"The Shining" is a great horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick that's adapted by Stephen King's "The Shining". I never read the book and don't care too much of it so I couldn't compare and I wouldn't, to be honest. I'm reviewing films and this film puts you on the edge of your seat. Not a complex plot but how the events play make somehting so simple very exciting and scary at the same time. You have to give it to Kubrick for shooting a take of fake blood coming out of an elevator and flooding the entire space and I love the fact that the darkness of the pool of "blood" blackens out the camera. Other directors wouldn't know what to do and wouldn't have the same set of balls to even try something like that. I give praise the characters and how the actors just bleed profuosly into them, you really believe what's going on. I praise the music for adding the right edge of the film's overeall tone of evil and dismemberment. I recommend this film to you all due to the fact that it's one of those films that although it's a slow-burn, it's creeps up until it hits the fan and there's no stopping after that an it all makes sense. The scenes compliment each other very well without showing too much love.