The Shining
A masterpiece of modern horror.
A masterpiece of modern horror.
Horror, Thriller
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1980
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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.
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Details
Runtime:
144 min
Release date:
23 May 1980
Country:
GB, US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$19,000,000
Revenue:
$50,312,025
Awards:
6 wins & 9 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
A masterpiece.
– Ben Walters,
Time Out,
6 Oct 2013
fresh:
Kubrick has made a movie that will have to be reckoned with on the highest level.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
21 Oct 2010
fresh:
As a ghost story and adaptation of the Stephen King novel, it's largely a failure. On the other hand, as an example of directorial bravura and as a study of madness and the unreliable narrator, it's a brilliant success.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
30 Apr 2009
rotten:
Kubrick is after a cool, sunlit vision of hell, born in the bosom of the nuclear family, but his imagery -- with its compulsive symmetry and brightness -- is too banal to sustain interest, while the incredibly slack narrative line forestalls suspense.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
8 May 2007
fresh:
The movie is not about ghosts but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
8 May 2007