this have get to be the most stupid film i have ever see ( spoiler ahead ) . first of all and the plot be stupid . the little kid be weird and they move to a hotel because his father be the caretaker of it . we find that the kid have a gift and the shining . this gift never ever have anything to do with anything except to make the kid seem cool . then the movie get more boring and boring until the man finally go crazy . he go on a rampage to kill the kid and his wife because . well and he feel like it . why else would he do it . all of a sudden we see a naked woman in the tub . the man kiss her and realize he be kiss a dead corpse and which be utterly disgust . somehow a black man enter the hotel and be whack with an axe . then the kid and the woman take the black man vehicle and leave the father and who die within minute of hypothermia . most movie aren not a complete waste of time and but this fall right into that category . the music be trashy and the character be corny ( except jack nicholson and who be a good actor ) and the plot be twist and fit the description of vomit and the end be very predictable and the storyline be slow and tedious and and bore . this movie be extremely overrate . avoid this movie at all cost . i be surprise it get such a high rating on imdb .