The Shining

Tip from Kim

Just such an incredibly good production design and this landscape. Oh yes!

Stanley Kubrick's highly uneasy film adaptation of Stephen King's gothic novel, which has long since risen to the pop culture Olympus, remains unforgettable not least because of Jack Nicholson's oppressively diabolical portrayal of Jack Torrance.

Jack, an American family man in a flannel shirt, is the caretaker of the remote, ominous Overlook Hotel for an icy winter, together with his wife and child, in order to finish his book. But Jack is soon haunted by the hotel's history and begins terrorising his wife (Shelley Duvall) and psychically gifted son Danny in the endless emptiness of the hotel hallways. An abysmal journey into madness opens up in iconic visual violence that sends shivers down the spine.