If anyone can turn Stephen King’s disappointing sequel to The Shining into a decent movie, it’s the director of last year’s surprisingly great Gerald’s Game.
What a difference a director makes: the thought of a prequel to 'The Shining' makes us roll our eyes hard, but the thought of Mark Romanek directing a prequel to 'The Shining' makes our ears perk up. If you are going to make a prequel to one of the coldest and weirdest horror movies of all time, you might as well hire one of the coldest and weirdest directors working today...
A recent study of 10,000 people, using analyzation of heart rates, proved that The Shining is the scariest movie yet! To give yet another credential to Jack Nicholson's performance, his 'Here's Johnny' scene was deemed the scariest scene in movie history! Keep reading to find out more, and what movies and scenes came in second and third!
Prequels are all the rage these days, generally making bank at the box office due to name recognition while angering hordes of movie buffs (who take to internet comments sections to protest). However, no project has ever sounded more cinematically blasphemous than what Warner Bros. may be cooking up right now: a prequel to Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror classic ‘The Shining.’
In a move that suspense fans have been waiting for since 1977, renowned horror author Stephen King is finally writing a follow-up to his suspense classic "The Shining".