The Shining
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Directed by	Stanley Kubrick
Produced by	Stanley Kubrick Jan Harlan Martin Richards
Written by	Novel: Stephen King Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick Diane Johnson
Starring	Jack Nicholson Shelley Duvall Danny Lloyd Scatman Crothers
Music by	Wendy Carlos Rachel Elkind
Cinematography	John Alcott
Editing by	Ray Lovejoy
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	May 23, 1980
Running time	Original cut 146 min. Cut version 142 min. European cut 119 min.
Country	United States and United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$22 million
Gross revenue	$64,984,856
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The Shining is a 1980 horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. It is often regarded as one of the greatest and scariest horror films ever made. Kubrick co-wrote the screenplay with novelist Diane Johnson. The film stars Jack Nicholson as tormented writer Jack Torrance, Shelley Duvall as his wife, Wendy, and Danny Lloyd as their son, Danny. References to The Shining are prominent in U.S. popular culture, particularly in movies, TV shows and other visual media, as well as music.^[1][2][3][4] Shining or The Shining may refer to: In fiction: The Shining (novel), a novel by Stephen King The Shining (film), a 1980 Stanley Kubrick film adaptation of Kings novel The Shining (TV miniseries), a 1997 television mini-series also based on Kings novel In music: The Shining (band... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Kubrick redirects here. ... Jan Harlan is the brother of Christiane Kubrick, Stanley Kubricks widow. ... Martin Richards is a British computer scientist, best known for his development of the BCPL programming language, which is both the earliest major development in portable software, and the ancestor of the widely used C programming language. ... For other persons named Stephen King, see Stephen King (disambiguation). ... Kubrick redirects here. ... Diane Johnson is an American born novelist and essayist whose satirical novels often contain American heroines living abroad in contemporary France. ... John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937), known as Jack Nicholson, is a three time Academy Award-winning American actor internationally renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters. ... Shelley Alexis Duvall (born July 7, 1949) is an award winning American film and television actress. ... Danny Lloyd was a child actor best-known for his role as Daniel Torrence in Stanley Kubricks The Shining, with Jack Nicholson and Shelly Duvall. ... Benjamin Sherman Scatman Crothers (May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986) was an African-American actor, singer, dancer and musician. ... Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) is an American composer and electronic musician. ... Rachel Elkind produced the work of Wendy Carlos, such as Switched on Bach. ... John Alcott (1931-1986) was an Oscar winning cienmatographer best known for his four collaborations with director Stanley Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), for which he took over as lighting camerman from Geoffrey Unsworth in mid-shoot, A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), the film for which he... Ray Lovejoy was a film editor with over thirty years of experience in that field. ... “WB” redirects here. ... is the 143rd day of the year (144th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The year 1980 in film involved some significant events. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The year 1980 in film involved some significant events. ... “Horror Movie” redirects here. ... Kubrick redirects here. ... For other persons named Stephen King, see Stephen King (disambiguation). ... For other uses of this term, see Shining. ... While there is no agreement upon the greatest film of all time, it is possible to list films considered the greatest ever by a sizeable populace of the film-watching community in the English-speaking world. ... Diane Johnson is an American born novelist and essayist whose satirical novels often contain American heroines living abroad in contemporary France. ... John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937), known as Jack Nicholson, is a three time Academy Award-winning American actor internationally renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters. ... John Daniel Jack Torrance is a fictional character, the protagonist in the 1977 novel The Shining by Stephen King. ... Shelley Alexis Duvall (born July 7, 1949) is an award winning American film and television actress. ... Danny Lloyd was a child actor best-known for his role as Daniel Torrence in Stanley Kubricks The Shining, with Jack Nicholson and Shelly Duvall. ...

Plot

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The Overlook Hotel (Timberline Lodge).

