The Shining
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.
- Genre: Horror, Thriller
- Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures, Peregrine, Hawk Films, The Producer Circle Co.
- Keyword: hotel, new year's eve, child abuse, based on novel or book, isolation, telepathy, delusion, halloween, snowstorm, colorado, seclusion, surrealism, alcoholism, premonition, psychic power, caretaker, loneliness, vision, domestic violence, postmodern, psychological thriller, writer, twins, labyrinth, alcoholic, blizzard, mutilation, bloody body of child, extrasensory perception, uxoricide, motherhood, filicide, snowed in, burial ground, hypothermia, haunted hotel, psychological disintegration, paranoid, afi, pediatrician, repetition, mother son relationship, malicious, supernatural power, anxious, new year, supernatural horror, ghost child, psychotronic film, dreary, writers-block, cabin fever, psychological horror, deal with the devil, nuclear family, avant garde, suspenseful, new year's party, twin sisters, identical twins, antagonistic
- Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Philip Stone
