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The Shining

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English, French
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.42 x 1.02 x 13.34 cm; 0.28 Grams
Manufacturer reference ‏ : ‎ 21156
Director ‏ : ‎ Stanley Kubrick
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, Dolby, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Import
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 23 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ June 12 2001
Actors ‏ : ‎ Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Spanish, English, French
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Warner Home Video
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00005ATQJ
Writers ‏ : ‎ Diane Johnson, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Reviewed in Canada on December 3, 2023

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This movie is a must for Halloween season or anyone who likes Jack Nicholson

Reviewed in Canada on November 27, 2023

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Jack Nickelson is my favorite actor in this wonderful scary stephen king movie.

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Good but not scary

Reviewed in Canada on October 7, 2023

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I was really expecting this to be more of a horror movie. Sure it had some scary moments but nothing really scary.
Includes a bunch of documentaries.
A fact. It was filmed when there was no snow on the ground. So they use tonnes of salt to look like snow. The characters must of been sweating in those winter jackets!

Reviewed in Canada on November 30, 2023

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neuf comme indiqué.

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Jonathan Perry

Classic Kubrick, Flimsy Packaging

Reviewed in Canada on September 14, 2023

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Great 4k transfer of an amazing movie. My only gripe is it came in the flimsiest eco-case I've ever seen. Come on Warner Brothers. Eco-cases are ridiculous. The flimsiness makes me want to toss the case away and replace it with a sturdier one so my discs are actually protected. Not very Eco.

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The very best of Kubrick, horror and Nicholson

Reviewed in Canada on October 14, 2023

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This is a great adaptation of Steven King's novel. I remember the first time I saw it how powerful and scary it was. But the difference say between this and The Exorcist which I still find to be a terrible film, this film succeeds with intelligence, wit and just plain horror and yet never overdone. I absolutely love it.

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Donboy37

Number 1 horror movie all time

Reviewed in Canada on November 3, 2023

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I’ve watched this movie numerous times. Enjoy every viewing… fantastic… too bad Amazon doesn’t offer it for free to Prime subscribers but whatever… $4 definitely worth it

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Bugs187

Looks better then ever

Reviewed in Canada on September 21, 2023

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Classic film, great 4K transfer. Picture quality is excellent, I don't think this film has ever look this good. Details in faces and the set back grounds is fantastic. The colors look great especially the reds.

The DTS-HD 5.1 audio soundtrack is very good. Dialogue is crisp and clear. The main title track has never sounded more ominous.

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MauAsRoma

Non può mancare nella vostra collezione

Reviewed in Italy on December 17, 2023

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Uno spettacolo di film da aggiungere alla vostra collezione. Cast eccezionale e davvero bello, dalla trama all'ambientazione, agli effetti e alle musiche. Davvero un film che merita di essere visto e rivisto. L'alta definizione ci sta tutta, anche se non si possono pretendere miracoli visto che è un film che ha anni e anni. La tensione è tanta

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fred

Endlich der ganze Film in herrlichem HDR 10+!

Reviewed in Germany on November 1, 2023

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Es handelt sich um die amerikanische Kinoversion, die um 25 Minuten länger ist, als die ursprüngliche deutschsprachige Kinoversion. Die bislang in der deutschsprachigen Fassung fehlenden 25 Minuten wurden nachsynchronisiert, wobei es sich jedoch um andere Sprecher handelt. Ich finde die Sprecherwahl sehr gelungen. Man merkt zwar v.a. bei Jack Nicholson schon, dass es eine geringfügig andere, nicht ganz so markante Stimme ist, ich finde es aber nicht störend.
Durch die zusätzlichen 25 Minuten wird der Film aber erst so richtig in sich stimmig, wird doch für mich erst jetzt das "shining" des Overlook-Hotel selbst, die sich daraus ergebende Beeinflussung der Familie Torreance, allen voran von Jack Torrance, spürbar.
Ich habe zuvor schon die BluRay der alten Version besessen, bin aber froh mir die 4K-UHD-Version gekauft zu haben, ist doch der Film erst in der langen Version so richtig rund. Zudem ist die Kontrastschärfe und die Farbsättigung der 4K-Langversion, dank UHD/HDR 10+, so gut, dass ich mir beim Sehen mehrfach in Erinnerung rufen musste, dass der Film über 40 Jahre alt ist.
Ansonsten ist zu diesem großartigen Film, insbesondere den herausragenden Jack Nicholson, ohnehin alles gesagt. Für mich eine ganz klare Kaufempfehlung und ein Gewinn in meiner Filmsammlung.

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confinement à l'auberge...

Reviewed in France on October 31, 2020

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Cette famille, on la « connaît » plus ou moins. Et si elle se retrouve confinée, ça n'est pas un hasard, ni à cause d'un grossier vi-rus ni par décision gouvernementale. Non, ce confinement, elle l'a bel et bien choisi. Pire encore : ça ne se passe pas chez eux, ni comme prévu. Quand sort ce film au début des années 80, Stephen King jouit déjà d'une immense notoriété d'écrivain. Pas mal de films ont déjà été adaptés à partir de ses romans. Qui a oublié Dead Zone de David Cronenberg ou encore Christine de John Carpenter (deux grands succès publics et critiques bien mérités) ? La réputation de Stephen King, maître du suspense et de l'horreur, n'est plus à faire. En ce temps-là, pas de smartphone bien sûr. Pas d'internet non plus. La communication avec l'extérieur se limite à la voiture, le train, l'avion et le téléphone fixe. Voici donc une famille isolée pendant quatre mois dans un immense hôtel de villégiature, « a holiday resort » comme ils disent en Amérique... MAIS, big problem en cas de pépin : pas de voisin à la ronde... Pas d'habitant à moins de trente bornes... Pire encore : l'hôtel a été bâti sur un ancien cimetière indien. Superstitions ? Malédictions ? Ancien instituteur, Jack ( Jack Nickolson ) décroche un job pour la saison hivernale : il sera concierge dans cet hôtel dont le nom est Overlook (« Overlook », étrange comme nom, car si ça évoque un point élevé où l’on domine sur le reste du paysage, le verbe signifie « négliger » ou bien « oublier »…). En attendant, l'entretien d’embauche s'est bien passé (première scène). Le cadre et le paysage sont grandioses (l’État du Montana). Mais dès le début, le petit Dick pose problème (Dick, c'est le prénom du petit garçon, leur fils unique). Il dit entendre une voix intérieure… Un autre personnage vit en lui... Il le fait parler... La mère est inquiète ( Shelley Duvall , sublime) : elle fait fait appel à un pédopsychiatre.

Le film de Kubrick n'a pas besoin d'une énième chronique qui, au-delà de la synopsis, au delà de la qualité du produit lui-même (Blu-ray 4K + Blu-ray) reste angoissant à maints égards (le rôle de la musique...). J'ai même envie de dire qu'il y a du David Lynch dans The Shining (mystère, paranormal). En tout cas, c'est sans doute le film le plus connu de son auteur, avec 2001, L'Odyssée de l'espace , même si j'ai une petite préférence pour Dr. Folamour (1964), Barry Lyndon (1975), sans oublier L'Ultime Razzia et Les Sentiers de la Gloire , deux films réalisés respectivement en 1955 et 1957). Librement adapté de The Shining (l'enfant lumière, en Français), le film trahit la trame originale et même le dénouement. Qu'importe, un film n'a pas vocation à être fidèle à un roman. Le résultat reste en tout cas fascinant. Et s'il existe une famille éclatée, c'est bien celle-ci : les Torrance. Pourtant, ils ont tout pour vivre correctement leur confinement : des provisions, de l'espace, du calme... Et quand Jack trouve ce boulot de concierge et se lance à la tâche pour commencer un roman, il se dit pourquoi pas. Et puis, pourquoi ça devrait mal tourner ? Cela dit, on l'a averti (lors de l'entretien d'embauche...) que ça ne serait pas une tâche facile que de rester aussi longtemps confiné, surtout à l'approche de l'hiver avec ses tempêtes de neige et ses bourrasques. Ils seront encore plus isolés. Et puis, dans le passé, bien des choses se sont produites dans cet hôtel. Un meurtre atroce (qui a oublié Grady ?). Mais il accepte, le Jack. Après tout, le cadre n'est-il pas superbe ?

