Revisited The Shining Tuesday night what with halloween just passing, I was in the mood. Like Celshaw I love horror films and this has got to be the most epic horror film of all time.

Based on a Stephen King novel and being directed by Stanley Kubrick, you can't really go wrong. And then throw in the guy that has the most insane face in the history of film, the one and only Jack Nicholson (one of my all time favourite actors, who also oddly reminds me of my dad). Scene is set in desolation, cut off from the world. Throw in the kid with the freaky imaginary friend voice "Redrum redrum!", spooky twins, and the head of your household becoming barking mad and trying to butcher you with an axe - what more could horror fans ask for!

Anyone else think this is the best horror film ever?

If memory serves me correctly, he was a cunt too, a whinging, moaning legless cunt. A perfect victim in waiting for a vicious chainsaw weilding killer. I was delighted when he got done in that film.

I found both of those films to be infinitely more scary than The Shining

I like The Fourth Kind too............until i found out that suspicions about it being genuine were correct

I am scared by strange faces and people who move oddly. The Exorcist and Carrie scared me so much that I refuse to watch them again. It is the devils face in the Exorcist that terrified me so much when I was 14 I had tp sleep with a light on for a few days and at the end of Carrie when you can see Jesus' head on the crucifix shining, its jut so odd and creepy. It is not the actual storyline, just the faces.

I have heard of the faces in the Grudge and Silent Hill and won't watch them. Also in The Exorism of Emily Rose when she is all tangled up in herself on the floor, that was horrible and I couldn't watch the rest!

I really like this.

Good film!!!!

Damn it! Same with Irreversible too grrrrrr......


Completely agree. And the soundtrack/music score as well.


See, this didn't freak me out at all. All joking aside, i have yet to see a rape scene in a film that actually turns my stomach...

Shame you can't get Irréversible on Love film - that's weird, cause I got that from love film about 6 months ago... have they removed it I wonder?

It says 'Currently Unavailable'......?! :-S

That bagheaded kid in it was pretty creepy.

That's a cool Halloween fancy dress costume!

May have to do it for next year. If I remember that is.

None of the three were scary to me.


Its not.
The studio admitted that the entire thing, the news reports and everything, was fabricated after someone did research and found that the news reports were faked.

Earlier in the year I stayed at the Stanley hotel in Colorado which was the inspiration for the film the Shining (Stephen King was staying there when he wrote the film). They didnt use the hotel in the film as at the time of filming there wasnt enough snow. There was a series called the Shining that was filmed in the hotel.
They do ghost tours there and have had several ghosthunting tv programmes filmed there. I went on the ghost tour, several people felt a presence in a couple of the rooms, one girl ran out of a room and was physically sick as she thought there was a presence in the room.
They even play the film the Shining 24hr's a day in the hotel rooms!!

I prefer Asian Horror Films, in my opinion they are better at fucking up with your head

Recommendations:

Battle Royal
A Tale of Two Sisters
The Eye 1 & 2
Phone
Doll Master
One Missed Call
Ichi The Killer
Lady Vengeance/Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Shutter
The Wig
Cello
Cinderella

Will add more later :)

It's cause they're some fucked up people...
I'm lookin' at you, Japan.


I've seen (and loved) 'The Uninvited', as this is the original, is it better?

Those were my suspicions lol

Oh, I see!
Lol, I misinterpreted, thought you meant you found out that it was actually genuine or something, haha.
I had a friend who was scared as hell by that movie because they were claiming it was all true and this friend is severely neilasparophobic (scared of aliens - the extraterrestrial kind, not the foreign country kind).

I can see how that film wudve fucked him up lol