Jules Gill's 10 Greatest Films Of All Time
7. The Shining
The Shining is a horror film so utterly potent it's been living in my mental hotel rent-free for years. I cannot get over how meticulous a film this is, and how I'm utterly torn between falling to my knees and kissing the feet of Stanley Kubrick for his work and loathing the man for what he put the actors and staff through while making this.
Yet as a piece of art, this film is easily one of the most haunting and disturbing experiences I've sat through. It's a film that isn't concerned with feeding the viewer with one jump scare after another, preferring instead to focus on the build-up to these moments. It's about creating tension that heightens the delivery rather than just popping a jump scare in there to wake up the audience.
The sound design is meticulous, the camerawork is honestly some of the best I've ever seen in a horror film, and it's one of the rare examples where a child actor steals the show for the right reasons. Haunting and persisting, The Shining will forever be embedded into my brain.