Today’s motion picture is a horror film with scenes that happen on October 30. Watch this movie tonight.
THE SHINING
Recovering alcoholic write Jack Torrance interviews for the job of overwinter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in spite of being told that a previous caretaker went crazy and killed his family. Jack’s son Danny has a vision of horror at the hotel. On October 30, 1980 [17:40 to 34:07] the Torrances move into the Overlook Hotel. Dick Hallorann, the hotel’s cook reveals to Danny that he too is telepathic and clairvoyant, but warns him to stay away from room 237 when Danny asks him about it. After a month Jack starts acting like an ass, while the phone lines are cut off by a storm. Danny goes into 237 and comes out injured. After Jack has a nightmare about killing his family, his wife Wendy blames him for the injuries to Danny. Danny says a woman in the room tried to kill him, but after Jack goes to the room and sees her, he tells Wendy he didn’t see anything. In Florida Hallorann has a warning vision about the Overlook, while Jack interacts with the ghostly guests at a party in the gold room. He has a conversation with Grady who Jack identifies as the caretaker who killed his family. Grady in turn tells Jack he and Jack have both always been at the hotel and that Danny is trying to bring in Hallorann, an outside force. Wendy becomes convinced Jack has flipped out and locks him up in a storeroom. Wendy and Danny are trapped at the hotel in a raging blizzard as Jack sabotaged their radio link and snowcat. Grady releases Jack from the storeroom. Jack goes after Wendy and Danny, who escapes out of the hotel through a window. The arrival of Hallorann saves Wendy, but Jack kills him. As Danny escapes into the hedge maze pursued by Jack, Wendy starts seeing visions of the ghosts who occupy the hotel. Wendy and Danny escape, while Jack freezes to death in the maze.
I may catch a lot of flack, but I think this film is vastly overrated. It is too slow and too muddled, while at the same time pretentious. It does a poor job of explaining the why and how of the characters actions and reactions, with too many plot loose ends.
The date is given in the film at 6:00
Producer - Stanley Kubrick
Director - Stanley Kubrick
Screenwriters - Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson
Runtime – 2 hours 24 minutes
Released – May 23, 1980
Starring – Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, Shelley Duvall as Wendy Torrance, Danny Lloyd as Danny Torrance and the voice of Tony, Scatman Crothers as Dick Hallorann, Barry Nelson as Stuart Ullman, Philip Stone as Delbert Grady, Joe Turkel as Lloyd, Tony Burton as Larry Durkin, Lia Beldam as Young Woman In Bath, Billie Gibson as Old Woman In Bath, Barry Dennen as Bill Watson, Lisa Burns as Grady Daughter #1 , Louise Burns as Grady Daughter #2, Anne Jackson as Doctor.
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015.
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