The Shining

10/10 | A+ The prime psychological horror experience. Almost nothing evokes the same feeling as the haunting score and these empty halls.  The first time I watched this movie I highly enjoyed it but didn’t absorb it as well as I could’ve. I thought the dialogue was great but it wasn’t THAT scary. And then it marinated. And marinated. And marinated. And marinated. And became terrifying.  That’s the type of movie this is, it stays in your brain. It haunts you. You ask questions. What’s the with the bear? Who or what let him out of the freezer? What’s the deal with the woman in Room 237? Is the hotel haunted by the ghosts of dead natives which had their tapestry hung on the wall just to have Jack bounce a ball off of it or Danny rolling over it? Or is it something else? Was Jack ACTUALLY the caretaker the entire time? Why was he in the picture?  But sometimes Kubrick doesn’t deliver the linear. The linear isn’t scary. The linear is constant. Unchanging. The linear doesn’t deliver 2001: a Space Odyssey. The linear doesn’t deliver this. That’s why I love this movie. It is an experience one can try to rip apart logically. But ultimately, the fear of the unknown will always be more scary.