![]() He has an older, richer, well-connected friend who’s also a recovered alcoholic this friend got him the job when he seemed unemployable. The subject is Jack Torrance, an alcoholic wannabe writer, who’s about to lose both his temper and his job as an English teacher at a private boys’ school on the East Coast. To start, I’m going to give you an extremely shortened version in case you’ve never read The Shining. I’ll give you a hint: “Who rang that bell?”) Figure 2 – Miniseries The Shining title card It’s okay if you don’t get this reference. ![]() Don’t get me wrong, I like the Kubrick version, but let me be clear: it’s not Stephen King‘s The Shining, it’s Stanley Kubrick‘s The Shining, which is a horse of a totally different colour. After thinking fairly hard-well, as hard as I usually do-about the book and its video representations, I decided to review the TV mini-series from 1997 and talk about all the stuff around it, like the aforementioned Kubric opus. Well, Halloween’s coming up, and I thought I’d take the next couple of columns to look at some Halloween-related genre stuff. ![]() It’s Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in the Stanley Kubrick version of Stephen King‘s The Shining. Practically everyone who reads and goes to movies in our genre (whatever that is) knows the face in Figure 1. ![]()
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