Stanley Kubrick likes tracking shots

Sure, The Shining is a scary film. But Kubrick adds a scare factor that I don't think I've ever seen before. Whether the scene is supposed to be scary or not, the movie doesn't go 5 minutes without a long tracking shot following one or more of the characters. There's the immensely popular tracking of Danny on the tricycle- we get to see what he sees when he sees it as he rounds the corners in the hallways. So when he stops and sees the twin girls, we're right there with him. The majority of the screen time when Jack is clambering after Danny with the axe is done with tracking shots to give the feeling of impending doom. Jack feels like this dark, unstoppable force right on Danny's heels.

The most fantastic scene, in my opinion, was Wendy's discovery of Jack's work. The scene begins with- you guessed it- a tracking shot of Wendy clutching her baseball bat, looking for Jack. As she approaches the typewriter, the camera goes to an extreme low angle right on the edge of the table so that we see Wendy looking nearly straight down at it. We then get to see what she's been staring at through her point of view shot- the creepy sentence, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," typed over and over again onto the pages. We see Wendy start to breathe heavily as she looks over and sees piles of the same thing. We experience her confusion from her point of view as she flips through the pages one by one, as if she's expecting something different to be written on the next page.

In comes Jack. He emerges from the darkness behind Wendy, and very calmly talks as he steps into the bright blue light coming from the tall windows. We see Wendy bathed in the light while Jack is silhouetted by it. As the scene progresses, Jack advances and Wendy backpedals towards the stairs. the camera switches between tracking shots of the two of them as they circle, bringing Jack's head into the window light. He seems to glow.

It gets better. As they are tracked up the stairs and Jack starts to spit about bashing Wendy's skull in, Jacks face slowly becomes bathed in red light, as if he's backing Wendy up into hell.