Movie: The Shining

The Shining will be shown on Thursday, October 24 at 7:00 PM. Adult tickets are $8 and student tickets are $4, plus Eventbrite fees.

This psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson is based on Stephen King’s 1977 novel of the same name and stars Jack Nicholson, Danny Lloyd, Shelley Duvall, and Scatman Crothers.

Nicholson plays Jack Torrance, a writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts a new position as the off-season caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. His young son Danny has psychic abilities (“the shining”), which he learns about from head chef Dick Hallorann. Danny’s imaginary friend Tony warns him the hotel is haunted before a winter storm leaves the family snowbound in the Colorado Rockies. Jack’s sanity deteriorates under the influence of the hotel and the residents, and Danny and his mother Wendy face mortal danger.

1980, Rated