SHINING (dvd) *NEW* Cabin Fever in Motel and 12 similar items

Brand new factory sealed dvd is an "open matte" as Stanley Kubrick had intended, that is basically a 4x3 aspect ratio. Perfect for old school televisions as the image will fill your square screen. Gatefold card cover, these usually have credits, and or photos and liner notes on the inside. Jack Torrance (Nicholson), his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and their son, Danny, move into a sprawling Colorado hotel after Jack accepts a position there as the winter caretaker. After being shown the ropes by the cook, Halloran (Scatman Crothers), the family is left to their own devices for a long snowy winter. Danny's possession of a strange psychic gift, dubbed the "SHINING" by the similarly-gifted Halloran, causes the boy to believe the hotel is haunted by ghosts, including those of the twin daughters murdered with an axe by a previous caretaker. A recovering alcoholic and struggling writer, Jack finds his thin grip on reality slipping away as the hotel begins to exert its evil spectral influence. The film is unsettling for its manipulation of time and space. Broken up by title cards ("Closing Day", "4 A.M.", etc.) which becomes increasingly meaningless as the story progresses and the present and past begin to merge into a jumble of images and sounds. The collision of the spiritual and physical planes becomes complete when first Jack and then Wendy begin to physically witness the apparitions, and the ghosts even intrude on the physical level by unlocking a door. While a number of horror films achieve their power through psychological suggestion ('Babbadook' for example), this film takes an entirely differant approach through sensory accumalation.