This film has a 86%
percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" --
or, rather, a homicidal boy in Stanley Kubrick's eerie 1980 adaptation of
Stephen King's horror novel. With wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and psychic son
Danny (Danny Lloyd) in tow, frustrated writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson)
takes a job as the winter caretaker at the opulently ominous, mountain-locked
Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. Danny's alter ego,
"Tony," however, starts warning of "redrum" as Danny is
plagued by more blood-soaked visions of the past, and a blocked Jack starts
visiting the hotel bar for a few visions of his own. Frightened by her
husband's behavior and Danny's visit to the forbidding Room 237, Wendy soon
discovers what Jack has really been doing in his study all day, and what the
hotel has done to Jack.