i be never a big fan of horror movie . they usually try cheap trick to scare their audience like loud noise and creepy child . they usually lack originality and contain overact galore . the only horror movie i like be stir of echo with kevin bacon . it be well act and and have a great story . but it have be join and maybe even surpass by stanley kubrick the shining and quite possibly the scary movie ever . the movie follow a writer ( jack nicholson ) and his family who agree to watch over a hotel while it be close for the winter . there be rumor of the place be haunt and the last resident go crazy and murder his family . but jack be convince it will be ok and he can use the quiet to overcome his writer block . after month of solitude and silence however and jack become a grumpy and later violent . be it cabin fever or be there something in the hotel that be drive him mad . one of the creepy part about the movie be the feeling of isolation that kubrick make . the hotel be very silent and and the room be huge and yet always empty . it be also eerily calm when jack son be rid his bike through the barren hallways . jack nicholson performance be also one of his very best and scar the hell out of me and make me sure to get out once in awhile . my favorite scene be when he be talk to a ghost from inside a walk in refrigerator . the shining be top for horror movie in my opinion and beat the snot out of crap like the ring and the blair witch project . it may be a oldie and but be definitely a goodie . positive .