The Horror That is The Shining

[Insomniak]

I don't know if it's love or fear or both laced in adrenaline but this movie scares me to the core, a fear that I enjoy revisiting once in a while in this epic horror title: The Shining. I read the book or atleast most of it. I think possibly the director Mr. Stanley Kubrick the great went all out on it, it's too krool, too real, to thought out and deadly serious. i watched the director very closely on the behind the scenes footage to The Shining and it wasn't games it was like life and death with this guy. Also Mr. Stephen King on youtube speaks about that great director on a phone call he had with him and thus verifying what I pretty much assumed about the director being a genius. I regard Stephen King and the great movie maker Stanley Kubrick as Gods.
Do we all agree that this is the greatest horror flick of all time/it has to be.
What makes it so cool? What gives it so much death vision? Was it the King? Was it Kubrick?

[karend3]

Truthfully I like the remake better. Kubrick just didn't know how to show a family bond and that is what Kings story is about, the Hotel trying to break that family bond. King even remarked that is the reason he had the remake done.

[bryras]

I think that Kubrick's movie is a pretty good flick.

That being said, I think that Kubrick took the stroy in his own direction and I really wish that he would have stayed true with the story. With the cast they had that would have been great.

The movie is fine but if you are comparing Kubrick's movie to Mr. king's book I say the book is by far superior.

The newer mini-series version is pretty good if you haven't seen that one yet you might check it out.

[Insomniak]

Kubrick is God. So I agree with what is being said that Mr King would of liked the picture to of evolved a relationship with the family, and also I think that Mr. Kings death-vision came through too though in the film. So obviously when you take two heavy weights like King&Kubrick and throw it in a blender and see what macabre will come out then it will become a sort of hybrid emotional state. The peculiar chill that arose the death dear within me was came from the fluid tracking camera movements kind of lie a carnival ride. Mr King like Kubrick were both on the same agenda:MURDER

[marew1]

I thought the remake was far better and more true to the story.

[Insomniak]

see that's why I want to keep seeing it-the tv version, I remember when it came out and it was a big deal and I didn't see it for some idiot reason. but I kept on watching the trailers too it for tv and it looked cool as all hell um I must of been like on zombie mode or whatever but I got to see Desolation and that was damned good- I busted a gut at the "maniac cop" scene in it. It had SK signature all over it. Way back when Pet Cemetery came out, I vaguely remember seeing it because I was way younger but that was a hell of a thing-it was getting scarier by the popcorn kernel. The remake of The Shining may of been more faithful to the book, or more specifically was a more realized vision for the author-SK, but That baby-original- aint no way going to go down in history as a sloppy scare flick man, aint no way aint no how Lol, impossible. Just think marew1, a man in a Hotel is going to hack you up, you aint leaving, you aint eating, you aint breathing, and all you got is hell starring at you on every corner. I will enjoy Stephen King's more realized version, I also know that King and Kubrick is like viper and cobra[something will manifest-some hybrid\some animal some/thing.

[Insomniak]

I read the story and I like the hell of the movie The Shining what I got out of the book was a more warm feeling, an isolated chill if you will that raced up my bones like ice when I got the page where Mr. Torrance takes a peek at a wasp nest and can't keep his eyes off it, he's in a trance. Both versions are equally high-caliber hell. As for the third version, the one that was put on tv, will become a mission of mine to see. I wish I could of when it made the air waves but I degross.

[Vic Vega]

Although it's different than the book, Kubrick got it right the first time!

[catnoel]

Yes the Shining is one of the greatest horror movies of all time to me. It was well done!!! The surroundings, dialouge etc were well thougt out and not overdone. I have watched it a million times and I still get the creeps!!! The book is the bomb as well.

[Insomniak]

Hardcore, the size of that place in the film alone gave me a drudging feeling of cold blooded isolation. Rapidly, I began to let the place take hold of me. We have a similar Hotel in Michigan way up in the U.P., a double suicide happened there just recently.