hotel, but Jack tells him to stay away from room 237. Jack and Wendy argue over whether Danny should be removed from the hotel or whether he should be taken to a psychiatric ward. Danny is gifted with psychic abilities that enable him to see into the Hotel’s horrific past. He also meets a dead woman in room 237, but he tells Wendy that he saw nothing but that he tells her he saw a woman strangle him in a drunken rage.
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