The Shinning :review

"TheShining" is one of the best horror and suspense movies I've seen so much so that I've seen it at least 10 times.

The Shining is a 1980 horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the book with the same title.

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Sinopsis:

Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) arrives at the Overlook Hotel to interview for the open position of winter caretaker. The hotel itself is built on the site of an Indian burial ground and becomes completely snowbound during the long winters. Manager Stuart Ullman (Barry Nelson) warns him that a previous caretaker got cabin fever and killed his family and himself. Jack’s son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), has ESP and has had a terrifying premonition about the hotel. Jack's wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), tells a visiting doctor about Danny's imaginary friend Tony and that Jack had given up drinking because he had physically abused Danny after a binge.

The family arrives at the hotel on closing day and is given a tour. The elderly African-American chef Dick Hallorann (Scatman Crothers) surprises Danny by speaking with him telepathically and offering him some ice cream. He explains to Danny that he and his grandmother shared the gift, which he calls "shining." Danny asks if there is anything to be afraid of in the hotel, particularly Room 237. Hallorann tells Danny that the hotel itself has a "shine" to it along with many memories, not all of which are good. He strictly warns Danny to avoid room 237.

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A month passes and Jack's writing project is going nowhere. Meanwhile, Danny and Wendy have fun and go in the hotel's hedge maze; Jack discovers a model of this maze, showing Wendy and Danny inside it, in one of the hotel lounges. Wendy is concerned about the phone lines being out due to the heavy snowfall and Danny has more frightening visions. As time passes, Jack slowly starts acting strange and frustrated, often prone to violent outbursts. Danny’s curiosity about Room 237 finally gets the better of him when he sees the room has been opened. Later, Danny shows up injured and visibly traumatized, causing Wendy to think that Jack has been abusing Danny.

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Jack wanders into the hotel’s Gold Room where he meets the ghostly bartender Lloyd (Joe Turkel) who serves him bourbon on the rocks. Jack complains to the bartender about his relationship with Wendy. Afterward, Wendy shows up and apologizes for accusing Jack, explaining that Danny told her a "crazy woman in one of the rooms" was responsible for his injuries. Jack investigates Room 237 and encounters a ghost named Lorraine as a young naked woman in the bathroom, having a bath who comes out and kisses him. During that kiss, she then morphed into a rather old rotting woman who chases Jack out, cackling at his infidelity. Jack tells Wendy he saw nothing. Wendy and Jack argue about whether Danny should be removed from the hotel and Jack returns to the Gold Room, now filled with ghosts having a costume party. Here, he meets who he believes is the ghost of the previous caretaker, Grady (Philip Stone), who tells Jack that he has to "correct" his wife and child. Later, Jack sabotages the hotel's two-way radio by removing capacitors from its main circuit board, and removing the fuel injection manifold from the Snowcat, cutting off communication and access to the outside world.

Meanwhile, in Florida, Hallorann gets a premonition that something is wrong at the hotel and takes a flight back to Colorado to investigate. Danny starts calling out the word "redrum" frantically and goes into a trance, now referring to himself as "Tony." Wendy discovers Jack's typewriter and that he has been typing endless pages of a repetitive manuscript "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" formatted in various styles. Horrified, she confronts Jack, but he attacks her before she knocks him unconscious with a baseball bat and locks him in a kitchen pantry. Jack converses through the door with Grady, who then unlocks the door, releasing him.

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Danny has written "REDRUM" in lipstick on the door of Wendy’s bedroom, which is "MURDER" spelled backwards as seen from a mirror. At that moment, Jack, armed with a fire axe, begins to chop through the door leading to his family's living quarters. In a frantic maneuver, Wendy sends Danny out through the bathroom window but is unable fit through it herself. Jack then starts chopping down the bathroom door with the axe and leers through the hole he has made, yelling the iconic "Here's Johnny!" line, but retreats after Wendy slashes his hand with a butcher knife. Hearing the engine of a Snowcat that Halloran has borrowed to get up the mountain, Jack leaves the room and begins to wander about the hotel, ambushing and killing Hallorann with the axe in the lobby. Jack then pursues Danny into the hedge maze by following his footprints, but is misled when Danny manages to walk backwards in his own tracks and leaps behind a corner, covering his tracks with snow. Wendy and Danny escape in Hallorann's snowcat while Jack slowly freezes to death in the hedge maze.