Jack Torrance interviews for a job at the Overlook Hotel. It is at an isolated location and features a massive hedge maze. Jack plans to write his novel while working at the hotel. The hotel manager, Mr. Ullman, tactfully informs Jack that many years earlier the caretaker, Charles Grady, went crazy while performing the same job and brutally killed himself, along with his family. Jack's son, Danny, has an imaginary friend named Tony, he uses a strange voice to vocalize what Tony tells to him. While at home with his mother, Wendy, Tony warns Danny about the hotel. Wendy mentions to a doctor that Jack has had problems with alcohol, but he is currently sober. Jack gets the job and the family arrives at the hotel as it is being shut down for the season. Danny sees two girls for a few moments but they say nothing and exit. The head chef Dick Hallorann recognizes that Danny is telepathic. When alone with Danny, Hallorann explains that he has a gift, referring to this communication as "shining". He tells Danny that not only do people shine, but sometimes places also shine. Danny spontaneously asks about Room 237, but Hallorann sternly warns him not to go in the room. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Timberline Lodge in the summer. ... John Daniel Jack Torrance is a fictional character, the protagonist in the 1977 novel The Shining by Stephen King. ... The Overlook (Timberline Lodge) as seen in a still from Stanley Kubricks film The Shining In 1985 the day lodge ski center was built on the slope just foward toward the camera off the hotels front parking lot, obscuring the view seen here. ... he is the best in the world, some call him the junior jose, special 1 version 2 ... For other uses, see Imaginary Friend. ... Telepathy, from the Greek τῆλε, tele, remote; and πάθεια, patheia, to be effected by, describes the hypothetical transfer of information on thoughts or feelings between individuals by means other than the five classical senses. ...

The first month passes without incident, and much of the rest of the film happens within the next two weeks. The Torrances have a cozy suite of rooms and enjoy the serenity of the hotel and the surrounding mountains. Jack is busy typing in the spacious Colorado room, but he is quite irritable and guarded about his book and declares the room off-limits. He soon develops writer's block and grows steadily more frustrated and depressed. On Tuesday, Danny goes to room 237, but finds that the door is locked. On Thursday of the same week, while Wendy and Danny play in the snow, Jack starts to slowly become deranged. On Saturday, a storm knocks out the phone lines. Danny again sees the two girls, but this time he sees that they were murdered, although he does not know about the previous caretaker. Although Danny is terrified, Tony tells him that these visions are merely like pictures, so he does not tell his parents. Jack mainly keeps to himself, but at one point he talks with Danny, who asks Jack for assurances that he will never hurt Wendy or Danny. For other uses, see Writers block (disambiguation). ...

The rest of the film happens on the following Wednesday. Danny, wandering around the hotel, finds the door to room 237 again, this time however it is open and he enters. Immediately afterwards Jack has a terrible nightmare in which he uses an axe to chop Danny and Wendy to pieces, which he then recounts to Wendy. Soon Danny appears with his sweater ripped and bruises on his neck. Wendy angrily accuses Jack of abusing Danny and takes him back to their suite. Jack is furious about the accusation, and storms out of his room, making his way to the Gold Room. When he goes to the bar, he sees a bartender, who serves him a drink. A frantic Wendy enters to find Jack asleep at the bar. She says that Danny claims to have encountered "a crazy woman" in room 237. Wendy locks herself and Danny in their suite while Jack goes to investigate. He sees a naked and attractive woman in the bathtub. She steps out of the tub and they kiss, but then Jack sees her as a naked witch-like old woman with rotting skin. He escapes, locking the door. When Jack reports back to Wendy, he denies that anything is amiss in room 237. Wendy now wants to leave for Danny's sake, but they argue and Jack leaves to wander about the hotel. Jack returns to the Gold Room, which is now the scene of a posh 1920's style New Year's party. After getting another drink, he has a minor accident where advocaat is spilled on his jacket, and he goes with a butler to the bathroom to clean up. The butler introduces himself as Delbert Grady. Jack recognizes his name. Grady tells Jack that Danny has "a great talent" and is using it to bring an outsider — Dick Hallorann. Grady refers to how he "corrected" his family and advises Jack to do the same. For the song by Dave Matthews Band, see Bartender (song). ... Advocaat Advocaat (or advokatt) is a rich and creamy liqueur made from eggs, sugar and brandy. ...

