FROM PAGE TO SCREEN: THE SHINING

There have been many successful movies made from great novels and many misfires as well. My personal favorite book-to-film translation is Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.

As a big fan of the book and of Kubrick’s take on it as well, this is one horror adaptation that really divides the fans. Even Stephen King himself dissed Kubrick’s vision of his own novel when it came out in 1980 (King even had his novel remade into a television miniseries in 1997).

But nothing stopped the box office take from climbing to $80 million plus in the U.S. alone when Kubrick’s film was originally released…

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