Have you ever been so frightened of someone or something that it controls your thoughts and actions? When I was a small child, this "something" was the movie "The Shining". With the director's used of good actors and actresses, a vivid story line, and terrifying special effects, this movie frightens children, as well as adults alike.
As the story unfolds, the main characters are a family of a father, mother, and young son. They have to stay in a huge hotel as caretakers, snowed in for the winter months. The father, Jack Torrance, can't take the solidarity and ends up going crazy. His son, Danny, is also noticing dead people living in the house as ghosts. He has a special "sense" and only he can see and talk to these spirit people. These ghosts soon possess the child and his mother, Wendy, must shake him out of his trances. Jack becomes psycho at the end and attempts to kill his wife and son to live in the hotel with the spirits of the once living.
When they arrived at the scary......

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Title: The Shining
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