Day 16 - 19th January
Snacks eaten - Soup. Lovely homemade soup.
Film number 16 - The Shining
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Year - 1980
Want an example of a successful horror book to film translation? Kubrick's The Shining. Set in The Overlook Hotel, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes his wife and son to stay for the winter when he accepts the job of looking after it for the out of season months. Things take a sinister turn when the hotel is not all it seems.
Psychologically terrifying, isolation begins to chip away at each member of the Torrance family. Issues of mistrust, addiction and obsession resonate throughout the empty hotel with son Danny becoming harshly introduced to the distressing history The Overlook carries. Despite missing significant detail from Stephen King's novel, this film is uniquely gripping thanks to Nicholson's maniacal descent contrasted with Shelley Duvall's rise from sappy wife to protective mother.
Can we all agree this film is a Holly Would? Yes. Do I also love the book a little bit more? Yes. So here we begin my own maniacal descent into the harrowing film stage first of all beginning with Requiem for a Dream. Connection? Say it really loud in your head and I'll try and hear it.
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