Doncaster Film Club – The Shining

Martin Scorsese called it ‘majestically terrifying’. Roger Ebert called it ‘strangely disturbing’. Pauline Kael called it ‘satanic’. Here at Doncaster Film Club, we simply describe it as The Greatest Horror Film Ever Made. The Shining arrived like an axe to the stomach in October of 1980 and it’s been terrifying audiences ever since. The performances of Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall have become etched in cinema history, Stanley Kubrick’s masterful direction is still unlike anything that has been released before or since and Wendy Carlos’ haunting score is one for the ages. Put simply, The Shining is a cinematic behemoth.