The Shining (1980)

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Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

Starring

Jack NicholsonShelley DuvallDanny LloydScatman CrothersBarry Nelson

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Writer

Stephen KingStanley KubrickDiane Johnson

Genre

HorrorThriller

Release Date

May 23, 1980

Parents Guide

• Sex Moderate

  In room 237, A naked woman emerges from a bathtub. Her breasts, buttocks, pubic hair and vulva are shown. She then turns into an old woman with rotting skin. Frontal nudity is still shown.

  There are a couple of nude posters in a man's room with photos of a topless and a naked woman. Only breasts are shown.

  A man in a bear costume is giving a man oral sex. The action is not shown though it's brief.

  There is a very extended scene of full frontal female nudity and some explicit images in another scene.

  Explicit amounts of nudity.

• Violence Severe

  A man is brutally killed by being struck by an axe in the chest. Blood gushes out graphically as he screams. Very disturbing and graphic.

  An elevator lets out a river of blood.

  Jack Torrance makes violent threats to his wife Wendy, telling her he will beat her to death and in self defence hits the man in the face with a baseball bat knocking him down a flight of stairs.

  A frozen corpse is shown(extremely disturbing).

  A naked woman's skin starts graphically rotting as she turns into an old woman.

  Throughout the movie, Jack plots to kill his family as he is driven further into insanity.

  Jack attempts to axe murder his son and wife.

  Two dead bodies of girls are seen in a corridor. Blood splattered all over the walls and ground.

  A man smashes down a wooden door with an axe while a woman hides with a knife in her hand. She slices his hand open with the knife. Blood is shown.

• Profanity Moderate

  f**k, b**ch, ass, "ni*ger" are used.

  At least 17 instances of Blasphemy(Oh my G**, G**ammit, Je***)

• Drugs Mild

  Alcohol and tobacco use.

  The main character used to be an alcoholic.

• Frightening Scenes Severe

  Jack is shown to be increasingly unpleasant and brutal towards his wife and child, as he spirals into madness.

  The scene with Jack and Delbert Grady in the bathroom is very disturbing. This scene makes us start to understand just how disturbing the rest of the film will be.

  The ending scene is one of the most intense and horrifying scenes ever made.

  This is known as one of the most disturbing and scary movies ever made.

  The scene of the axe blade going through a bathroom door will frighten some viewers.

  In one scene, a small child is riding down the hall on a toy tricycle and sees two girls' ghosts (and then flashbacks of their bloody hacked up corpses).

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