A CLASSIC horror flick is to be shown in York in its entirety next week – just in time for Hallowe’en.
A few weeks after the original US release of The Shining in 1980, director Stanley Kubrick cut minutes from the ending – and then cut a further half-hour for the European release.
Next week’s screening at City Screen, York offers a rare opportunity to see the complete 144-minute version of the film on the big screen, including a number of deleted scenes and an unexpected coda.
The full version previews on Wednesday, with additional shows from Friday, when the Coney Street Picturehouse will also be screening Room 237 – a film about the making of The Shining.
For Hallowe’en, City Screen will have pumpkin-carving displays in the Riverside Bar from 7pm, with themed music and drinks.
Struggling author Jack (Nicholson) is installed as winter caretaker in an empty, snowbound hotel in the company of his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and psychically gifted son Danny (Danny Lloyd). But the hotel has a grim history, and as its dark soul begins to possess Jack, Danny too becomes enmeshed in its terrors.
“Based on the novel by Stephen King, Kubrick’s superb essay on fluorescent-lit horror, with its combination of bleak comedy, creepy atmosphere and sumptuously horrible visuals, was an instant genre classic,” says Dave Taylor of City Screen.
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