The Shining

Why is it that nowadays the horror genre has gone soft, light, boring, why is that the masters of horror of many decades ago cannot re-invent the genre with originality, or even do a good adaptation from books, why is it that the horror genre has it was is not anymore today?!

The answer is simple, time; time took everything from an era which branded us with such relics from the masters of horror genre, such as John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Tobe Hoper, Dario Argento. It's amazing and disapointing that this moguls of the horror cinema have gone soft while producing bad quality pictures, what happened to movies like "The Thing", "Halloween", "Nightmare in Elm Street", "The Hills Have Eyes", "The Exorcist" or my favourite horror flick of all time "The Shinning". The 70's and 80's were the peek of the horror genre and as time went by, horror movies entered into the modern era of horror cinema making, new pupils beyond the chairs worked as directors to re-invent and ressucitate the horror genre, like the masters before them, but they didn't re.invented anything with their lack of originality, they only invented what was already invented, the new modern era of horror making is an updating of the past. Full of remakes, sequels and copycats of a past age of pure horror cinema making.

Let's put the best director in the world beyond cameras, an amazing adaptation screenplay from a horror novel writer aka Stephen King, Jack Nicholson and that's it, the most horrific, psychological horror thriller of all time.

The plot summary of the movie is at it follows: A man, his wife and his son, move to an hotel in Colorado during the winter to became the caretakers of the hotel in that period. The father played masterfully by Jack Nicholson takes the time while in the hotel to write his novel, but while in the hotel is son starts to see horrific and disturbing, violent visions of what previously happened there, this gift his son have is called "The Shinning". As time goes by Jack - the character portrayed by Jack Nicholson begins to slowly passing from the thin line of sanity to the obscure line of insanity. The effect of cabin fever and loneliness strikes Jack. He starts to see ghosts and worse, talks to them. One day a ghost convinces him to take care or correct his family has they are needing it. Danny the son and his mother have only one chance to escape from the insanity of the father - "The Shinning".

Stanley Kubrick was a master in all the movies he made, and this one is no exception. Kubrick was known as a perfeccionist. His movies, independently of it's genre were always as real, completly detailed and portrayed as he wanted and for me it was one of the best people who could make us experience THE cinema magic in the making. The movie is beautifuly filmed, the production, directing and the sets design are masterfuly well done. Jack Nicholson is amazing as a recovering alcoholic, insane father and husband. It's a perfect movie for the horror genre as it was. It's mandatory for those who never watched it. Enjoy and i'll be back again this month with the review of another genre, Sci-Fi (Aliens).
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