Special Halloween Film Screening:

The Shining
(Stanley Kubrick, 1980, USA, 142 mins, English, Color, BluRay)

--Introduced by Prof. Michael Morton, German Dept.

The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, co-written with novelist Diane Johnson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, and Danny Lloyd. The film is based on the Stephen King novel, The Shining.

A writer, Jack Torrance, takes a job as an off-season caretaker at an isolated hotel. His young son possesses psychic abilities and is able to see things from the past and future, such as the ghosts who inhabit the hotel. Soon after settling in, the family is trapped in the hotel by a snowstorm, and Jack gradually becomes influenced by a supernatural presence; he descends into madness and attempts to murder his wife and son.

Although initial response to the film was mixed, later critical assessment was more favorable and it is now listed among the greatest horror movies, while some have even viewed it as one of the greatest films of all time. Film director Martin Scorsese, writing in The Daily Beast, ranked it as one of the 11 scariest horror movies of all time.

-- "Kubrick has made a movie that will have to be reckoned with on the highest level." (TIME magazine)

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), with support from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.