Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining is one of the scariest movies in film history. The film is basically a puzzle with missing pieces. Throughout the movie the audience had to solve the puzzle, to understand mystery. For me, however, after finishing watching the movie I still had many questions left. This film followed an isolated family who were on the edge of sanity. Jack starts off as troubled writer and alcoholic, as the film progresses he starts sleeping in late and his behavior becomes completely unpredictable. In one scene, Jack yells at his wife for interrupting him while he is writing, he also talks to Lloyd in the bathroom, who is an imaginary bartender. Majority of the film is interpreted as hallucinations rather than spirits. There is elements of reality, but meanwhile theres a missing pieces in the character’s stories. Kubrick also did a great job with illustrating the characters rather than giving their backstories. For example, Jack is an alcoholic and hurts his child, Danny.
Many scenes in The Shining create suspense through the characters verbally interacting with each other, which results in them becoming mentally deranged. The most frightening and one of the most well-known scene in film history is the “Here’s Johnny” scene. Jack peers through a hole in the door which he made with an axe, he shouts to his wife wendy things like, “come out, come out, wherever you are” and the innocent/childish words he says creates suspense because of the strange choice of words he uses within the situation. This makes Jack appear insane, irrational and dangerous. The music also adds to the horror in this sign, there is a high pitched scratching of string instruments. Overall, this film is a tad bit confusing but is no doubt one of the most successful horror films in history.
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