The Shining Review

Isolated Hotel, twin sisters, paranoid child and an unemployed writer taking up the job to take care of the hotel.Perfect recipe for a scary ride.REDRUM REDRUM!!!

A Stephen King novel with Kubrick Twist!

Jack Nicholson was bang on with every role he played in the 1980s and 1990s.

He plays a writer Jack Torrance who is yet to write something meaningful and needs the money to go on and finds this Hotel which is located out of nowhere.

To earn a quick buck he agrees to become the caretaker of this Hotel and brings his family along with to live in the hotel.

His son has some sort of a telepathic gift known as “The Shining” due to which he sees disturbing visions of the hotel’s past.

It turns into a nightmare for Jack and his wife Wendy(Portrayed by Shelley Duvall) as the solitude and eerie situations fiddles with their imagination and the quote “An Idle Mind is Devil’s Workshop” comes at play with Jack Nicholson going all apey on his wife and child and becomes hell-bent on killing them.

The visions of the by show him two twin girls and he keeps uttering the words REDRUM REDRUM to his mother.

The Staircase sequence and the bathroom sequence are the most horrifying scenes with an equally daunting background score to keep us on the edge of our seats.

Now this movie has been both.Some like to think it's a horror genre masterpiece, some think it's just total nonsense.

You got to watch it to either be amazed by the storytelling or curse the director for ruining the book.

Key things to watch out for:

1)The mystery behind room 237

2)Jack Nicholson and his epic outbursts!

3)The end scene.