 A shining example of a stonking good film
Review of The Shining DVD by
sunmeilan
Advantages: The cinematography, the storyline, the acting, the direction...
Disadvantages: Not a single one in my opinion
...a job as caretaker at the Overlook Hotel during the winter months, when no-one can holiday there because of the weather conditions. He takes his wife, Wendy, and son, Danny, with him, despite the hotel manager's warnings that a caretaker had gone mad from loneliness one winter, murdering his wife and children before killing himself. The first few weeks are spent quite happily, although Danny has hallucinations of the past and the future, none of ...
...wasn't his father, it was the woman in room 237, although Jack claims that there is no-one in the room. As Jack's behaviour becomes more and more aggressive, Wendy begins to fear for her life and that of her son. Will any of them get out alive? I would imagine/hope that there are few people who haven't heard of The Shining. Based on the novel by Stephen King and directed by Stanley Kubrick, it was made back in 1980, and yet for me and many others, ...
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Projectile Green Vomit And And Daddy's Axe!
Review of Gruesome Twosome - The Exorcist/The Shining DVD by
bigush
Advantages: two classic horrors in one box
Disadvantages: no extras, if you care!
The first thing I thought when I saw this compilation was; 'What an arbitrary coupling of films!'. However, on reflection, maybe it is quite apt in some ways. They are certainly both iconic horror films. They both have reputations for scaring the socks off cinema audiences at the time they were made. They both have casts that include some of the best cinema actors to be found and were both somewhat groundbreaking in their direction and cinematic ...
...possession. Having said that, they tap very different sources of horror in us, sources that have almost been tapped dry since. In the case of 'The Exorcist' it is the shock and awe of demonic evil. With 'The Shining' it is the familiar becoming the dangerous.
The Exorcist (1973)
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Directed by William Friedkin, this is the story of the demonic possession of a little girl (Linda Blair) who is the daughter of an actress (Ellen Burstyn). ...
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