The Shining. You get to see a young, charming Jack Torrance turn into a sadistic nutcase with one thing on his mind, redrum. There is nothing like being cooped up in a hotel with nobody but your family and a typewriter to keep you company for five months. An amazing performance by Jack Nicholson coupled with an eerie soundtrack will keep you interested (sort of) and guessing (sort of). Shelly Duvall’s gigantic horse teeth and enormous bulging eyes will have you wondering if the co-star is an actress or Mr. Ed. But in all fairness, she does seem to have a good heart (as witnessed by how hard she tries to prevent her husband from killing their son with an ax). I think that she studied crying in actor-college, because she spends the better part of the last half of the movie crying, and she never seems to get tired of it. And do you remember the part where Shelly Duvall is trying to find her son in the hotel and she sees this guy in a bear suit with his butt hanging out having relations with another guy in a suit? What the deuce was that all about? And do Shelly Duvall’s eyes seem to get bigger and wider as the end scene plays out? I mean it’s seriously like a cartoon. All in all, for the reasons laid out previously, we have decided to give this movie an 8.1 out of 10 stars.
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