10 Deaths That RUINED Movies

Although Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's most popular novel is a fantastic slice of horror in its own right, for die hard fans of the book The Shining is a major let-down when it comes to the characterisation and eventual death of Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson).

In the novel, the reason for Jack's descent into murderous insanity is the hotel itself, which controls his violent impulses and turns him against his family. At the end of the story, he briefly regains control of himself and helps his son Danny escape the hotel before its boiler blows the building to pieces. He's killed in the blast, but his family survives.

Much to King's annoyance, Kubrick decided against this for his film, and instead just made Jack an unstable killer driven mad by his isolation.

During the film's final act, he chases Danny (Danny Lloyd) through a frozen hedge maze, loses him, and then freezes to death overnight. It's a cartoonish demise that hasn't aged particularly well, and all these years later is just a lame conclusion to an otherwise thrilling horror flick.