Scary movies # 2 - The Shining

Year: 1980 Director: Stanley Kubrick

At number two in our list of the scariest movies is The Shining. Here's Johnny!

The story of a writer Jack who gets a job caretaking, with his family, in an old hotel closed for the off season in the secluded mountains of Colarado. Jack begins to experience writers block, which gnaws away at him, and with the isolation fever biting he begins a descent into madness, with his family locked in the hotel alone with him.

The film pervades an atmosphere of underlying foreboding terror, in the story from thepen of horror writer supreme Stephen King. Both Nicholson and Duvall provide great performances of respective mania and abject terror. All that and superb cameo performance by the legendary Scatman Crothers (the voice of Hong Kong Phooey).

Click to read our full synopsis and review of The Shining.

We place The Shining at number 2 in our interactive Haunted House of Horror list of our favourite scary movies.

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