The Shining (1980)

My Rating: 9.5/10

The Shining I think was a terrific horror thriller. It was directed by the man who made A Clockwork Orange, and that man is Stanley Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick's The Shining was a great 80s horror movie only because the scenes in The Shining were absolutely horrifying. The Shining is about a man named Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) who becomes the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel up in the secluded mountains of Colorado. Jack, being a family man, takes his wife and son to the hotel to keep him company throughout the long and isolated nights. During their stay strange things occur when Jack's son Danny sees gruesome images powered by a force called "The Shining" and Jack is heavily affected by this. Along with writer's block and the demons of the hotel haunting him Jack has a complete mental breakdown and the situation takes a sinister turn for the worse.

Some of The Shining's scenes made me terrified. There were a lot of scenes that I can remember, such as The Twins in the hallway wanting to play with Danny. Also there was a scene when Jack goes to the bathroom and there is a naked lady in there and Jack makes love with her until she turns into this old lady with green puss coming out of her skin. There was also a scene that disturbed me the most in the Shining and that was when Wendy was going up the stairs and she sees two men in a room performing some sexual content and this one guy was in a bear suit. So I don't know it was fucking weird but, still it creeped me the hell out! There was also the famous Red Rum scene and the Dull Boy scene. Beyond those scenes was also the greatest scene in the whole film and that was where Jack gets a axe and starts chopping down the door and says to Wendy "HERE'S JOHNNY!".

Tbe ending scene for The Shining was absolutely phenomenal. In the end Jack chases Danny through this grass field maze outside while it's snowing out and Danny tricks Jack by disappearing his foot steps in the snow to make Jack run around and get tired. While Danny escapes the maze and leaves with Wendy and they ride away with a snow plower leaving Jack to be trapped in the maze until he passes out and freezes to death.

The Shining won a couple of awards such as 1 win & 5 nominations. It also got #6 for Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments. The Shining is Stanley Kubrick's 2nd Masterpiece!

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