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Shelley Duvall as Wendy Torrance
Danny Lloyd as Danny Tarrance
Scatman Crothers as Dick Holloran
Barry Nelson as Stuart Ullman
Director is Stanley Kubrick
Review Date is June 29, 2002
Horror-Jack Torrance is a writer who has block and needs time away. So he agrees to be the caretaker, along with his wife and son, of a resort hotel over the winter. The son Danny seems to be "possessed" by Tony, someone who lives in his mouth, and Tony shows Danny an elevator filled with blood, which scathes him. However, the owner Stuart Ullman tells Jack that, ten years ago, a man got cabin fever and chopped up his wife and kids, then killing himself. Natrually, that doesn't faze Jack. About a month after moving in, Danny finds out something about himself, while Jack, still with block, goes crazy and murderous.
10/10-A first rate horror film. Jack is delicious as crazy Jack Torrance, and Shelley looked genuinely scared. It had a true sense of creepiness to it. I had no idea what would come next in this ghost story. If you want to feel cold, see this or Fargo. Though it was confusing, you have to make your own assumptions.
This could not have worked without the magical work of Stanley Kubrick. He is one of the most talented directors ever. His masterwork cannot be surpassed. What he does is rather eccentric. Mr. Kubrick called up Stephen King while filming at 3:00 AM to ask questions like "Do you believe in God?" What he did, because he is so masterful, he made sure that young Danny Lloyd did not know he was on a horror movie until he saw the final work. That is the talent of a true genius.
Rated R for violence, language, and nudity.