👻SAMANTHA'S SPOOKTOBER 👻 ↳ The Shining (1980) Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Top 10 Horror Films (as voted by my followers): #10 — The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick 🪓 Wendy? Darling? Light of my life. I’m not gonna hurt ya. You didn’t let me finish my sentence. I said, I’m not gonna hurt ya. I’m just going to bash your brains in! I’m gonna bash ‘em right the fuck in!
THE SHINING (1980)
“[…] horror is not, strictly speaking, induced by the thing itself: rather, horror takes effect when a viewer watches a viewer watching horror.” - Tony Perrello in “American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millenium.”
Come and play with us, Danny. Forever… and ever… and ever.
The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick
Wendy? Darling? Light of my life. I’m not gonna hurt ya. You didn’t let me finish my sentence. I said, I’m not gonna hurt ya. I’m just going to bash your brains in!
THE SHINING (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick
You’ve always been the caretaker. I should know sir. I’ve always been here.
The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick
Wendy? Darling? Light of my life. I’m not gonna hurt ya. You didn’t let me finish my sentence. I said, I’m not gonna hurt ya. I’m just going to bash your brains in!
The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick
Places are like people, some shine and some don’t. The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick
I dreamed that I killed you and Danny. But I didn’t just kill ya. I cut you up in little pieces. Oh my God. I must be losing my mind.
The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick
Six Iconic Quotes from The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick
Some places are like people: some shine and some don’t.
The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick
“Has Tony ever told you anything about this place? About the Overlook Hotel?”
This uninterrupted steady shot from Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece The Shining follows Danny as he explores the vast empty spaces of The Overlook hotel. Building a sense of suspense, the lack of cuts work to instill a sense of dread that the next corner could hold something terrifying. Not to mention the feeling that he’s being followed.