What happens when you’re cut off from the world, and from yourself? In The Shining, everyday reality quietly unravels into something far more unsettling. What starts as a fresh opportunity becomes a tense, hypnotic descent into isolation, fear, and madness.
A chilling masterpiece in which Stanley Kubrick elevates horror to pure cinema.
Genre: drama, supernatural
Language: English, subtitles: Dutch
Length:2 hrs 26 mins (1980)
Writer and former alcoholic Jack Torrance takes a winter job as caretaker of a remote hotel high in the Rocky Mountains. Together with his wife Wendy and their psychic son Danny, he retreats far away from civilization.
But when the only access road disappears under the snow, silence creeps into the hotel. Slowly, Jack loses his grip on reality, fueled by dark forces and violent memories that seem to dwell within the building. He spirals into a terrifying loss of control, putting his family at risk.
With The Shining, Stanley Kubrick delivered a bold and unsettling adaptation of Stephen King’s novel. Where the book relies on explicit horror, Kubrick opts for alienation, repetition, and menace in image and sound. The result: one of the most influential horror films ever made—still discussed, analyzed, and admired today.
Introduction
Before the screening, film enthusiast Witold Greda (former film operator at Filmhuis De Zwarte Doos, currently at LAB-1) will give a short introduction, sharing insights that will deepen your viewing experience.
Awards
The Shining won Best Supporting Actress for Shelley Duvall at the 1981 Saturn Awards. It was also nominated for Best Horror Film and Best Director at the same awards.
Reviews
“The story sees Jack Torrance drag his wife Wendy and psychic son Danny up a mountain to be the hotel’s winter caretaker. Things go badly. … Still, a masterpiece.” Time Out
“The Shining is both a radical distillation of its source novel’s densely stuffed ghosts-and-gore imagery and a conflation of its hidden central theme of the horrors of domestic abuse.” Slant Magazine
“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.” Empire magazine
SG & USE/ITEC registration
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Ticket information
This film will be shown at Filmhuis De Zwarte Doos.
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Please be on time
The screening of the film begin promptly at 19:00 (with no pre-film advertisements), and the cinema hall will open at 19:10. We kindly request that you arrive at the ticket counter at least 10 minutes before the start of the film to ensure a smooth and timely experience for all.
The Studium Generale film program is created in collaboration with the Student Film Committee and Natlab.