Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror film "The Shining" was recently selected as one of the 100 best movies of all time by the venerable once-a-decade Sight and Sound poll, coming in at #88. It was one of three films by Kubrick to have made the list, the others being "Barry Lyndon" (at #45) and "2001: A Space Odyssey" (at #6). Many hold "The Shining" to be one of the scariest films of all time, and its iconography is referenced and recognizable across the pop culture landscape; Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One," for instance, recreated whole scenes from Kubrick's film.
Perhaps infamously, Stephen King, the author of the 1977 novel on which the film is based, openly dislikes Kubrick's film. In King's original version of the story, the main character, Jack Torrance, was a recovering alcoholic attempting to stay sober ... just like King. "The Shining" book is about a normal man who succumbs to the evil...
Perhaps infamously, Stephen King, the author of the 1977 novel on which the film is based, openly dislikes Kubrick's film. In King's original version of the story, the main character, Jack Torrance, was a recovering alcoholic attempting to stay sober ... just like King. "The Shining" book is about a normal man who succumbs to the evil...
- 12/16/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
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