Review of The Shining (1980) by Anders A — 17 Jan 2016
Simply the best horror movie ever made. Well, not quite simple, given it's a work signed by master Kubrick. Casting Jack Nicholson in perhaps his greatest, wildest and madest role? Lumination psyche turns cold as frotsbite, during the isolation of both the outlook hotel and his turned-off writer mind.
His wife, fish-eye, toothing-sticking, and always gasping for air, Shelley Duvall somewhat mixed up in a Kubrick-affair resulted in numerous takes, though closing in as perfection, with her nerve-shrieking wrecthing act.
Their son, Danny, with the ability to Shine through thoughts and time, controlled by his inner subconsious voice, ripping through the horror history of the Outlook Hotel. But, is this fiction, is their minds adherent or is it the hotel which in tunneling the spirits of the devoured? Scene after scene, Kubrick channels legendary quotes and stills, so visual, so tempting, so horrifying.
The wave of blood exploding out from the elevator, the face expressions of Jack Torrent, it's bashing my brain the-fuck-in. The satanic-witches-sabbath-chanting marking the utter death-path, into the frozen endless death, with a hauting little witt-scared boy, in the midst of a snowfilled maze of total mind-isolation.
"You credit is no good here". Ending off with a still of Jack Torrent in Eliphas Levi - Sabbathical Goat pose.
This review of The Shining (1980) was written by Anders A on 17 Jan 2016.
The Shining has generally received very positive reviews.
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