This creepy movie, released in 1980, is based on a Stephen King novel.
Some of the images from this classic horror movie have become infamous throughout society, such as the image of Nicholson’s deranged face poking through a hole that he’s hacked in the door using an axe.
You won’t get these images out of your mind in a hurry, so don’t expect to sleep well after watching this movie. The parts of the movie that are designed to shock the audience are not half as scary as witnessing Jack’s slow descent into madness.
In a series of chilling conversations with other employees at the hotel, the audience slowly begins to realize just how disturbed Jack has become.
The viewer is left to decide whether the other characters were ghostly apparitions or simply figments of Jack’s twisted imagination. Jack Nicholson gave a career defining performance in this classic horror that is one of the main reasons for the movie’s success.
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Stanley Kubrick took on the role of directing and producing this wonderfully scary piece of movie history.