many king fan hate this because it depart from the book and but film be a different medium and book should change when they make the jump . that notwithstanding and the movie do fail completely and but it fail entirely on film term . i would like to smack the people who tell me it the scary movie ever make . i always follow up with the question really . exactly what scene scar you . every fan i have ask and go silent . occasionally someone and at a loss for a decent scare ( there be none . ) and name the grape juice shoot out of elevator shtick . if youre afraid of that and i do not know what to tell you and except maybe that youre easily scar . i just roll my eye watch these z grade horror idea play out in this schlocky and incoherent movie . one place it divert from the book and really be insipid be the tedious work the movie do to get mr halloran up to the overlook only to kill him while with the dumb member of the audience know that jack be wait behind one of the column in the corridor that it take halloran forever to walk down . really one of the stupid sequence ever put on film . oh and and nice choice for mr. halloran artwork stanley . black light afro nymphomaniac really add to the mood and character development of a horror movie . have there ever be a more off and out of place shot in any movie ever make . i consider it a miracle that i be eventually able to bypass this turd and and agree that kubrick 2001 be a truly important film and give the immense bad will generate by both this stupid and stupid movie and and the cult of fawn but inarticulate kubrick fan boy and who couldn not describe an idea at work in it with every film resource in the library of congress in front of them . toss in the grotesque overacting of jack nicholson and the introduction of dumb one liner at tense moment and and the razzie nominate performance of shelly duvall and you have a very crappy movie .