In time for Halloween, Sean Wilson takes a look at some of the most delightfully ghoulish and flesh-creeping stories ever put to paper. The Turn of the Screw Author Henry James described his own sensational chiller as a ‘pot-boiler’ but it’s clearly so much more than that. A deeply unnerving tale of a young governess […]
October Horrors Day 22 – The Shining (1980)
The Shining, 1980. Directed by Stanley Kubrick Starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers and Danny Lloyd. SYNOPSIS: Jack Torrance is a struggling writer who takes a job as the winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, located deep in the mountains and often snowed in during the winter months, bringing along his wife Wendy and […]
You’re Not Entitled to a Faithful Adaptation
Samuel Brace on adapting material for the big screen… You’re not entitled to a faithful adaptation of your favourite book. You’re not entitled to an accurate depiction of your favourite comic characters in a subsequent film. You’re not even entitled to a good movie or product. You’re not entitled to anything. And I start of […]
Watch The Shining remix The Chickening
After premiering last year at Fantastic Fest 2015, directors Nick DenBoer and Davy Force have released their short film The Chickening, a reimagining / remix of Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic The Shining. It’s utterly bonkers. Check it out here… Jack Torrance takes a new job as senior chief night manager for “Charbay’s Chicken World” —a state-of-the-art, […]
People will be “really excited” by prequel to The Shining, says producer
Overlook Hotel, the long-gestating prequel to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining will be “completely its own film”, according to producer James Vanderbilt in Collider. SEE ALSO: Stephen King has some harsh words for Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining Vanderbilt, promoting his own directorial debut Truth, praised director Mark Romanek (Never Let Me Go) as “a strong filmmaker […]
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