At about the same time as Danny goes into Room 237, Hallorann, who is spending his winter in Florida, has a horrible vision of bloodshed related to the hotel. The vision is of an elevator door opening and a flood of blood pouring forth. This vision is later repeated several times to other characters. Dick tries to contact the Torrances and after finding no way to do so, he books the next flight back to Colorado. He is slowed by the storm, but he manages to borrow a snowcat and slowly drives up to the hotel that night. This article is about the U.S. State of Florida. ...

Wendy arms herself with a baseball bat and goes to talk to Jack about leaving. Jack is not in the Colorado room, but Wendy looks at the page in the typewriter. The page is just repetitions of a single sentence, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy". She then sees that Jack's entire manuscript is more of the same. Jack appears and asks: "How do you like it?", but Wendy is now terrified. Jack continues to taunt her and approach and threaten her. She hits him hard on the head with the bat and he falls down a flight of stairs, lying unconscious. Wendy drags Jack to the large pantry and locks him inside. Jack wakes up and it becomes clear that Jack has hurt his leg during the fall. Wendy now arms herself with a large kitchen knife. Jack tells her he has already sabotaged the radio, as well as the snowcat, stranding them all at the hotel. Wendy goes to confirm this. Four historically significant baseball bats showcased in the National Baseball Hall of Fames traveling exhibit Baseball As America. ... All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy is a proverb. ... A pantry is a room in a domestic house used for food storage. ... Pisten Bully 300 Polar snowcat moving snow A snowcat, is an enclosed-cab, truck sized, fully tracked vehicle designed to move on snow. ...

By the evening, still trapped in the pantry, Jack falls asleep on the floor. Roused by the sound of Grady's voice, Jack has another conversation with Grady, and the pantry door unlocks.

Jack leers through the broken door frame in an iconic shot.

Wendy and Danny have locked themselves in their suite. Danny, who since visiting Room 237 has only been speaking in Tony's voice, has been having visions of the word "redrum". While Wendy is asleep, Danny uses her lipstick to draw the word on the bathroom door. Danny then wakens Wendy, who sees the word in the mirror and recognizes its meaning: "murder" spelled backwards. At that moment, Jack arrives with an axe and starts to chop down the door to their suite. Wendy and Danny lock themselves in the bathroom. Danny is able to escape through the window but Wendy cannot fit through it. She grabs the knife and watches, horrified, as Jack starts to chop down the bathroom door. After chopping away one of the door panels, he sticks his hand through the gap to turn the lock. Wendy slashes his hand with the knife and he recoils. They then both hear the rumble of an approaching snowcat engine, as Hallorann arrives. Hallorann enters the hotel, but Jack soon ambushes him and kills him with the axe. Danny, hiding in a kitchen cabinet, cries out as Hallorann dies. Jack hears Danny's scream and searches for him. Limping and armed with his bloody axe, Jack pursues Danny as he climbs out of his hiding place. Image File history File links The_shining_heres_johnny. ... Image File history File links The_shining_heres_johnny. ...

Wendy starts to search the hotel and has several ghostly encounters during the search. Danny has run outside, so Jack turns on all of the outside lights, including the hedge maze. Jack then follows Danny into the snowy maze. Danny realizes he is leaving a trail of footprints in the snow for Jack to follow and he retraces his steps, then hides nearby in the labyrinth. When Jack arrives, he finds that Danny's footprints suddenly end, but he continues wandering and searching. Danny takes this opportunity to follow his own footprints back to the maze's entrance. Wendy makes her way out of the hotel just as Danny emerges from the maze. They get into the snowcat and drive away. Jack hears the engine start and then fade, realizing that he has lost, he sits down, exhausted. In the morning Jack is shown frozen to death.

The photograph on the hotel wall: Overlook Hotel, July 4th Ball, 1921. A young Jack stands smiling in the bottom center.

