The Shining
It's from 1980, before you were born.
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Genre
- Horror
- Star
- Jack Nicholson
- Released
- 1980
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About
As of 2026, it's 46 years old.
The Shining turned a snowed-in hotel into one of cinema's great nightmares, all gliding hallways, creepy twins, and a slowly unraveling Jack Nicholson grinning through a splintered door. Kubrick's meticulous, unsettling adaptation famously infuriated Stephen King and delighted everyone who loves being scared by very long corridors.
'Here's Johnny!', the elevator of blood, and Room 237 became permanent horror iconography, dissected by obsessives for decades.
Chilling, hypnotic, and endlessly analyzed, The Shining is the horror film where the haunted house is doing slightly less work than the man losing his mind inside it.
