Shelley Duvall stars in the 1980 classic horror The ShiningBack in 1980, Jack Nicholson starred in a career-defining movie adaptation of Stephen King’s 1977 novel The Shining.
Stanley Kubrick’s film may have been criticised, including by King, for differing much from the source material.
Yet that didn’t stop the picture from going down as one of the greatest horror movies ever made.
The story follows Nicholson’s Jack, a writer who accepts a position as caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in the remote Rocky Mountains during the off-season.
Yet when a snowstorm leaves him and the family isolated, Jack’s sanity begins to deteriorate as the building’s ghosts come out to play.
The Shining poster (Image: GETTY)
Upon its release, The Shining received mixed reviews and even controversial Razzie nominations for Worst Director and Worst Actress for Shelley Duvall, who died recently.
Yet in the years since its release, the horror film has been hailed as an all-time great and often appears in polls of the best movies ever made.
The Shining is streaming on BBC iPlayer for the next 29 days.
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