The Shining (15) - 45th Anniversary

From its iconic opening tracking shot – following a car winding its way slowly up into the Rocky Mountains – Stanley Kubrick’s timeless, endlessly enigmatic horror film is a chilling flight into madness and domestic terror, starring Jack Nicholson in one of his signature roles as Jack Torrance, a writer and recovering alcoholic. 

When Jack takes a job as winter caretaker at the remote Outlook Hotel, he, his wife (Shelley Duvall), and their psychic young son (Danny Lloyd) find themselves at the mercy of a sinister force that gradually drives the increasingly troubled Jack over the edge.

Kubrick’s ghostly time warp of madness and murder is an undeniable contemporary classic, a haunting chiller full of indelible images that simply must be seen on the big screen.