8 Disturbing Stephen King Book Moments That Were Cut From The Films
6. The Shining: Jack Disfigures Himself With A Mallet
Although Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining is considered a masterpiece by many, Stephen King never much cared for it, and he has his reasons.
The film deviates from the source material throughout, depicting Jack Torrance as slightly unhinged and generally unpleasant long before he was possessed by the Overlook Hotel.
The book is more emotive since the relationship between the psychic-powered Danny and his father is fleshed out, which makes it all the more tragic when Jack descends into madness, particularly when the malevolent forces that have taken hold force him to rearrange his face with a mallet.
He violently betters himself with the tool, disfiguring his skull to the point that his own son doesn't recognise him. Naturally, their final encounter is heart-breaking and nothing like the movie's version.
Almost as if to troll King, Kubrick's swapped Jacks's fiery fate for one of ice. In the book, he and the Overlook Hotel are taken out by an exploding boiler, while Jack Nicholson's version of the character famously freezes to death in the hedge maze with the building still intact.