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Back in 1980, Jack Nicholson starred in a career-defining movie adaptation of Stephen King’s 1977 novel The Shining.
Stanley Kubrick’s film may have been criticised, including by King, for differing much from the source material.
Yet that didn’t stop the picture from going down as one of the greatest horror movies ever made.
The story follows Nicholson’s Jack, a writer who accepts a position as caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in the remote Rocky Mountains during the off-season.
Yet when…