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Duration: 169 sec. | Nudity: yes | Creator: Ruffah |
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Lia Beldam is known for her role as Wendy Torrance, wife of Jack and mother to Danny, in the 1980 film 'Shining'. The story follows their family's move to the Overlook Hotel where Jack takes up a job as caretaker during the off-season. However, Jack begins experiencing writer's block and eventually succumbs to madness due to the hotel's eerie influence. Wendy and Danny must then face the horrors of the Overlook Hotel together.
Release Year: 1980
Nation: United Kingdom, United States of America
Alternative Title: Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, El resplandor, Сияние, Isijavanje, Сиянието, Hiilgus, Hohto, I lampsi, L'enfant lumière, La resplendor, Lsnienie, O Iluminado, Ondskabens hotel, Ondskapens hotell, Ragyogás, Stralucirea, Surmahotell, Svytejimas
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Diane Johnson, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King
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Companies: Hawk Films, Peregrine, The Producer Circle Co., Warner Bros. Pictures
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Awards: N/A
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Keywords: afi, alcoholic, alcoholism, antagonistic, anxious, avant garde, based on novel or book, blizzard, bloody body of child, burial ground, cabin fever, caretaker, child abuse, colorado, deal with the devil, delusion, domestic violence, dreary, extrasensory perception, filicide, ghost child, halloween, haunted hotel, hotel, hypothermia, identical twins, isolation, labyrinth, loneliness, malicious, mother son relationship, motherhood, mutilation, new year, new year's eve, new year's party, nuclear family, paranoid, pediatrician, postmodern, premonition, psychic power, psychological disintegration, psychological horror, psychological thriller, psychotronic film, repetition, seclusion, snowed in, snowstorm, supernatural horror, supernatural power, surrealism, suspenseful, telepathy, twin sisters, twins, uxoricide, vision, writer, writers-block
Jack Torrance takes a job as the winter caretaker at the grand Overlook Hotel in Colorado with his wife Wendy and their son Danny. The hotel's past is shrouded in mystery and it soon becomes clear that the hotel has an influence over them. Danny begins experiencing supernatural occurrences, seeing visions of a ghostly twin girl who introduces herself as 'Tony'. Jack starts suffering from writer's block and grows increasingly antagonistic towards his family due to cabin fever and his growing obsession with the hotel's past glories.
Directed by Stanley Kubrick, 'Shining' is a psychological horror film based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. The story follows the disintegration of the Torrance family during their isolation in the Overlook Hotel over one winter. Despite being set within the horror genre, the movie is known for its atmospheric tension and slow build-up of terror rather than graphic violence or jump scares. It explores themes of mental illness, alcoholism, domestic abuse, and psychological disintegration.