"Heeere’s Johnny!"

There are two types of fears, instinctive and induced. But when Stanley Kubrick humanizes fear, it’s the perfect concoction of both. In Shining, by horror king Stephen King yet again, the master enthralls with spine-chilling sound design. An instance of the fantastic sound effects is when Danny rides his tricycle on the rugs and wooden boards; the rhythm of the alternating materials is quite captivating. Jack Nicholson steals the show again with his natural ability to transmogrify into a monster quite effortlessly. The camera throughout the film, is either behind or bang in front of the actor, giving the illusion of flat, two dimensional imagery.

Sadly, a goof up put me off. In the opening scene the shadow of the helicopter doing the filming can be seen for an instant on the lower right corner. “Et tu Stanley?” Well, we all are human after all….