Work · Film · 1980

The Shining

Stanley Kubrick, director · Stanley Kubrick, screenwriter · Diane Johnson, screenwriter

Studio: Warner Bros.
Units: 1 film, 2 cuts
imdb: tt0081505

Jack Torrance takes the Overlook Hotel's winter caretaker job with his wife Wendy and son Danny; the hotel's ghosts work on him until he turns on his family, in a version that plays the horror as cold and clinical rather than a warm family's slow unraveling.

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Novel 1977 → Film 1980 · Direct adaptationThe ShiningThe hotel, the family, and the ghosts carry over. The boiler that destroys the Overlook does not, and neither does the rescuer who drives the family out.66composite · editorial

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