Kubrick réalise à mon sens le plus grand film d'horreur du cinéma (ou plutôt l'un des plus grands films à suspense - il y a une différence...). Jamais égalé. Jamais surpassé. Dans le genre, je le mets au même niveau d'épouvante que le Psycho d'Alfred Hitchcock. Et c'est du même niveau que Misery , le film de Rob Reiner, avec l'incomparable Kathy Bates. Peut-être que le film de Kubrick est plus diabolique, plus terrifiant, plus effrayant (âmes sensibles s'abstenir, vraiment...) que les films d'Hitchcock et de Reiner. Mais quelle maestria dans cette mise en scène (comment oublier cette scène surréaliste avec Lloyd, le barman ?). Quel sentiment d'asphyxie et d'étrange ! Même si au fil des visionnages l'on découvre de petits détails amusants, l'ensemble reste toujours fascinant (comme tous ces bagages lors de l'arrivée de la famille Torrance à l'hôtel, alors qu'ils ont fait le trajet dans une voiture toute minuscule, une Coccinelle Volkswagen si je me souviens bien...). Tout est filmé avec minutie, et une précision déconcertante (perspectives, géométrie des couloirs, labyrinthes). J'ai particulièrement aimé les scènes avec le gardien campé par Scatman Crothers (superbe acteur que vous avez déjà croisé dans Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou ou encore dans Bronco Billy ), notamment quand il s'inquiète de ce qui peut se passer à l'hôtel... Car le personnage a lui aussi ce don (The Shining). Mais chut, chut... hush, hush ! Don't tell me more. Voyez ce film ou revoyez-le dans cette édition (ultime ?) ou dans le blu-ray Warner de 2015 ( The Shining ). Langues disponibles : Français, anglais, espagnol, etc. Sous-titres français, anglais... Une superbe édition. Attention toutefois : si vous n'avez pas de lecteur blu-ray 4K (nette amélioration visuelle par rapport à l'édition Blu-ray de 2007 et 2015), ça n'est pas la peine de se jeter sur ce produit... Et maintenant..., bonne séance, confinement ou pas.

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(1) Lire les superbes chroniques (plus ou moins longues) laissées sur le site (Tornado, Luc B.), concernant notamment la version américaine de 20 minutes de plus (144 minutes) sortie en 2015. La mienne n'est qu'une goutte d'eau dans cet océan, histoire de donner un avis personnel bien limité. On ne manquera pas non plus le bouquin de Michel Ciment, préfacé par Martin Scorsese ( Kubrick , chez Calmann-lévy). Quant aux troubles du petit Danny, on peut se demander si ça n'est que le fruit de son imagination, un jeu ou autre chose, de l'ordre de la schizophrénie...

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Barry Zunneberg

Great value for money

Reviewed in Australia on December 22, 2022

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John Picard

ONE OF THE BEST EVER

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 23, 2013

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"The Shining" is one of the best horror thrillers ever made, it is absolutely fantastic. In my opinion, it is significantly better than the TV mini series, being more scary and haunting. While the mini series is much more true to the book, The original Shining is much more better overall. The acting is great, Jack Nicholson receives an Oscar for portraying Jack Torrance - he is perfect for the part. If you want an actor to play a role about going mad and crazy, you can't go wrong with Nicholson. Danny Lloyd stars as Jack's son, Danny! He plays really well too, those eyes is why he was chose to play the part. He made it really effective when he stared for a really long time at something ghostly in the hotel. Wendy is played by Shelley Duvall, many people thought she was too weepy and soppy, but that was all for affect. Mister Halloran was also brilliant, as was all the cast, a perfect set-up in that respect. This film was directed by Stanley Kubrick back in 1990, and he did a great job, making a suspense-filled masterpiece.

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Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and young son Danny come to the vacant, isolated Overlook Hotel to get away from it all. Also, Jack is off-season caretaker and is working on his new writing project, the silence and vacantness of the Overlook seems a perfect place for him to focus on his work. However, not all is as it seems. Jack's son, Danny possesses a very unique gift, "The Shining", where he can see things other can't. Danny has a psychic gift that the hotels vile spirits desperately want. But that's only part of the trouble. Due to the isolation at the Overlook, there is another danger far closer, Danny's dad slowly starts to go insane...

