Impressive camera movements, extremely successful use of film music and a brilliant Jack Nicholson.

Jack Torrance and family take the decision to take care of the location in the solitude of the mountains Overlook Hotel in Colorado during the winter break. This is a welcome opportunity for Jack to write a novel, and his wife keeps the stay also for a good idea. However, the peaceful and friendly atmosphere changes rapidly, because quickly brings Jack and his family's grim history of hotels. Jack comes with the responsibility that lies on his shoulders, and the thus associated stress not clear ...

Already by the beginning of the sequence, in which the family on a seemingly endless road drives to the hotel, to the audience the complete isolation of the system is aware of. The soundtrack used at this point polarises quite neutral image statement, and it clearly connotes dark and menacing.
The son of the family, Danny, has clairvoyant abilities with which it can communicate with the spirit world and with other people who also carry this investment in yourself. This is called "Shining", at least from the hotel, which has this capability and recognizes also in Danny on the date of closure of cooking. Through this gift Danny gets from time to time visions associated with the bloody things in conjunction that have taken place here before. The boy is gradually aware that room 237 has something special in itself. The events come thick and fast after Danny, proposes the prohibition of the cook, not to enter this room in the wind.

Not only has this Danny waking dreams, but also his father Jack. Its actually good-natured soul is gradually more and more corrupted by the dark side of the hotel.

More I do not want to reveal at this point.
A clear recommendation to fans of pleasant Grusels.