In the final scene, the camera slowly zooms in on an old photograph taken at the hotel on July 4, 1921 as Midnight, the Stars, and You is played through the hallways. A smiling Jack Torrance is at the front of the crowd of revelers, in which it is revealed in a documentary that it is an old incarnation of Jack.🔗

It would be a bit long to explain the movie since I am sure that most of the users of the platform have seen it and surely share my opinion, of course the book is also and I have read it and besides being very interesting and entertaining and practically put you as the protagonist in the reading for me the movie was better since the actors and especially the actor Jack Nicholson did a masterful performance as the villain.
Everything in the film is from beginning to end a panorama of suspense and impressive horror plus seeing the protagonist on many occasions being cornered was for me as desperate as stressful, this title demonstrates the quality of Stephen king for his psychological horror novels and coupled with the mystical horror that has the novel.

Today it is a cult film although for its release was not well received by critics, however over time it was positioned as one of the best films of psychological horror genre in the minds of all those who have seen it so far.

Conclusion:
As I said the psychological and emotional stress it causes is impressive at least for me when I see it I try to turn off my memories to believe that it is the first time I see it and so I can enjoy its content.
As a curious fact and that today apparently young or younger people do not seem to be scared of this type of film either by its extreme influence on Web or simply their fears are other, the case is that a nephew no younger than 12 years old told me that the film was not the big deal and that he would prefer to see other genres of horror preferably visual horror where dismemberments are the order of the day, I was like I can not believe it, but yes and although many movies are like that I prefer psychological horror as the intrigue and suspense of not knowing something triggers both your adrenaline and other chemicals and bodily functions that are normally dormant as well as giving some spice to the mind and senses but very sheltered in the community and safety of the home, something very natural in most people to have an exciting adventure without the fatal or hurtful consequences of it.

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I believe that in the future and with the early incorporation of virtual reality helmets soon this will be practically a way of life, today thanks to the internet, smart phones and computers many of the work is done from home and if you think there is a long way to go before these virtual reality helmets reach the hands of consumers search the web for the advances since virtual reality was discovered and I recommend another movie that is not horror but gives much visual information about this next reality and how we will see the movies in the near future (ReadyPlayerOne).

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The Shining is one of the best horror and suspense movies I've seen so much so that I've seen it at least 10 times.
It would be a bit long to explain the movie since I am sure that most of the users of the platform have seen it and surely share my opinion, of course the book is also and I have read it and besides being very interesting and entertaining and practically put you as the protagonist in the reading for me was better the movie because the actors and especially the actor Jack Nicholson did a masterful performance as the villain.
Everything in the film is from beginning to end a panorama of suspense and horror impressive plus seeing the protagonist on many occasions to be cornered was for me as desperate as stressful, this title shows the quality of Stephen King for his psychological horror novels and coupled with the mystical horror that has the novel.
Today it is a cult movie although it was not well received by the critics at its release, however, with time it was positioned as one of the best movies of the psychological horror genre in the minds of all those who have seen it so far.

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As I said the psychological and emotional stress it causes is impressive at least for me when I see it I try to turn off my memories to believe that it is the first time I see it and so I can enjoy its content.
As a curious fact and that today apparently young or younger people do not seem to be scared of this type of film either by its extreme influence on Web or simply their fears are other, the case is that a nephew no younger than 12 years old told me that the film was not the big deal and that he would prefer to see other genres of horror preferably visual horror where dismemberments are the order of the day, I was like I can not believe it, but yes and although many movies are like that I prefer psychological horror as the intrigue and suspense of not knowing something triggers both your adrenaline and other chemicals and bodily functions that are normally dormant as well as giving some spice to the mind and senses but very sheltered in the community and safety of the home, something very natural in most people to have an exciting adventure without the fatal or hurtful consequences of it.
I believe that in the future and with the early incorporation of virtual reality helmets soon this will be practically a way of life, today thanks to the internet, smart phones and computers many of the jobs are done from home and if you think that there is a long way to go before these virtual reality helmets reach the hands of consumers search the web for the advances since virtual reality was discovered and I recommend another movie that is not horror but gives much visual information about this next reality and how we will see the movies in the near future (Ready Player One).

There really is a great variety of horror movies, but the ones that generate a psychological terror are the best at least for me, the visual terror has its flow but the stress, anxiety and paranoia that psychological terror can cause you is totally another level, and that many people in the world can cause this psychological terror in others and if we give a small example is bullying, we all know that there are different types of bullying but the most used is the psychological bullying and that is a form of terror towards a person, dominating them and making them do and say things against their will is something normal for a person who can control the mind with fear and psychological terror, I have known a few like that who are masters in the art of manipulation, although I am not sure if they also dominate the use of psychological terror but already in itself the power to manipulate the minds of others is something very low, that my point of view as a content creator and fan of psychology.