Jack Torrance se traslada, junto a su mujer y a su hijo, al impresionante hotel Overlook, en Colorado, para encargarse del mantenimiento del mismo durante la temporada invernal, en la que permanece cerrado y aislado por la nieve. Su idea es escribir su novela al tiempo que cuida de las instalaciones durante esos largos y solitarios meses de invierno, pero desde su llegada al hotel, Jack comienza a padecer inquietantes transtornos de personalidad, al mismo tiempo que en el lugar comienzan a suceder diversos fenómenos paranormales.
Estrellas: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Philip Stone
Personal: Diane Johnson (Screenplay), Stanley Kubrick (Producer), John Alcott (Director of Photography), Leslie Tomkins (Art Direction), Wendy Carlos (Original Music Composer), James Liggat (Casting)
País: United Kingdom, United States of America
Idioma: English
Estudio: Warner Bros. Pictures, Peregrine, Hawk Films, The Producer Circle Co.
Duración: 146 minutos
Calidad: HD
Lanzamiento: May 23, 1980
IMDb: 2.785
Palabras clave:hotel, child abuse, based on novel or book, isolation, telepathy, delusion, grave, halloween, snowstorm, colorado, seclusion, surrealism, alcoholism, premonition, psychic power, caretaker, loneliness, vision, domestic violence, postmodern, psychological thriller, writer, twins, labyrinth, alcoholic, blizzard, mutilation, bloody body of child, extrasensory perception, uxoricide, motherhood, filicide, snowed in, burial ground, hypothermia, haunted hotel, psychological disintegration, paranoid, vexed, afi, frantic, pediatrician, repetition, mother son relationship, malicious, supernatural power, supernatural horror, ghost child, psychotronic film, writers-block, cabin fever, psychological horror, negative, deal with the devil, nuclear family, avant garde, yosemite national park, twin sisters, identical twins, arrogant, assertive, demeaning, enraged, frustrated, harsh, mean spirited, sardonic
