The Shining
For this domestic nightmare, Stanley Kubrick took a Stephen King best seller and infused it with his own demons and obsessions, creating a tour de force of dreamlike dread and disturbing ambiguity. Sequestered for the winter at the snowbound Overlook Hotel, a frustrated writer (Jack Nicholson), his increasingly fearful wife (Shelley Duvall), and their psychic son (Danny Lloyd) are plunged into a vortex of madness and violence—a psychosis that seems to emanate from the haunted, labyrinthine corridors of the building itself. Channeling historical trauma and contemporary anxieties about failed masculinity into images of surreal, subliminal power, Kubrick constructs a maelstrom of psychological terror that stands as one of the most endlessly analyzed horror films ever made.
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Cast
- 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
- Billie Gibson
- Old woman in bath
- Barry Dennen
- Watson
- David Baxt
- Forest ranger
- Manning Redwood
- Forest ranger
- Lisa Burns
- Grady daughter
- Louise Burns
- Grady daughter
- Robin Pappas
- Nurse
- Alison Coleridge
- Secretary
- Burnell Tucker
- Policeman
- Jana Sheldon
- Stewardess
- Kate Phelps
- Receptionist
- Norman Gay
- Injured guest
Credits
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Produced by
- Stanley Kubrick
- Executive producer
- Jan Harlan
- Screenplay by
- Stanley Kubrick
- Screenplay by
- Diane Johnson
- Based on the novel The Shining by
- Stephen King
- Director of photography
- John Alcott
- Production designer
- Roy Walker
- Editor
- Ray Lovejoy
- Production manager
- Douglas Twiddy
- Assistant director
- Brian Cook
- Costume designer
- Milena Canonero
- Steadicam operator
- Garrett Brown
- Helicopter photography
- MacGillivray Freeman Films
- Personal assistant to the director
- Leon Vitali
- Assistant to the producer
- Andros Epaminondas
- Art director
- Les Tomkins
- Makeup
- Tom Smith
- Camera operator
- Kelvin Pike
- Camera operator
- James Devis
- First unit focus and lighting
- Douglas Milsome
- Second unit photography
- Douglas Milsome
- Second unit photography
- MacGillivray Freeman Films
- Assistant director
- Terry Needham
- Assistant director
- Michael Stevenson
- Casting
- James Liggat
- Location research
- Jan Schlubach
- Location research
- Katharina Kubrick
- Location research
- Murray Close
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