Screening
The Shining

Part of Hotels on Film
Sunday, March 9, 2014, 7:00 p.m.

Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1980, 144 mins. 35mm. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd. Rivers of blood spew from an elevator. The ghosts of two girls beckon in a hallway. An axe blasts through a bathroom wall to get at the terrified woman inside. With one macabre image after another, Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s tale of a caretaker driven mad in a cavernous hotel during an isolated Colorado winter is a landmark of art horror. A visionary child is pitted against a murderous father, but the real protagonist of Kubrick’s horror masterpiece is the haunted resort hotel.

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