1980 · 144 min

The Shining

Name: The Shining
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Released: 1980-05-23

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.

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Quick Facts

Confidence: HIGH

Status: Provisional

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Why It's Disturbing

An isolated family faces alcoholism, domestic abuse, child harm, and escalating psychological disintegration amid supernatural dread and seclusion.

Psychological72

Gore8

Bleakness18

Realism20

Dread38

Violence41

Body Horror5

Taboo8

Lingering Impact24

24.4

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The Shining has a DreadQ Score of 34/100. The score reflects psychological impact, dread, bleakness, violence, gore, realism and other disturbance dimensions.

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