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IMDb rating 8.4
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Critic rating 9.7

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Isyix Rose
rated 9

It's a iconic movie, a classic horror film, but the final is confusing to me

1 year ago
Rhonda walling
rated 10

Love this flick! Jack Nicholson great actor

8 months ago
Caroline Hjortshøj
rated 8

A classic!

1 year ago
Elina García
rated 8

Not that scary as I thought

1 year ago
Critic Peter Bradshaw
rated 10

The rerelease of Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' is another chance to savour, first of all, those magnificent interior sets.

Read full review at The Guardian
Malin Andersson
rated 10

The best horrormovie of all times

1 year ago
Mia
rated 6

It’s a great movie and I can understand why it became so huge, but today, it really doesn’t add up to the better, scarier horror movies. Kinda disappointed as I really wanted to like this movie

2 years ago
gwrkhs4dkj
rated 9

Good movie

1 year ago

Cast & Crew

Stanley Kubrick
Director
Jack Nicholson
As Jack Torrance
Joe Turkel
As Lloyd
Scatman Crothers
As Hallorann
Tony Burton
As Durkin
Shelley Duvall
As Wendy Torrance

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The Shining is a horror thriller film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. The film takes place in Colorado, where a writer, Jack Torrance (played by Jack Nicholson), takes a job as the winter caretaker of an isolated hotel, bringing his wife Wendy (played by Shelley Duvall) and their son Danny (played by Danny Lloyd) with him. Danny possesses psychic abilities, which are amplified by the hotel's supernatural energies, and he begins to experience terrifying visions and encounters with the hotel's ghosts. The film explores themes of isolation, madness, and the supernatural, and it is known for its atmospheric and suspenseful cinematography and its iconic performances from Nicholson and Duvall. The film was released in 1980 to critical acclaim and has since become a horror classic.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as The Shining include Jaws, Halloween, Trilogy of Terror, Lifeforce, Rituals, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter.