The Shining

“A masterpiece of modern horror.”

Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as winter caretaker of an isolated mountain hotel, bringing his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and his young son Danny (Danny Lloyd), who possesses a psychic gift. Snowed in for months with no other guests, Jack descends into a rage that fills the empty halls. Kubrick traps them all inside: the typewritten page reading the same sentence over and over, blood flooding from the elevator, Jack's face.