The Shining
A masterpiece of modern horror.
19802h 24mNo ratings yet
- Thriller
- Horror
Overview
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.
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- mother son relationship
- psychological thriller
- blizzard
- vision
- isolation
- anxious
- loneliness
- frantic
- egotistical
- mean spirited
- child abuse
- hotel
- telepathy
- delusion
- grave
- snowstorm
- colorado
- seclusion
- surrealism
- alcoholism
- premonition
- psychic power
- caretaker
- domestic violence
- postmodern
- writer
- electronic music score
- twins
- labyrinth
- cynical
- alcoholic
- mutilation
- bloody body of child
- extrasensory perception
- uxoricide
- motherhood
- filicide
- snowed in
- burial ground
- hypothermia
- haunted hotel
- psychological disintegration
- detached
- paranoid
- vexed
- afi
- pediatrician
- repetition
- malicious
- supernatural power
- supernatural horror
- ghost child
- psychotronic film
- writers-block
- cabin fever
- psychological horror
- negative
- deal with the devil
- nuclear family
- avant garde
- yosemite national park
- twin sisters
- identical twins
- arrogant
- assertive
- demeaning
- enraged
- frustrated
- harsh
- sardonic
- disturbed
- halloween
- ambiguous
- comforting
- subjective
- new year's eve
- dreary
- writer's block
- frightened
- new year's party
- new year
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 23, 1980
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- english
- Countries
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Production
- Warner Bros. Pictures,Hawk Films,Peregrine,Producers Circle,The Producer Circle Co.,Warner Bros. Pictures, Peregrine, Hawk Films, The Producer Circle Co.
- Budget
- $19,000,000
- Revenue
- $50,312,025
- IMDb
- tt0081505