Just before the end credits, the audience sees a photograph of a lavish ball which had been hanging in the hotel the entire time. In the center of the picture is a young Jack; the caption reads: "Overlook Hotel, July 4th Ball, 1921". Image File history File links Overlook_hotel_1. ... Image File history File links Overlook_hotel_1. ...

Cast

• Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance
• Shelley Duvall as Winifred "Wendy" Torrance
• Danny Lloyd as Daniel "Danny" Torrance
• Scatman Crothers as Dick Hallorann
• Barry Nelson as Stuart Ullman
• Philip Stone as Delbert Grady
• Joe Turkel as Lloyd the Bartender
• Anne Jackson as Doctor
• Tony Burton as Larry Durkin
• Barry Dennen as Bill Watson
• Lisa Burns as Grady Twin #1
• Louise Burns as Grady Twin #2
• Vivian Kubrick (uncredited) as Smoking guest in ballroom

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Differences from the book

• The living topiary animals have been omitted and a hedge maze has been added. The maze plays a fairly critical role in the structure of the film plot. It acts as a refuge for Danny from Jack's pursuit of him, and as a final trap for Jack Torrance.

• In the novel, the motivation of the ghosts to possess Jack Torrance is to get him to kill Danny so that as a ghost they will have access to Danny's "shining" ability, thus making the ghosts far more powerful. In the film, the motive of the ghosts seems to be to reclaim Jack Torrance who is apparently a reincarnation of a previous caretaker of the hotel. However, this is merely suggested by the film which is ultimately ambiguous about the ghosts' motive.

• Although Danny has supernatural powers in both versions, the movie makes it clear that "Tony" really is an imaginary friend of Danny's, a projection of hidden parts of his own psyche. In the book, it is revealed that Danny Torrance's middle name is "Anthony". Thus, "Tony" is an alter-ego of Danny, not a separate supernatural entity.

• The book contains repeated references to Jack's alcoholism, whereas it is only briefly touched on in the film. Indeed, the book uses it as a metaphor for his lack of control over what is happening; Jack's mouth often becomes dry when he feels unable to deal with a situation. The book portrays him as a flawed character who is reluctant to embrace the hotel's evil forces but finally becomes overwhelmed by them; in the film, however, his madness often appears to be of his own volition.

• In the book, Jack attacks Hallorann but doesn't kill him; he helps Wendy and Danny escape after the hotel explodes with Jack inside. In the movie, Jack kills Hallorann with the axe shortly after he arrives and interrupts Jack's attack on his family.

• In both the movie and the book Jack is completely consumed by the evil of the Overlook. However, towards the end of the book the "real" Jack momentarily shows through to Danny in the third floor corridor when he says, "Doc, run away. Quick. And remember how much I love you." In the film version, nothing like this ever happens.

Cast notes

• Neither Lia Beldam (young woman in room 237), Billie Gibson (old woman in room 237) nor Lisa Burns and Louise Burns (Grady's murdered daughters) would appear in another movie after this one.
• On the DVD commentary by Garrett Brown and John Baxter, it was said that Kubrick was able to film all of Danny's parts without the young actor (Danny Lloyd) realizing he was in a horror movie.

Production

Filming took place at both Pinewood Studios and Elstree Studios in England. The set for the Overlook Hotel was then the largest ever built. It included a full recreation of the exterior of the hotel, as well as all of the interiors. A few exterior shots were done at Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood in Oregon. They are noticeable because the hedge maze is missing. The interiors are based on those of the Ahwahnee hotel in Yosemite National Park. The Timberline Lodge requested Kubrick change the sinister Room 217 of King's novel to 237, so customers would stay in their own room 217 fearlessly. The gatehouse at Pinewood Studios Pinewood Studios is a major British film studio situated in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire. ... Historically, the name Elstree Studios refers to any of several film studios that were based in the town of Elstree and Borehamwood in Hertfordshire, England. ... Set construction is a process by which a set designer works in collaboration with the director of the production to create the set for a theatrical production. ... Timberline Lodge in the summer. ... This article is about the tallest mountain in Oregon. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Ahwahnee Hotel The Ahwahnee is an enormous luxury hotel located in Yosemite National Park in a meadow on the floor of Yosemite Valley. ... Yosemite redirects here. ...

