

The original book is close enough to the movie in story that – when I began to reread it – I honestly couldn't remember what was from the source material and what wasn't. It destroyed me: it's the only film which, to this day, I have trouble watching alone. It burned images into my mind: Danny's endless steadicam cycle down the hotel corridors, ending with the twins in the hallway the woman in room 237 the creepy partygoers in animal masks the horrifying reveal of the message "Redrum" the wash of blood from the elevator Jack Nicholson with the axe at the door calling "Here's Johnny!" and the maze, with Jack's sloping walk as he pursues his wife and child. Then I watched Kubrick's film (long before the rating on the box suggested that I should). It wasn't scary per se it was tense and atmospheric. I first read the book when I was 13, and loved it. The Shining is two stories, both the same, but somehow very different.

For the King fan, however, it's hard to think of one without the other. This is the story of both King's 1977 novel and Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation three years later, but they're vastly distinctive beasts. Eventually, he attacks his family, attempting to kill them in a twisted mirroring of the awful events that, it transpires, occurred in the hotel's past. But when they're alone, Jack appears to go insane, pushed into fantasy – or hallucination. Moving his wife, Wendy, and their son, Danny, into it for the season, he hopes to find peace: to finish his writing project, to escape his latent alcoholism, and to stich his fractured family unit together. It does not store any personal data.The Shining is the story of Jack Torrance, who is employed as the caretaker of the gargantuan Overlook Hotel in Colorado one winter. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance".

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