The Shining

Hello peoples. Today I'm blogging on The Shining. Here it goes.

The shining is a very different horror movie. I have not read the book yet but I hope to. It is directed by Stanley Kubrick and it is amazing. Here is the basic story with no big spoilers. It's about a man named Jack Torrance who is going to be the winter caretaker of a hotel and he is taking his family with him.

Due to the hotels location in the mountains it is virtually inaccessible in the winter so he's there alone with his family for a few months. The main horror feature in this movie is not so much blood and gore or physical things like a monster, (but it does have plenty of things like that.) Its mainly about Jack descending from a loving father to the brink of madness to do... Horrible things. It also has very good supernatural events and Jack's only son Danny is tied into those events.

It's not the kind of scary where something pops out of a closet and scares you it's something where your like... Wait, what just happened and then you think about it for a while, realize what happened, and pee your pants. It also has some very disturbing scenes involving gore but it's not really like movies today it's more... Horrifyingly artistic. My dad tells me Stanley Kubrick was an artist so I guess that makes sense. It is such an artistic movie that many of the most terrifying scenes are open to interpretation but in such a way there's no real interpretation that's not extremely creepy. I really loved this movie and I was very excited to see that Stephen King, the author of the book, has released a sequel, I think it's called Sleep Doctor which is one of the reasons why I want to read The Shining as well.

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