And it can’t really hurt you if you don’t let it get in your head. This guy calls the ability “the shining” (just like the title!) and tells Danny that the hotel shines too. When the family arrives, Danny, meets a magical black man trope (Mario Van Peebles) who’s also psychic. He hopes to use the time there with just his wife and psychic son, Danny, to stay sober and to write a play he hopes will bring him back from academic disgrace (he beat up a student). He’s taken a job as off-season caretaker at The Overlook Hotel, a grand old place in the mountains. Jack Torrence is a recovering alcoholic with a history of violence and anger issues. Rebecca De Mornay is in it! So, let’s get into it. The TV mini-series features… that guy from “ Wings”? I’m kidding (even though that’s true). The performances in that film are pitch perfect (by all accounts, a brutal experience for Shelley Duvall) with Jack Nicholson turning in a bonkers (in a good way) turn as the hotel caretaker slowly descending into madness. Kubrick’s film is a classic slow-burn horror film that relies heavily on character development and atmosphere to build dread to frenzied heights at its climax. Of course, that would be an unfair comparison. Pretty good, with the coveat that it obviously doesn’t compare to Kubrick’s The Shining. I read somewhere that the made-for-TV version of The Shining was pretty good.
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