"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" -- or, rather, a homicidal boy in Stanley Kubrick's eerie 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel. With wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and psychic son Danny (Danny Lloyd) in tow, frustrated writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as the winter caretaker at the opulently ominous, mountain-locked Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. Before the Overlook is vacated for the Torrances, the manager (Barry Nelson) informs Jack that a previous caretaker went crazy and slaughtered his family; Jack thinks it's no problem, but Danny's "shining" hints otherwise. Settling into their routine, Danny cruises through the empty corridors on his Big Wheel and plays in the topiary maze with Wendy, while Jack sets up shop in a cavernous lounge with strict orders not to be disturbed. Danny's alter ego, "Tony," however, starts warning of "redrum" as Danny is plagued by more blood-soaked visions of the past, and a blocked Jack starts visiting the hotel bar for a few visions of his own. Frightened by her husband's behavior and Danny's visit to the forbidding Room 237, Wendy soon discovers what Jack has really been doing in his study all day, and what the hotel has done to Jack.

STARS.........: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd DIRECTOR......: Stanley Kubrick WRITERS.......: Stephen King (novel), Stanley Kubrick (screenplay) GENRE.........: Horror, Mystery METASCORE.....: 63 TOMATOMETER...: 87 IMDB RATING...: 8.4/10 692,486 votes IMDB LINK.....: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505 RUNTIME.......: 1h 59mn SIZE..........: 4.29GB VIDEO CODEC...: HEVC ([email protected]) BITRATE.......: 4500 Kbps (2 pass) RESOLUTION....: 1920x1080 ASPECT RATIO..: 1.77:1 FRAMERATE.....: 23.976 fps AUDIO1........: English E-AC3 5.1 512Kbps AUDIO2........: Commentary with Garrett Brown and John Baxter SUBTITLES.....: ENG, CHI, DUT, FIN, GER, ITA, JAP, KOR, POR, SPA CHAPTERS......: Yes SOURCE........: The.Shining.1980.BD25.UNTOUCHED.VIDEO.LPCM ENCODED BY....: Sartre ENCODE DATE...: 2017-12-19

"The 144 minute 'US version' is often erroneously called the Director's Cut when in fact director Kubrick regarded the 113 minute version as the superior cut of the film. When the film was released on home video in the US, Kubrick endorsed the shorter version of the film as the 'official' version. Nevertheless, the longer version is the version now most commonly available."

Extras

• Making "The Shining" • The Visions of Stanley Kubrick • View from the Overlook: Crafting "The Shining" • Wendy Carlos, Composer • Theatrical Trailer