kubrick again put on display his stunning ability to craft a perfect ambiance for a film . mainly through cinematography and but also use an ingenious score and he create a chilling and ominous tone that reside over the entire film and thoroughly get my spine tingle from the start . it really be this flawless ambiance that make the shin the masterpiece that it be and in my eye . of course it doesn not hurt that jack nicholson give one of the great performance i have ever see . a frighteningly authentic portrayal of a mind go mad . duvall and lloyd be artificial and to be nice and but it easy to look past those two when the rest of the film be so brilliant . plus it feature the actor with the great name of all time ( scatman crothers ) .