That shot of Kubrick and the actors at the end. Kubrick is perfectly relaxed and Jack and Shelley are like, please, God, don't make us do it again

I think the isolation plays a big part in how scary the movie is.

The thing that scared me the most in the movie is how jack's eyebrows have a life of their own

The Shining is profoundly disturbing, it's a psychological thriller dressed up as horror.
The Shining is a masterpiece!

When you were talking about something, I remembered a line I once heard about horror.
The point isn't to give you a fright while you're already tense. The point of horror is to make a safe place seem dangerous.

Probably the scariest thing ab The Shining is how Kubrick treated Shelly Duval.

One thing that I always found unsettling is the fact that Lloyd(bartender) and Delbert(butler) NEVER blink.

“A story of a man and his family quietly going insane together” gives me the heebie jeebies as a phrase.

one thing I found that made it so creepy is how the hotels layout makes literally zero sense. For example in Ullmans office the window behind him is physically impossible, really plays with your mind.

For me, the scariest part for me was definitely when she found the book he had been writing. I don't know why, but for some reason it made me the most uneasy, thinking of him sitting there typing the same sentence over and over all day, with different indents and all. The insanity of it really got to me, like I could look up some time and see that what I had been working on wasn't at all what I thought it was.

I first saw this on TV when I was home sick in middle school. I had enjoyed some slasher movies before and recognized certain scenes from The Shining being repeatedly parodied in other media. But nothing could have prepared me for how unsettling this movie was (and still is). It didn't outright scare me, it was just so... off. I remember first watching the long uncut scenes of Danny riding his bike through the halls, the sound of the wheel going from carpet to hardwood floor to carpet again, and wondering why this was so mesmerizing, why it made me so uncomfortable, why just seeing a kid riding his noisey bike around somehow wasn't boring or annoying. Kubrick is a genius.

My friend hated The Shining. He told me it was overrated and not scary at all.
I told him horror is almost as subjective as comedy.
However, there is something special about The Shining. I think its power comes from a deep psychological fear of the unknown. There is so much unexplained, so much unseen, and left to the imagination in The Shining. You can build tension and fear in a film, but once you reveal the "monster" or the source of the horror, the tension recedes and the final act usually revolves around survival or destruction of the monster. Alien, The Thing, Jaws; these films masterfully build suspense and take you on a rollercoaster ride of emotions. Once the film ends, though, the story feels complete.
When I first watched The Shining, the ending felt incomplete. I felt uneasy. Like something was still lingering in my mind. Something intangible. What is The Shining really about anyway? There are thousands of different opinions and answers on that simple question alone.
There is some truly strange cinematography in that film. Desks and furniture move around from scene to scene with no explanation. Impossible windows appear and disappear. Is the hotel alive? Is this a ghost story? What evil is corrupting Jack? What is a hallucination and what isn't? People's imaginations run wild here. In the end the protagonists escape. But your imagination is still held captive.
I love that the film can create an atmosphere of dread, in daylight, in a non-typical horror setting or fashion. Yet, I still can't quite explain why or what I am even dreading. Real life horror doesn't include horrific aliens or flesh eating zombies, so there is a safe psychological distance from those stories. I think real life horror can include the fear of insanity. Of a brain that turns against you, of not being able to discern reality from illusion. And the creeping paranoia, the inexplicable dread, of the unknown.

I love The Shinning for how it terrifies you by letting you see EVERYTHING with wide, bright, open shots leaving you asking “why can’t I see the threat???” rather than darkness/restricted view giving the unease like most horror.

I'm just down here in the comments so I don't have to see the scenes from the movie

For me the thing that was so scary about the shining was the cinematography - when somebody was walking down a corridor, you always see it from their perspective, and every corner they turn seems like something there is going to be hiding there

Creepiest part of the movie to me was what Kubrick put Duvall through.

I think this movie has become scarier to me as I've aged. There's something of the entropic nihilism in it that worms into my aging/despairing psyche. Great video!

I hate when people say this movie isn’t “Scary”

It's social distancing time and I get this recommended to me.
Woah, ok Youtube.

I love the music for this movie.  Even when nothing happens, the music rises, to let us know the hotel is always watching.