We’re perhaps amidst a renaissance in arthouse horror, and certainly the genre is quite healthy at the multiplex, but over thirty years on from when it was first released, few films inspire the kind of terror and dread that Stanley Kubrick conjured with “The Shining.” It’s an immaculately crafted film, deserving of the big screen experience, and for those across the pond, they’ll get to check back into The Overlook Hotel this Halloween when the film is re-released in the U.K.
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There’s not much more to say about this horror classic that hasn’t been said already. Jack Nicholson gives an iconic and truly unhinged turn, Shelley Duvall is scared out of her wits and that exhaustion you see on her face is partly from character, and partly from Kubrick’s exacting directorial methods. And this unfolds as Danny Lloyd takes through the empty halls of the hotel. If you’re a tinfoil hat type like the guys in the documentary “Room 237,” perhaps you see some deeper meaning in the film, but even at its most surface level, “The Shining” is truly terrifying.
Click here for all the screening dates and locations, and in case you’re wondering, it will be the full 144-minute U.S. version that be playing.