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The Shining



The Shining - in which a madman has made a film about more madmen, and poor Shelly DuVall barely survives. Jack Torrence moves his wife and son into an isolated hotel for the winter season, and they better plan on getting along, because they are stuck up there for months! Their son, Danny is psychic, and so it makes him more vulnerable to the psychic attacks of the Overlook Hotel. It kind of leaves Wendy alone, and it sinks its teeth into Jack, drawing out his dry-drunk resentment and his natural violent tendencies. A ghost of the guy who murdered his wife and twin daughters keeps showing up to hang out with Jack, and Jack is getting NO work done on his typewriter, despite yelling at nice Wendy to leave him alone. You know, to "concentrate." All work and no play make Jack a dull girl, I know it well. Things really start to deteriorate when the ghosts get Jack drunk, and he personally knocks out the radio and snowcat so Wendy can't call or go for help. On winter vacation in Florida, the nice man who showed Wendy and Danny around the kitchen, Mr. O'Holleran, psychically deduces that the Torrences are in trouble, and he freakin flies up there to save them! And, technically, he does kind of save them, as Wendy and Danny couldn't have gotten away from Jack without the extra snowcat that he arrived in, but Mr. O'Halleran takes an axe to the chest while he is walking around trying to find Wendy. Danny hides from his dad in the giant hedge maze, and Jack freezes to death like a garbage crazy jerk who couldn't handle a little time alone.

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