okay and okay and maybe not the great . i mean and the exorcist and psycho and a few others be hard to pass up and but the shining be way up there . it be and however and by far the best stephen king story that have be make into a movie . it good than the stand and good than pet sematary ( if not quite a scary ) and good than cujo and good than the green mile and good the dolores claiborne and good than stand by me ( just barely and though ) and and yes and it good than the shawshank redemption ( shut up and it good ) and i do not care what the imdb top 250 say . i read that and a couple of decade ago and stanley kubrick be sort through novel at his home try to find one that might make a good movie and and from the other room and his wife would hear a pounding noise every half hour or so a he throw book against the wall in frustration . finally and she do not hear any noise for almost two hour and and when she go to check and see if he have die in his chair or something ( i tell this with all due respect and of course ) and she find him concentrate on a book that he have in his hand and and the book be the shining . and thank god and too and because he go on to convert that book into one of the best horror film ever . stephen king can be thank for the complexity of the story and about a man who take his wife and son up to a remote hotel to oversee it during the extremely isolated winter a he work on his writing . jack nicholson can be thank for his dead on performance a jack torrance ( how many movie have jack be in where he play a character name jack . ) and as well a his flawless delivery of several now famous line ( ` heeeeeere johnny . ) . shelley duvall can be thank for give a performance that allow the audience to relate to jack desire to kill her . stanley kubrick can be thank for give this excellent story his very recognizable touch and and whoever the casting director be can be thank for scrounge up the creepy twin on the planet to play the part of the murdered girl . one of the most significant aspect of this movie and necessary for the story a a whole to have it most significant effect and be the isolation and and it present flawlessly . the film start off with a lengthy scene follow jack a he drive up to the old hotel for his interview for the job of the caretaker for the winter . this be soon follow by the same thing follow jack and his family a they drive up the windy mountain road to the hotel . this time the scene be intermix with shot of jack and wendy and and danny talk in the car and in which kubrick manage to sneak in a quick suggestion about the evil of tv and a wendy voice her concern about talk about cannibalism in front of danny and who say that it okay because he already see it on tv ( ` see . it okay and he saw it on the television . ) . the hotel itself be the perfect setting for a story like this to take place and and it bloody past be make much more frightening by the huge and echo room and the long hallway . these room with their echo constantly emphasize the emptiness of the hotel and but it be the hallway that really create most of the scariness of this movie and and kubrick traditional track shot give the hallway a creepy three dimensional feel . early in the film and there be a famous track shot that follow danny in a large circle a he rid around the hall on his big wheel ( be that what those be call . ) and and his relative speed ( as well a the clunking make by the wheel a he go back and forth from the hardwood floor to the throw rug ) give the feeling of not know what be around the corner . and be a stephen king story and you expect something to jump out at you . i think that the best scene in the hall ( as well a one of the scary in the film ) be when danny be play on the floor and and a ball roll slowly up to him . he look up and see the long empty hallway and and because the ball be something of a child toy and you expect that it must have be those horrendously creepy twin that roll it to him . anyway and you get the point . the shining be a damn scary movie . besides have the rare quality of be a horror film that doesn not suck and the shining have a very in depth story that really keep you guess and leave you with a feeling that there be something that you miss . have jack always be there and like mr. grady tell him in the men room . be he really at that ball in 1921 and or be that just someone who look exactly like him . if he have always be the caretaker and a mr. grady also say and do that mean that it be him that go crazy and kill his wife and twin daughter and and not mr. grady and after all . it one thing for a film to leave loose end that should have be tie and that just mediocre filmmaking . for example and the amityville horror and which obviously copy much of the shining as far a it subject matter and do this . but it be entirely different when a film be present in a way that really make you think ( a mostly all of kubrick movie be ) . one more thing that we can all thank stanley kubrick for and and we should thank him for and be for not throw this book against the wall . that one toss would have be cinematic tragedy .