'The Shining'. Feelgood hit movie of the Summer.
Posted by Scottie on 19 July 2008 - 8:35am.
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Mary Poppins: the horror movie everyone's dying to see...
There are so many of these
Aside from 'Shining' and 'Must Love Jaws', this is my favourite:
This is one of the first and still the Best
Titanic 2 The Sequel
What's up?
No sound on embedded YouTube clips.
You might not have a few recent updates.
Or reboot.
Mine works ok.
Actually.....
The Shining is one of my favourite films of all time, and it gets better with each viewing, as more nuances unfold. The twin girls are perhaps the scariest thing on celluloid, and the barman is of the creepiest characters. OK, Jack underplays his role a little, it's true.
P.S. It really works best in old hotels in winter. I watched it once in the far north of scotland one year at 1 a.m. in a TV lounge, when all had gone to bed. Woo and, indeed, woo, as they used to say.
Hoary old film trivia
Scatman Crothers, who plays the head chef, was also the voice of Hong Kong Phooey, amongst many other things.
(Sorry, some pieces of trivia are involuntarily spewed out in a Pavlov's Dog type response to a keyword. As you were.)
Recut: also can make feelgood movies scary
good excuse to post this
An oldie but I like it.