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The Shining

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One of my relatively favored film that I watch continuously every Halloween season is the 1980

horror film The Shining. This movie consists of drama, horror, mystery and suspense, produced and

directed by the legendary Stanley Kubrick himself and novelist Stephen Edwin King. The Shining

focused on the broad strokes of the original Stephen King story, while the visuals, atmosphere, tone,

and sheer terror of the moments Stanley Kubrick caught on film were more than enough to scare most

people to the bone. That's the lasting impression that was left. The twins, the hotel itself and the way it

was shot, the isolation, the eerie transformation of Jack, the room 237, the blood pouring out of the

elevator and flooding the hall,

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