Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Direction
Kubrick's obsessive symmetry weaponizes architecture as dread.
Cinematography
Steadicam invention turned hallways into psychological traps.
Acting
Nicholson's controlled escalation into complete dissolution.
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Jack Nicholson
Jack Torrance
Shelley Duvall
Wendy Torrance
Danny Lloyd
Danny
Scatman Crothers
Hallorann
Barry Nelson
Ullman
Philip Stone
Grady
Joe Turkel
Lloyd
Anne Jackson
Doctor
Tony Burton
Durkin
Lia Beldam
Young Woman in Bath
Barry Dennen
Watson
David Baxt
Forest Ranger 1
Manning Redwood
Forest Ranger 2
Lisa Burns
Grady Daughter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kubrick made Shelley Duvall do 127 takes of the baseball bat scene—Guinness record for most retakes.
Stephen King famously despises this adaptation; he made his own miniseries that everyone forgets.
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