1980 2h 24m Stanley Kubrick

The Shining

Name: The Shining
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Horror, Drama
Released: 1980
Rating: 8.4
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers

★ 8.4 IMDb

Mystery & Thriller Horror Drama

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

Writers Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson

Cast Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers

DP John Alcott

Music Wendy Carlos

Essays and Criticism

On this film

To Forever Holding Your Peace by Bart Versteirt, photogénie

On Stanley Kubrick

Kubrick at Cluj by Alberto Castellano, FIPRESCI Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick Film, and the Uses of History by D.B. Jones, Screening the Past

In conversation with other films

Ghosts of Celluloid Past and Digital Present by Bart Versteirt, photogénie

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