the shining

Snow: it means a lot of things to a lot of people. From the gothic of Edgar Allan Poe's glacial whiteness, a terrifying signifier for the absence of meaning, all the way to the snow-filled carols from childhoods both contemporary and…

“May the ballroom remain eternal…” The Caretaker was one of several monikered projects by UK artist Leyland James Kirby. If we take him at his word, it ended in 2019 with the release of the final stage of his masterpiece Everywhere At The…

There’s a joke I made about writing this article: “how do I make a film about people isolated together and one of them going mad topical today?” I thought about that joke while I was watching The Shining’s opening, with its amazing…

After 39 years, audiences finally get a sequel to the acclaimed Stanley Kubrick horror masterpiece The Shining. To follow-up such an intense outing, without the original director or even cast, is both brave and in some respects a risk for…

There is no denying the 1980s was the decade where the genre of horror movies ruled. Gone were the figures of Dracula, Frankenstein and at times even the Devil himself was not enough to terrify us. It gave rise to new inventions to haunt…