10 Movies That WASTED Villains From Their Source Material

The Shining is no doubt one of Stephen King's most popular and well-known books, owing in no small part to Stanley Kubrick's big screen adaptation starring Jack Nicholson.

While Nicholson was able to convincingly portray Jack Torrance's descent into madness during his winter at the Overlook Hotel, the decision to leave out much of the book's story made the movie ring hollow for any of King's fans who may have read the source material.

In the book, The Overlook is an entity all its own, and it poisons Jack's mind before taking over completely and sending him off on his famous rampage.

Jack also meets an unceremonious icy end in the movie, whereas in the book he dies with purpose, fighting against The Overlook's possession of his mind, allowing Danny enough time to escape the Hotel before its boiler explodes.

To use all of the material in King's book would make for a much longer movie than Kubrick's, but King's book contains details that make the characters so much more human, and that's something that Kubrick's adaptation simply couldn't replicate.