The Shining (1980)

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

No horror movie buff can pass up this Stanley Kubrick 1980 masterpiece based on Stephen King’s book of the same name.

Starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall as Jack and Wendy Torrance, a couple who brings their young son with them to spend the winter looking after the empty, haunted Overlook Hotel, The Shining is one of the creepiest movies you’ll ever see.

When their young son begins noticing ghosts and his father Jack starts getting more and more influenced by malignant forces in the hotel, life for this young family rapidly takes a turn for the worst, leaving Wendy Torrance to defend herself against her suddenly psychopathic husband.