#The shining 480p movie

Based (very loosely) on the novel by Stephen King, over the course of a few snowbound weeks at the Overlook Hotel, aspiring novelist Torrance (Nicholson) will give new meaning to the phrase 'dying for your art.' Expecting to finish his 'Great American Novel,' Jack drags his long-suffering wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and young son Danny (Danny Lloyd) to spend a relaxing winter at the cavernous Overlook, but the hotel's previous guests have something else in mind. 'The Shining' has somehow risen from the ashes of its own bad press to redefine itself not only as a seminal work of the genre, but perhaps the most stately, artful horror ever made.īy now, most everyone knows the story. Many of the same reviewers who lambasted the film for 'not being scary' enough back in 1980 now rank it among the most effective horror films ever made, while audiences who hated the film back then now vividly recall being 'terrified' by the experience. Despite a strong opening weekend, box office quickly plummeted, and 'The Shining' soon became known as the 'bummer of the summer.'įunny, then, that just as the ghostly apparitions of the film's fictional Overlook Hotel would play tricks on the mind of poor Jack Torrance, so too has the passage time changed the perception of 'The Shining' itself.

#The shining 480p movie

Arriving that June amidst an almost breathless level of anticipation, audiences and critics alike were ultimately underwhelmed, complaining about the film's slow pace, lack of traditional horror movie shocks, and an over-the-top, scene-chewing star turn by Jack Nicholson.

Although Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' is now considered a horror classic, back at the time of its original 1980 theatrical release, it was something of a bust.