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The Shining (1980) -- A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
The Shining (1980) -- A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

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Réalisateur:
Stanley Kubrick
Writers:
Stephen King (novel)
Stanley Kubrick (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
23 mai 1980 (USA) suite
Genre:
Horror | Thriller suite
Accroche:
The tide of terror that swept America IS HERE[UK Poster] suite
Plot:
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 5 nominations suite
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Best Horror Film I've Ever Seen suite

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Additional Details

Autre(s) titre(s):
Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining'
L'enfant lumière (Canada: French title) [fr]
Shining (France) [fr]
Shining: L'enfant lumière (Canada: French title) [fr]
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Durée:
142 min (cut) | 119 min (cut) (European version) | 146 min (original version)
Pays:
UK | USA
Langue:
Anglais
Couleur:
Couleur
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 suite
Son:
Mono
Classification:
New Zealand:R16 | Spain:13 | Italy:VM14 (re-rating) | Italy:VM18 (original rating) | Finland:K-15 (DVD rating) | Iceland:16 | Portugal:M/16 | Canada:14A (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) (re-rating) (2007) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) (original rating) | Brazil:14 | Ireland:15 (re-rating) (2007) | UK:15 (re-rating) (2007) | Denmark:15 (DVD rating) | Denmark:16 (video rating) | Malaysia:U | UK:18 (video rating) (1986) | Argentina:18 | Australia:MA (DVD rating) | Australia:M | Canada:18+ (Québec) | Denmark:15 | Finland:K-18 | France:U | Hong Kong:III | Ireland:18 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:18 | Singapore:M18 | South Korea:(Banned) (original rating) | South Korea:18 (DVD rating) (2004) (uncut) | UK:X (original rating) | West Germany:16 | Philippines:X | Japan:R-15 | USA:R | Sweden:15
Emplacements De Pelliculage:
Colorado, USA suite
Company:
Hawk Films suite

Curiosités

Anecdotes:
All of the interior rooms of The Overlook Hotel were filmed at Elstree Studios in England, including The Colorado Lounge, where Jack does his typing. Because of the intense heat generated from the lighting used to recreate window sunlight (the room took 700,000 watts of light per window to make it look like a snowy day outside), the lounge set caught fire. Fortunately all of the scenes had been completed there, so the set was rebuilt with a higher ceiling, and the same area was eventually used by Steven Spielberg as the snake-filled Well of the Souls tomb in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). suite
Goofs:
Factual errors: The credits list the music for the movie as 'Bela Bartok''s "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste", recorded by 'Herbert Von Karajan' and the Berlin Philharmonic. The conductor and the orchestra are correct. But the piece was in fact a movement from Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique". suite
Guillemet:
[first lines]
Jack Torrance: Hi, I've got an appointment with Mr. Ullman. My name is Jack Torrance.
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Movie Connections:
Spoofed in "Daria: I Don't (#2.4)" (1998) suite
Soundtrack:
Lontano suite

foire aux questions

Is the film a direct adaptation of the book?
Why did Kubrick change room 217 in the novel to room 237 in the film?
Is it possible to read "The Shining" online?
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266 out of 321 people found the following comment useful:-
Best Horror Film I've Ever Seen, 27 August 2000
Author: us012862 de USA

When this film first came out in 1980, I remember going to see it on opening night. The sheer terror that I experienced in viewing "The Shining" was enough to make me go to bed with the lights turned ON every night for an entire summer. This movie just scared the life out of me, which is what still happens every time I rent the video for a re-watch. I have seen The Shining at least six or seven times, and I still believe it to be simultaneously and paradoxically one of the most frightening and yet funniest films I've ever seen. Frightening because of the extraordinarily effective use of long shots to create feelings of isolation, convex lens shots to enhance surrealism, and meticulously scored music to bring tension levels to virtually unbearable levels. And "funny" because of Jack Nicholson's outrageous and in many cases ad-libbed onscreen antics. It never ceases to amaze me how The Shining is actually two films in one, both a comedy AND a horror flick. Ghostly apparitions of a strikingly menacing nature haunt much of the first half of the film, which gradually evolve into ever more serious physical threats as time progresses. Be that as it may, there is surprisingly little violence given the apparent intensity, but that is little comfort for the feint of heart as much of the terror is more implied than manifest. The Shining is a truly frightening movie that works symbolically on many levels, but is basically about human shortcomings and the way they can be exploited by unconscious forces combined with weakness of will. This film scares the most just by using suggestion to turn your own imagination against you. The Shining is a brilliant cinematic masterpiece, the likes of which have never been seen before or since. Highly, highly recommended. - Paul

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