The Shining. 1980.
Stephen King can be easily thanked for writing such a great book based on a hotel with a disturbing past and Stanley Kubrick bringing the novel to the screen in his own way. Jack Nicholson and the late Shelley Duvall somehow manage to create a near perfect married home with Danny Lloyd to stay in a hotel for the winter season and then a slow descent into madness happens, that makes one person snap and go berserk with nowhere to run and hide outside. Beautiful camera work, incredible visuals, that opening is iconic. So many incredible, visual moments, the twins, the lift with the blood and the ghostly barman Joe Turkel made this a classic.
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