The Shining
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As the cavernous hotel shuts down for the season, the manager gives Jack a grand tour, and the facility's chef, the ageing Mr Hallorann, has a fascinating chat with Danny about a rare psychic gift called "The Shining", making sure to warn him about the hotel's abandoned rooms, and, in particular, the off-limits Room 237. However, instead of overcoming the dismal creative rut, little by little, Jack starts losing his mind, trapped in an unforgiving environment of seemingly endless snowstorms, in the hotel riddled with strange occurrences and eerie visions.
At this special screening, relaunching our long-running Creatures of the Night strand – we'll be joined on stage before the film by Craig Oldham, in conversation with Farran Golding.
Craig Oldham is an award-winning designer and editor of the recently published The Shining: A Visual and Cultural Haunting from Rough Trade Books. Village Books will be joining us at the screening, with signed copies of the book available to buy on the night.
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“Instead of the cramped darkness and panicky quick editing of the standard-issue scary movie, Kubrick gives us the eerie, colossal, brilliantly lit spaces of the Overlook Hotel (created in Elstree Studios, Hertfordshire), shot with amplitude and calm.”
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“Technically, there is no better film in the genre... Ostensibly a haunted house story, it manages to traverse a complex world of incipient madness, spectral murder and supernatural visions... and also makes you jump.”
Ian Nathan, Empire
“Stanley Kubrick’s interpretation of the horror genre has gone down in history as one of the defining horror films of all time.”
Swapnil Dhruv Bose, Far Out