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Stanley Kubrick
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Essential Collection - 1980
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Shining, The

(1980)
277 reviews
Film rated 4.3 / 5  (Chick rating: 4.3 / 5)  (Guy rating: 4.3 / 5)
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Kubrick's Steadicam horror show.
randall 
  Vote (3)   
Wife batters psychotic husband.
AC 
  Vote (1)   
Torrance axes wife, 'why?'.
BaftaBaby 
  Vote (3)   
Shock Corridor, Kubrick's version.
BaftaBaby 
  Vote (3)   
Jack chops writer's block.
BaftaBaby 
  Vote (6)   
Kubrick's corridors of blood.
lemmycaution 
  Vote (8)   
Jack's axe not dull!
lemmycaution 
  Vote (3)   
Johnny has writer's block.
thefoxboy 
  Vote (8)   
Shelley Winters In Colorado.
Whippersnapper. 
  Vote (3)   
Hotel room service axed.
Whippersnapper. 
  Vote (12)   
Jack's frozen over, look.
Whippersnapper. 
  Vote (8)   
Jack revisits old haunt.
Whippersnapper. 
  Vote    
Duvall jeopardy.
Whippersnapper. 
  Vote (5)   
Shelley shakes like jelly.
Whippersnapper. 
  Vote (7)   
Nicholson's "Best Axer" performance.
Whippersnapper. 
  Vote (1)   
A real-axing winter break.
Whippersnapper. 
  Vote (10)   
Jack starts axing funny.
Whippersnapper. 
  Vote (18)   
Jack stalks snow-covered labyrinth.
Please Kill Me Now 
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'Nigger cook' gets axed.
Please Kill Me Now 
  Vote    
Bathing beauty becomes hag.
Please Kill Me Now 
  Vote    
Jack gets cabin fever.
Please Kill Me Now 
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Jack chews Overlook Hotel.
Please Kill Me Now 
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Jack wields the axe.
Please Kill Me Now 
  Vote    
'Redrum' in Room 237.
Please Kill Me Now 
  Vote    
Jack gets writer's block.
Please Kill Me Now 
  Vote    
Topiary maze confuses Jack.
Please Kill Me Now 
  Vote    
Kubrick's haunted hotel movie.
Please Kill Me Now 
  Vote    
Kubrick makes Jack dull.
Please Kill Me Now 
  Vote    
Heeere's... Jack's worst performance!
Please Kill Me Now 
  Vote    
Jack terrorizes his family.
Please Kill Me Now 
  Vote    
Jack: husband from hell.
Please Kill Me Now 
  Vote    
Elevator overflows with blood.
Please Kill Me Now 
  Vote    
Kubrick scuttles King's ending.
Please Kill Me Now 
  Vote    
Jack has rage issues.
Please Kill Me Now 
  Vote    
Steadicam follows Danny's tricycle.
Please Kill Me Now 
  Vote    
Tricycle: carpet... hardwood... carpet....
Please Kill Me Now 
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Kubrick's unscary horror pastiche.
Please Kill Me Now 
  Vote    
Axe sharp, Jack dull.
Please Kill Me Now 
  Vote    
You don't 'no' Jack!
Larry 
  Vote (7)   
Nicholson falls over backwords.
Larry 
  Vote (10)   
Jack's a mazed.
Canklefish 
  Vote (15)   
Jack butchers house-sitting gig.
Canklefish 
  Vote (1)   
Who's dull? Don't ax!
Sludge 
  Vote (1)   
Bedlam 'n' Redrum.
Sludge 
  Vote (1)   
Jack and the Scatman.
Sludge 
  Vote (5)   
Scatman? Anglo's ax on.
Sludge 
  Vote (1)   
Nicholson. Total axe hole.
Sludge 
  Vote (6)   
Angry Hall.
Sludge 
  Vote (3)   
Jack buries the hatchet.
Sludge 
  Vote (9)   
Jack orders cold, red.
Sludge 
  Vote (5)   
Lumbering lumberJack becomes slumberJack.
noncentz 
  Vote (6)   
Boredom is not scary.
noncentz 
  Vote (5)   
Johnny's presence announced.
Josh the cat 
  Vote (17)   
Grady: Stone cold killer.
demonic 
  Vote (12)   
Grady's twins stand, corrected.
demonic 
  Vote (15)   
Twins torment trike tyke.
Rovark 
  Vote (6)   
Spirits inhabit writer's block.
Rovark 
  Vote (5)   
237 scarier than 101.
Rovark 
  Vote (16)   
Murdered moppets haunt hallways.
Rovark 
  Vote    
Jack's infidelity reflects badly.
Rovark 
  Vote    
Cold Jack on ice.
MguyX 
  Vote (6)   
Overlook has overlooked guests.
Montgomery 
  Vote (6)   
Psychic kid, also dyslexic.
Montgomery 
  Vote (25)   
Dead twins want playmate.
Montgomery 
  Vote (4)   
Writer's block causes killing.
Montgomery 
  Vote (1)   
Jack does hotel remodeling.
Montgomery 
  Vote (4)   
Room 237. Don't disturb.
Montgomery 
  Vote (2)   
Lloyd lures lunatic lush.
Montgomery 
  Vote (2)   
Jack --caretaker taking lives.
Montgomery 
  Vote (2)   
Shelley frightened by 'Johnny'.
Montgomery 
  Vote    
Dull boy. Sharp axe.
Montgomery 
  Vote (9)   
Food storage, rotten husband.
Montgomery 
  Vote (1)   
Son's finger freaks Shelley.
Montgomery 
  Vote (3)   
Mrs. Torrence needs divorce.
Montgomery 
  Vote (1)   
Novel = One sentence, repeated.
Montgomery 
  Vote (7)   
Splatman Crothers.
Montgomery 
  Vote (8)   
Jack writes 'dull' novel.
Montgomery 
  Vote (3)   
Cabin fever in hotel.
Montgomery 
  Vote (2)   
Nicholson Overlooks haunted hotel.
Tori 
  Vote    
Kubrick's haunted hotel story.
Tori 
  Vote    
Johnny Carson meets 'Psycho'.
Conan The Westy 
  Vote (3)   
Jackie's back, Scatman whacked.
w22dheartlivie 
  Vote (20)   
Alcoholic dad enjoys redRUM.
Yukon 
  Vote (1)   
Axed-man Crothers.
Yukon 
  Vote (11)   
Jack should've 'Overlook-ed' hotel.
Yukon 
  Vote (22)   
Jack- dull. Axe- sharp.
Yukon 
  Vote (1)   
Bartender ghost lifts spirits.
Yukon 
  Vote (9)   
Elevator's flood of blood.
Yukon 
  Vote (7)   
Nicholson: Cold-hearted killer.
Yukon 
  Vote (2)   
Carson greeting scares Shelley.
Yukon 
  Vote (2)   
Nicholson's novel very repetitive.
Yukon 
  Vote (16)   
Dyslexic son misspells murder.
Yukon 
  Vote (10)   
Danny's Shining predicts darkness.
ChocolateLady 
  Vote (6)   
Scatman takes fruitless journey.
Beanmimo 
  Vote (3)   
Spirits influence Jack's axe.
Cheese_Ed 
  Vote (10)   
Jack loses plot, family.
MelissaS 
  Vote    
McMurphy as hotelier.
MelissaS 
  Vote (2)   
Jack cracks, wields axe.
Alan Smithee 
  Vote (12)   
Five-star cabin fever.
clay 
  Vote (5)   
Stanley's rubric. Jack's torrents.
clay 
  Vote (4)   
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