2006-07-09 08:15:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Totally separate concepts . . . in "The Shining", the hotel is possessed and overtakes the personality of the overseer. "Psycho" is a psychological horror movie. Norman Bates is so inextricably linked to his mother that he adopts her clothing and mannerisms while he kills.
2006-07-09 08:18:40 · answer #1 · answered by trb1967 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The two movies you are referring to are completely different movies, having nothing to do with each other. "The Shining" is Stephen King's brainchild. I'm not sure who wrote "Psycho", but I don't think it was Stephen King.
"The Shining" is about a family (that contains a special little boy who has a psychic "gift") who move into a "psychically haunted" hotel for the winter (per his father's employment), and what takes place after the move. (The hotel has an extremely "negative" effect on the father, played by Jack Nicholson.) I won't say anything more here, for those who've never seen the movie. It's well worth watching- one of my all-time favorite horror classics.
"Psycho" is hard to describe without giving away key details to the movie's plot, but it's enough to say that it's completely different from "The Shining"- I don't think the concepts are alike, unless you consider the main character to be influenced (psychically) by his dead mother, but I'm not clear on if this really is so, or if he is just completely "bonkers"!
2006-07-09 15:25:37 · answer #2 · answered by It's Ms. Fusion if you're Nasty! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well for a start The Shining was originally a book by Stephen King and Psycho was a book by Robert Bloch. They were then both made into Thriller moveis so no they weren't based on the same ideas.
2006-07-09 15:20:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Totally different. The film Psycho is about an evil motel owner who kills its guests. The Shining By Stephen King is about a haunted Hotel itself, which makes people (like Jack) go mad. The only real simmilarity is that they are both hotels.
2006-07-09 15:19:29 · answer #4 · answered by Jester 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are two entirely different movies, and concepts. Psycho deals with a man who turns out to have multiple personality, and feels guilty when a woman attracts him, because of his dead mother, who was crazy, and abused as he was growing up, and becomes his mother's personality, and kills the women who attract him, because his mother blames them, he then becomes upset with his 'mother' for doing, and trys to cover it up, by putting them in their cars and dumping the car, and body in the bog.
The Shining has to do with a boy who has esp, and a hotel which is haunted, that they are looking after during the winter. The main character goes slowly insane, and trys to kill his family, due to the influences of the spirits which haunt the hotel.
2006-07-09 15:32:19 · answer #5 · answered by ginger r 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, they are both different. However, Stephen King may have "borrowed" ideas form Psycho when he wrote the Shining (like the whole going crazy in a hotel, killing people part)
2006-07-09 15:19:39 · answer #6 · answered by crazy_airforce_guy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they are separate movies. In both, there is a man that is crazy. However, in Psycho I think he was already crazy and in The Shining, the man goes crazy.
2006-07-09 15:19:18 · answer #7 · answered by penpallermel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Different movies, though they both take place in out-of-the-way, pretty much vacant hotels.
2006-07-09 15:18:55 · answer #8 · answered by staubfinger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