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The door that Jack breaks down with the axe near the end of the movie was a real door. Kubrick originally used a fake door, made of a weaker wood, but Jack Nicholson, who had worked as a volunteer fire marshal, tore it down too quickly. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

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Jack's line, "Heeeeere's Johnny!", is taken from the famous introduction for The Tonight Show host Johnny Carson, as spoken by Ed McMahon. The line was ad-libbed by Nicholson. Carson later used the Nicholson clip to open his 1980 Anniversary Show on NBC. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was a late-night talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under the Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. ... For other persons named John Carson, see John Carson (disambiguation). ... Edward Ed Peter Leo McMahon, Jr. ... See AdLib for the computer sound card manufacturer. ...

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The opening panorama shots (which were used by Ridley Scott for the closing moments of the original cut of the film Blade Runner) and all scenes of the Volkswagen Beetle on the road to the hotel were filmed in Glacier National Park in Montana. These scenes were filmed out of a helicopter, which can be seen briefly in the open matte version of the film in the lower right-hand corner of the screen and whose blades can be seen when first shown the exterior of the hotel. Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937 in South Shields, South Tyneside) is a British film director and producer. ... This article is about the 1982 film. ... This article is about the original Volkswagen Beetle. ... For the non-adjoining national park by the same name in British Columbia, see Glacier National Park (Canada). ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Open matte is similar to Super 35 in that it involves matting out the top and bottom of the frame for the theatrical release and removing the mattes for the home video release. ...

According to Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick called Stephen King during preproduction around 3 a.m. to ask "Aren't ghost stories really just an affirmation of an afterlife?" King did not necessarily agree. During the conversation, Kubrick asked flatly, "Do you believe in God?" King thought a minute and said, "Yeah, I think so." Kubrick replied, "No, I don't think there is a God", and hung up.^[5]

Making The Shining

Stanley Kubrick allowed his then-17-year-old daughter, Vivian, to make a documentary about the production of The Shining. Created originally for the BBC television show Arena, this documentary offers rare insight into the shooting process of a Kubrick film. Vivian Vanessa Kubrick (born August 5, 1960, in Los Angeles, California, USA) is a filmmaker and composer, best known for her work with her father, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. ... Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ... Arena is a British television documentary series, which has run in occasional seasons on BBC Two, and latterly BBC Four, since 1975, debuting on Wednesday October 1 that year. ...

The documentary, together with full-length commentary by Vivian Kubrick, is included on both DVD releases of The Shining.

Response

• The film opened to mixed reviews, but did very well commercially with audiences and made Warner Brothers a profit. For example, Variety staff criticized Kubrick for destroying all that was terrifying in Stephen King's novel.^[6] As with most Kubrick films, subsequent critical reaction reviews the film more favorably.

• Film website Rotten Tomatoes, which compiles reviews from a wide range of critics, gives the film a score of 85%.^[7] Stephen King has been quoted as saying that although Kubrick made a solid film with memorable imagery it was not a good adaptation of his novel.^{[citation needed]} He thought that his novel's important themes, such as the disintegration of the family and the dangers of alcoholism, were ignored. Kubrick made many other changes that King disparaged. King especially viewed the casting of Nicholson as a mistake and a tip-off to the audience (due to Nicholson's identification with the character of McMurphy in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest) that the character Jack would go mad.

• As noted by Roger Ebert:^[8]

• Ebert also notes in his review of the film that, whenever Jack sees or communicates with spirits, a mirror is always present, and, given the themes of madness and isolation, suggests he may be speaking with himself.

• King finally supervised a television adaptation of his original novel in 1997, which received lukewarm reviews.

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Versions

• There are several versions of The Shining. After its premiere and a week into the general run (with a running time of 146 minutes), Kubrick cut a scene at the end that took place in a hospital. The scene had Wendy in a bed talking with Mr. Ullman, the man who hired Jack at the beginning of the film. He explains that her husband's body could not be found, thus raising several questions and implications. This scene was subsequently physically cut out of prints by projectionists and sent back to the studio by order of Warner Bros., the film's distributor.

