The Shining: Review By OhTheFilmNerd

Jack Nicolson gives it all he's actually got in this horror piece, that I will class as a masterpiece, but why?

Well read the following review.

Jack plays, Jack an author who basically checks into a secluded hotel in the winter season, so him and his family and the chef are the only living things on that mountain, high up.

But trouble seems to seep into these individual characters, as is the hotel under some curse.

Jack is an author, trying to find solace and peace, but soon being solitude t is too much, and he rapidly changes.

Well when I say he rapidly changes this is a flying guess, because as soon as the picture starts your dragged in, not summing up the main leads personal characteristics and charm or what not or back story that much, so truly from the beginning Jack was eerie and odd, same throughout, but we see no transition from good-to evil, but that is the plot summery basically.

A man is crazied, turned into a fruit loop, out to murder his son, Danny (Danny Lloyd a talented young man whose charisma and pure innocence brings a sense of dread and fear for the fait of this child.).

Duvall who plays his wife in features and looks is odd herself, and carries that around all through the film, as this is the films flaws, we don't see how much their actual life is changed and how itr has effected them mentally, as she is stock still and robotic from beginning to end.

We need a surge of what they were like, possible that they were happy, then from a happy family (sweet music, lad de dar) to cruel gruelling, why is this happening to us? Down cast family. But you have to take a chance and make all that stuff up for yourself, take a flying leap.

But overall this film is filmed like no other 80s horror film, the camera always in motion, its slicked apprehensive the way the camera movements change the scene, also the sequence of the camera following the boy on his tricycle is purely great, seeing the scope and fell and vastness of the place.

The horror is built up on Jacks performance, the jump scenes don't do much, but this film looks within the mind, and while watching the sequence when Nicolson's character is first talking to the bartender that he has built up within his mind, his physicality reminded me of Heath Ledgers joker.

The head movements, the looks, the eye movements, the roll of the tongue, the speech, the drawn out creepiness.

The music is what put me off, music in the 80's lets be honest was too screech worthy, hardly any orchestral music, it was poorly recorded, but thank god the digital days are hear, and far better musicians.

Music is everything to a film, it gives it a sense of depth and emotion.

The gore is standard.

Stanley Kubrick is a master director, passionate, fun loving.

Overall This Film Is A Truly Huge Spectacle Of A Film. The Eeriness, The Creepy Sensibility, The Way The Camera Moves, The Way The Film Is Captured, This Shows How Horror/Actual Films Changed Through The Decades. A Performance To Thrill, And Maybe Terrify. One Of The Best Horror Pieces To Date.

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