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The Shining (Two-Disc Special Edition) - Region 1 DVD

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Description: Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is less an adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling horror novel than a complete reimagining of it from the inside out. In King's book, the Overlook Hotel is a haunted place that takes possession of its off-season caretaker and provokes him to murderous rage against his wife and young son. Kubrick's movie is an existential Road Runner cartoon (his steadicam scurrying through the hotel's labyrinthine hallways), in which the cavernously empty spaces inside the Overlook mirror the emptiness in the soul of the blocked writer, who's settled in for a long winter's hibernation. As many have pointed out, K ... (more)
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Release date: 23 October 1980
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 0012569722101 UPC: 012569722101
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