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1980 2h 24m

The Shining

Directed by Stanley Kubrick

The Shining is a Stanley Kubrick adaptation of Steven King’s horror novel of the same name. The film takes the viewer into a remote hotel where a Jack Torrance and his wife and son must live in for the winter. One of the scariest films of all times mixes up reality and makes isolation a psychological nightmare.

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Review of The Shining 1980

'Here's Johnny'

From the very opening sequence, with its Berlioz theme (*) (Symphony Fantastique - Dies Irae: re-interpretated by Wendy Carlos) and unnerving fish-eye-vista-heli-shots, you know you're not going into something safe with The Shining. The Shining is influential in many ways. It will change the way you

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Budget
$19,000,000
Revenue
$50,312,025