THE SHINING
A Refocus Film Festival Classics Selection
Preceded by a conversation wtih Josh Larsen, author of Fear Not! A Christian Appreciation of Horror
In this adaptation of Stephen King's horror story, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado, hoping to cure his writer's block. He settles in along with his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and his son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), who is plagued by psychic premonitions. As Jack's writing goes nowhere and Danny's visions become more disturbing, Jack discovers the hotel's dark secrets and begins to unravel into a homicidal maniac hell-bent on terrorizing his family. Reviled by its author, this storied adaptation spawned a sequel and was adapted a second time as a television miniseries, this time with King writing the script.