The Shining is the Perfect Halloween Movie
October 31, 2016
The Shining is a classic horror movie filled with enough twists and scares to excite any audience watching it. Based on the Stephen King novel, The Shining is about Jack Torrance staying at the Overlook Hotel with his family as a winter caretaker to cure his writer’s block. It’s not until later that Jack develops cabin fever and starts terrorizing his own family in a hotel that’s in the middle of nowhere. With all of the creepy aspects of this movie’s plot, location, and acting, it makes for the perfect Halloween movie.
To start off, Jack Nicholson provides a fantastic performance and really shows off his talent as an actor. His performance is captivating, and it gives his character depth and made the storyline a little more complex. Watching his character go from completely normal to absolutely psychotic grasped my attention as an audience member. The way he portrays his character really pulls the whole movie together and sends actual shivers down one’s spine. He couldn’t have done it all by himself, though. All of the actors’ effort to portray their character just makes the movie ten times more enjoyable to watch.
The setting of the film really sets the mood for being spooked. Can’t get any creepier than a giant hotel in the middle of nowhere that was built on a Native American burial ground. Also, the snowfall is very heavy, making the chances of Wendy and Danny escaping at the end of the movie very slim. The hotel having various empty rooms added to the spooky vibes I got from the whole movie.
Overall, The Shining has a very unique and interesting plot with twists that come along the way with amazing performances from all actors. The setting, the story, and the acting really set the mood for Halloween. This movie really sets itself apart from other horror movies. Not only that, it’s also just a classic that everyone has to experience watching.
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Dana • Dec 15, 2016 at 6:19 pm
As with Gogol and even James Agйe, there is
occasionally confusion about the pronunciation of your last
name. How does one pronounce it correctly?
It is indeed a tricky name. It is often misspelt, because
the eye tends to regard the “a” of the first syllable as a
misprint and then tries to restore the symmetrical sequence by
triplicating the “o”– filling up the row of circles, so to
speak, as in a game of crosses and naughts. No-bow-cough. How
ugly, how wrong. Every author whose name is fairly often
mentioned in periodicals develops a bird-watcher’s or
caterpillar-picker’s knack when scanning an article. But in my
case I always get caught by the word “nobody” when capitalized
at the beginning of a sentence. As to pronunciation, Frenchmen
of course say Nabokoff, with the accent on the last
syllable. Englishmen say Nabokov, accent on the first,
and Italians say Nabokov, accent in the middle, as Russians
also do. Na-bo-kov. A heavy open “o” as in
“Knickerbocker”. My New England ear is not offended by the long
elegant middle “o” of Nabokov as delivered in American
academies. The awful “Na-bah-kov” is a despicable gutterism.
Well, you can make your choice now. Incidentallv, the first
name is pronounced Vladeemer– rhyming with “redeemer”– not
Vladimir rhyming with Faddimere (a place in England, I think).
adviser • Nov 22, 2016 at 12:37 pm
Shelley Duvall is an American treasure, especially in Altman’s films from the 1970’s.
Dana • Nov 7, 2016 at 10:26 pm
Finally some praise for Shelley Duvall :,)