For our October Film Club screening (all welcome by the way), we present Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece of modern horror, widely considered to be the most terrifying movie of all time.
Based on Stephen King's bestselling novel, this tale of family man and would-be writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) going mad as winter caretaker of the cursed Overlook Hotel in Colorado, is a seminal work of the genre. Hoping to cure his writer's block, Jack settles in along with his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and his son Danny (Danny Lloyd), who is plagued by psychic premonitions. As Jack's writing goes nowhere and Danny's visions become more disturbing, Jack discovers the hotel's dark secrets and begins to unravel into a homicidal maniac hell-bent on terrorizing his family. As Martin Scorsese has pointed out, ‘this is like no other horror film ever made, essentially unclassifiable, endlessly provocative and profoundly disturbing'.
USA/UK 1980 Stanley Kubrick 146m