• The European version runs for 119 minutes due to Kubrick personally cutting 24 minutes from the film as mentioned above.^[9] Interestingly, many of the excised scenes in some way made reference to the outside world, usually with a television.

Music and soundtrack

The film features a brief electronic score by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind, including one major theme in addition to a main title based on Hector Berlioz' interpretation of the "Dies Irae", used in his "Symphonie Fantastique", as well as pieces of modernist music. The soundtrack LP was taken off the market due to licensing issues and has never appeared as a legitimate compact disc release. For the film itself, many of the pieces were overdubbed on top of one another.^[10] For other uses, see Electronic music (disambiguation). ... Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) is an American composer and electronic musician. ... Rachel Elkind produced the work of Wendy Carlos, such as Switched on Bach. ... Painting of Berlioz by Gustave Courbet, 1850. ... For other uses, see Dies Irae (disambiguation). ... Symphonie fantastique (Fantastic Symphony) Opus 14, is a symphony written by French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. ... In film formats, the soundtrack is the physical area of the film which records the synchronized sound. ... An LP Long playing (LP), either 10 or 12-inch diameter, 33 rpm (actually 33. ... CD redirects here. ... Overdubbing is a technique used by recording studios to add a supplementary recorded sound to a previously taped musical recording. ...

Carlos and Elkind had composed a great deal of music for the film, with the expectation that it would be used. However, Kubrick decided to go with classical music from other sources, as he has done on previous occasions. Some of Carlos' unused music appears on her album Rediscovering Lost Scores, Vol. 2.

The non-original music on the soundtrack is as follows:

1. Lontano by György Ligeti, Ernest Bour conducting Sinfonie Orchester des Südwestfunks (Wergo Records)
2. Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta by Béla Bartók, Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon)
3. Utrenja- excerpts from the 'Ewangelia' and 'Kanon Paschy' movements by Krzysztof Penderecki, Andrzej Markowski conducting Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic, Warsaw (Polskie Nagrania Records)
4. The Awakening of Jacob (Als Jakob Erwacht) and De Natura Sonoris No. 1 and 2, by Krzysztof Penderecki, the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer (EMI)
5. Home by Henry Hall and the Gleneagles Hotel Band (Columbia Records)
6. Midnight with the Stars and You by Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly and Harry Woods performed by the Ray Noble Band with Al Bowlly
7. It's All Forgotten Now performed by Al Bowlly.
8. Masquerade by Jack Hylton and His orchestra (not on the soundtrack album)

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Legacy

Over the years the film has become widely regarded as one of the greatest films of the horror genre and a staple of pop culture. In 2001, the film was ranked 29th on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills list and Jack Torrance was named the 25th greatest villain on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains list in 2003. It was named the all-time scariest film by Channel 4,^[11] Total Film labeled it the 5th greatest horror film, ^[12] and Bravo TV named one of the film's scenes 6th on their list of the 100 Scariest Movie Moments. In addition, film critics Kim Newman and Jonathan Romney both placed it in their top ten lists for the 2002 Sight and Sound poll. The film has been parodied a number of times, for example by The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror V" during the segment called "The Shinning". The 100 most heart-pounding American films as described by the AFI on the evening of June 12, 2001. ... // AFIs 100 Years. ... This article is about the British television station. ... Total Film, published by Future Publishing, is the United Kingdoms second best-selling film magazine, after the longer-established Empire from Emap. ... BRAVO TV is a German television program which aired from January 1985 till December 1986 on Sat. ... The 100 Scariest Movie Moments was a TV mini series first shown in late October of 2004 on Bravo TV. It was a countdown for the 100 most shocking moments in the history of movies, with interviews from horror experts or other celebrities who experienced the films on the list. ... Sight and Sound is a British monthly magazine about film. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... Treehouse of Horror V is the sixth episode of The Simpsons sixth season, which originally aired October 30, 1994. ...

References

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