yes i finally got to watch the movie,which is overhyped until today and said to be 'scary'.i almost fell asleep watching this.slow plot progress,unscary ghosts but i admit jack n is fun to watch.but i honestly don't understand why people call this a classic,and i suspect half the people who say so haven't actually watched the movie but are actuall stanley k/jack n fans.
no offence.
2006-10-21 06:02:33 · 9 answers · asked by al 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
To me, because of the ominous mood it sets and maintains throughout the movie (even every bit of the hotel in the background). A feeling of dread it pulls off without having to kill a meaningless character every 17 minutes. And the human issues intertwined - isolation, claustrophobia, awkwardness, strained marriage, alcoholism, divorce, psychological domination and submission (Jack over Wendy). You may have been conditioned to prefer simpler "horror" (a string of fright gags and gore scenes). That would not be your fault - such horror flicks are easier to churn out.
2006-10-21 06:10:51 · answer #1 · answered by Lost Panda 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The film is about a haunted lodge where the caretaker slowly descends into insanity and predestined to murder his family with an ax, as the caretaker before him did to his family. The audience does not know
who hurt Danny's neck, was it Jack or was it the old woman in room 237? There is no "monster" that chases anyone down a hall. But there is rivers of blood pouring from an elevator door. The monster is what the hotel did to Jack, he becomes a madman, bent on killing his family with an ax. Kubrick is too classy to do a Friday the 13th, If you like that BS, then move into a trailer.
2015-01-14 23:52:54 · answer #2 · answered by Dunlavy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alien (1979) The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) the element (1982) Dracula (1992) Evil ineffective II (1987) break of day of the ineffective (1978) Tremors (1990) An American Werewolf in London (1981) The Frighteners (1996)
2016-12-08 18:33:11 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our culture has gotten familiar and numb to "Massacres".
We have office massacres (gone postal) ... school massacres ... and ppl like John Mark Karr who roam the streets begging to be thrown in prison, but just released. Yeah, compared to the evening news, the "Shinning" is boring ... but what's even scarier is that society is numb to crimes and massacres.
I do try to find empathy with the characters in this movie/ novel. The "Isolation" is freaky ... "Snow" is freaky ... and ESP "Talking finger" in that little kid who doesn’t understand he‘s got multiple personalities is freaky. Also, the way the writer slowly has Jack loose his mind ... I think many are hair threads away from loosing their minds too. Scary.
2006-10-23 08:10:48 · answer #4 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was disappointed by it. I read the book and then saw the movie when it came out in the theater. The book was great and with Kubrick directing and Nicholson starring I was expecting a **** film. But I only gave it **1/2.
2006-10-21 09:17:30 · answer #5 · answered by DawnDavenport 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because its fear factor worked on a mental level not a flash and gore and SAW type fear factor... Psychologically, what is worse than being both trapped... and pursued by a demonic entity that inhabits your family and makes them try and kill you?
It was mentally disturbing and therefore really really frightening...
Because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy...
2006-10-21 06:11:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
when it first came out it probably was scary but that was so long ago we now have even scarier movies so that one doesnt seem scary at all.
2006-10-21 06:09:36 · answer #7 · answered by Isabelle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One word: Redrum!
2006-10-21 06:33:56 · answer #8 · answered by tommygirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you don't know, nobody could explain it to you.
2006-10-21 06:08:40 · answer #9 · answered by green star 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