The Shining [HD DVD] by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson: DVDNear.com

The Shining [HD DVD]

The Shining [HD DVD]
by Stanley Kubrick

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Actor: Barry Nelson, Danny Lloyd, Jack Nicholson, Scatman Crothers, Shelley Duvall
Director: Stanley Kubrick
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 144 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video

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Movie Review: US cut of The Shining HD DVD
Summary: 5 Stars

I'd heard that the picture was top notch on this transfer and for a film made back in 1979 and released in 1980 it doesn't disappoint. The hotel seems more detailed and the bold colours of those dreadful carpets stand out from the screen. This US cut is about 30 minutes longer than the UK version and offers some interesting little extras. It's a better cut and builds the tension better than the shorter version in my opinion. If you can pick this up for ?6 or ?7 you can't go wrong if you like this movie. Easily in the top five transfers on HD.

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Summary of The Shining [HD DVD]

Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is less an adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling horror novel than a complete reimagining of it from the inside out. In King's book, the Overlook Hotel is a haunted place that takes possession of its off-season caretaker and provokes him to murderous rage against his wife and young son. Kubrick's movie is an existential Road Runner cartoon (his steadicam scurrying through the hotel's labyrinthine hallways), in which the cavernously empty spaces inside the Overlook mirror the emptiness in the soul of the blocked writer, who's settled in for a long winter's hibernation. As many have pointed out, King's protagonist goes mad, but Kubrick's Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) is Looney Tunes from the moment we meet him--all arching eyebrows and mischievous grin. (Both Nicholson and Shelley Duvall reach new levels of hysteria in their performances, driven to extremes by the director's fanatical demands for take after take after take.) The Shining is terrifying--but not in the way fans of the novel might expect. When it was redone as a TV miniseries (reportedly because of King's dissatisfaction with the Kubrick film), the famous topiary-animal attack (which was deemed impossible to film in 1980) was there--but the deeper horror was lost. Kubrick's The Shining gets under your skin and chills your bones; it stays with you, inhabits you, haunts you. And there's no place to hide... --Jim Emerson

?Heeeeere?s Johnny!? In a macabre masterpiece adapted from Stephen King?s novel, Jack Nicholson falls prey to forces haunting a snowbound mountain resort with a macabre history.

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