The Shining: Trailer, certificate and where to watch
Jack Nicholson is brilliantly unsettling in Stanley Kubrick's take on the Stephen King story
Year: 1980
Certificate: 15
What more can be said about Stanley Kubrick's celebrated psychological horror? There has been so much discussion devoted to it since its release that a 2012 documentary, Room 237, set about unpicking the many interpretations offered by fans and critics in the decades since its release.
It is certainly a film that stands up to repeated viewing - the set design is a triumph, the tone a masterclass in tension and control, and Jack Nicholson's depiction of Jack Torrance's descent into madness still packs a door-splitting punch.
Based on a Stephen King novel, but disowned by the writer, this is obsessively Kubrick's vision, a film that ditches the trappings of your average horror movie to get inside your head every bit as much as the urge to kill gets into Jack's. (114 minutes)
