The Shining by Stephen King
1980, Starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
One of the best film adaptations of a book has to be Stanley Kubrick’s interpretation of Stephen King’s The Shining (1980), the images from which were indelibly imprinted on my brain at a rather young age, and have never left. I would not have been allowed to see the movie the year it came out, but remember being haunted by the TV commercials: the bloody elevator, the creepy twins, Jack Nicholson’s maniacal grin as he chased his own family, limping, through the snowy hotel grounds.
A few years later, when I was finally old enough to read the book and watch the movie, neither disappointed. King’s novel and Kubrick’s film are iconic, and stay with me as the most fabulously suspenseful, edge-of-your-seat, bite-your-nails and hold-your-breath in terror, defining horror stories of my generation.
~Jennifer M. Kaufman
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The husband says Harry Potter #5.
This isn't a movie, but Wicked (the musical) is significantly better than Wicked (the book).
Had I had even the smallest amount of free time this week, I would have participated in this post with "Deathly Hallows Part2." Perhaps it's geeky and a bit dorky to say, but I consider that movie to the one of the best I've ever seen and certainly the best movie I've seen in ten years. It was very true to the novel.
just love everyone's picks…. several movies I really want to see now (Titus Andronicus, for one!)
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