Stephen King did not like Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of his hit novel, one of the reasons for this judgement was due to Jack Nicholson playing "Jack" way too over the top. But it's Nicholson, obviously he's goanna play him over the top. Well in a way I can see where the mans coming from because Jack was crackers all the way through. He was nuts - just nuts. Jack Nicholson made the film good along with its dreamlike tracking shots, shock after shock of occurrence with vivid performances and menacing settings. There is certain feeling you get all the way through this film, a dread of deadly expectation, but don't confuse that with predictability. I bet all of you who have already seen this film always remember the scenes where Danny rode his kind of mini car around all of the Overlook's corridors, this was really effective, with the wheels of the car making a noise that makes you think of some kind of terror waiting to happen. Not to mention the masterful insertion of REDRUM, which really made you crap your pants before the "Here's Johnny!" scene. When Jack sticks his head through the gap in the axed door, he makes a face only he could and the way he acted in that scene just sums up what a great actor he really is - he did that from the heart. It was like staring into madness, but he was mad. He had lost it completely by the time this scene took hold. Many people did not understand why Jack said "here's Johnny!", instead of "Here's Jacky!" Well, I'll explain. Jack Torrance used to watch a popular show every night that millions watched on the TV, and the presenter was always introduced by the phrase "Here's Johnny", because the presenters name was Johnny Carson. When Jack Torrance says it, it just shows how insane he's gotten, with a psycho grin on his face to demonstrate how demented his mind was by that point. We did have a premonition early on in the film that Jack might go mad, when we were told by Mister Ullman, the manager of the hotel, that Delbert Grady took care of the hotel during the winter last time and killed his wife and children with an axe. He said that "long term isolation" must had made him suffer from a complete mental breakdown. This film does not fail with comes to pace consistency, keeping us hooked right the way through by throwing things in are face nearly every five minutes. The hallway scene was the first impression that something bad was happening, with one of the scariest moments in one of the Overlook's guest rooms - the bathtub scene. This was so well done and damn bloody frightening! There are so many reasons why this film is memorable, with the climax making it all the more brilliant will a full-on, crazy resolution. This was very ambitiously done, and paid off really well.

The setting is perfect for the nature of the film. The snow scenes were beautifully shot, with great scenery. The music in this film is really good, making each scene eerie and with shivers going up the spine. It suits the theme of the film perfectly, Kubrick really knew what he was doing with this.

The question throughout the film is whether Jack is imagining the spirits and ghosts that thrive in the hotel, or if there is actually a terror really going on. The supernatural side of this film ties in perfectly with this question and makes you think how and where this terror originated from. The TV mini series is good as well, don't get me wrong. But the actor who plays jack isn't a cut over Nicholson portrayal. The main factor for me, is that it is not scary. This film is a classic for that reason and for it being the first epic horror film that stood out from the crowd. The cast is good though in the mini series, namely Wendy who is played by one of Tom Cruise's ex girlfriends, Rebecca De Mornay who did an excellent job, as did the boy who played the part of Danny. The actor was played Jack was great too, but when you compare him to "here's Johnny!", it's no wonder he's put in the shade. I also found that the mini series tended to drag on in parts, it was much longer and had more time for development of characters and background history - Jack's alcoholism. As well as, in this one we saw Jack Torrance slowly transform from normal person to mad psychopath, it was gradual, good to see how he changed. In this version, Kubrick got straight to the point. Jack was mad right the way through really, he was a proper odd-ball, with his weirdo faces which was supposedly his "normal state", but his psycho state was the same but worse. This version is better, but both are good in their own right.

Now, with this Blu-ray release you can see the film in the best format ever - high definition, a classic film that deserves classic representation.
With the exception of Misery, "The Shining" is perhaps the best adaptation of King's books ever. IT and CARRIE are also good, but this is better. Never again in the history of film will there be a harrowing, mind-blowing masterpiece as good as this. It's enthralling, think of the greatest terror imaginable. Would you think of fear of murder by someone who is supposed to love and protect you? Perhaps, because this could really happen - making it all the more fantastic. It's realistic, not in the sense of being taken to the extremes that this film was, I mean no ones madder that Jack Nicholson, but someone could really go insane. Sometimes the terror is far closer to home. Once you have watched this film, you will never forget it, ever. It is stunning, one of the best horror thrillers ever. See it, you'll be glad you did.

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Format	Color, Dolby, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Import
Contributor	Joe Turkel, Philip Stone, Billie Gibson, Tony Burton, Jack Nicholson, Stanley Kubrick, Shelley Duvall, Barry Nelson, Diane Johnson, Barry Dennen, Lia Beldam, Anne Jackson, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd, Stephen King See more
Language	English, French
Runtime	2 hours and 23 minutes