A masterpiece of modern horror.
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
HorrorThrillerhotelchild abusebased on novel or bookisolationtelepathydelusionsnowstormcoloradoseclusionsurrealismwriter's blockalcoholism
- Harm to children
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Character
Contemplative, intimate, earnest and bleak.
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
Who loves it, who doesn't
109 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Thrill Chasers.
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Cast
- Jack NicholsonJack Torrance
- Shelley DuvallWendy Torrance
- Danny LloydDanny
- Scatman CrothersHallorann
- Barry NelsonUllman
- Philip StoneGrady
- Joe TurkelLloyd
- Anne JacksonDoctor
- Tony BurtonDurkin
- Lia BeldamYoung Woman in Bath
Crew
- Stanley KubrickDirector
- Diane JohnsonScreenplay
- Stanley KubrickScreenplay
- Stephen KingNovel
- John AlcottDirector of Photography
- Wendy CarlosOriginal Music Composer
- Rachel ElkindOriginal Music Composer
- Ray LovejoyEditor
- Stanley KubrickProducer
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Pairings
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Layers of Fear 201667% alikeGame · Both earnest, bleak, grave.
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