Introduction, who am I? Well I am glad you asked! I am a Uber Spencer, a 17 year old who was born and raised in the mid-west and have been a member of this wonderful Creepercast since mid to late 2013 and have loved every minute of it! I first came across Creepercast in 2012 when I listened to Episode 2 which was the Rob Zombie retrospective of House of 1000 Corpses, Devils Rejects and Halloween and H2. I loved the podcast from the beginning and it wasn't till after I sent in my first review which was Bad Kids go to Hell and sent in my 1st voice message that I started dwelling more into the podcast. So in closing please I cannot say this enough, read my reviews including...
THE SHINING!!
Ok ok ok!!! Finally I finished The
Shining and here is my official review
of the film!!
Plot: The Shining is a 1980
Psychological horror film directed by late director Stanley Kubrick
and starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall and Danny Lloyd. It is
based on a story by Stephan King (which I have read and love it and
the film!!) Now the film follows Jack Torrance (Nicholson), his wife
Wendy (Duvall) and their son Danny (Lloyd) as Jack gets a job as a
caretaker of the mysterious Overlook Hotel. In the book Jack is
portrayed as more as tragic hero and starts getting defeated but in
the film he is portrayed as an insane person and I think Jack
Nicholson portrays that perfectly!! The famous Here's Johnny scene
and the hallway scene with the twins are my absolutely favorite parts
of the film because I like the idea of having the camera follow Danny
as he rides his tricycle through the hotel and that sudden stop and
his face and the shot to the butchered twins is awesome! And the
ending and I am not going to spoil it but the ending is awesome!! I
actually did the Here's Johnny at my local Homeless shelter cause our
youth group was helping for a week clean and paint ext. and my
friends Ashlie, Angela and Hannah were coming around and there was a
little hole and I places my head and said HERE'S JOHNNY! And boy did
I scare Ashlie!! figured I'd put that in!
Positives: Growing up my mom never let
me watch the film but whenever it was on TV I would watch it and the
Here's Johnny scene was awesome to me!! I loved the camera angles in
the film and the creepiness of some scene's such as when Danny and
Wendy are walking and the camera pans towards Jack with that face
just made the hair stand up on my neck. There are different elements
that Stanly Kubrick put in the film that I loved for example the
tricycle scene, the way he filmed the scenes such as the blood coming
out of the elevator to the lady in the tub transiting from normal to
disgusting looking. The ending when Jack is chasing Danny through the
hedge maze made and always has made me cringe because I know SPOILER
Jack isn't going to get him but its in that moments when you think he
is but Danny overcomes odds and makes it out as Jack freezes to death
in the maze. I remember first watching the film and that ending scene
scared the crap out of me because the sick looking face on Jack is
truly terrifying!!
Negatives: No negatives
Conclusion: If you love Stephen King
books then you will love this film. Like I said I have read the book
and I loved it and I just found out that there is a sequel called
Doctor Sleep?!?! Buy this film or rent it and sit down in the pitch
black and prepare to get the crap scared out of you!!
I give The Shining from 1980 a perfect
5/5 stabs!!
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