Tag: The Shining
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ANALYSIS: Mommy’s Little Monsters – Motherhood in Horror
This Mother’s Day, Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana unpacks the darker side of motherhood… There is very little else in the entirety of a person’s life that is as frightening as reproducing, giving birth to and raising a tiny human whose survival instinct – unlike that of most animals – doesn’t kick in properly until their late teens. […]
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31 DAYS OF HORROR #15: Richard Waters & Alison Scarff on THE SHINING (1980)
Director / Producer partners Richard Waters and Alison Scarff – whose latest Bring Out The Fear (2021) is currently tearing up the festival circuit – book a stay at The Overlook Hotel… What is there left to say about Stanley Kubrick’s iconic adaptation of Stephen King’s masterpiece The Shining? A film that is so entrenched […]
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ANALYSIS: Masculinity and Monstrous Fatherhood in THE SHINING
“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.” Stephen King, The Shining When thinking of bad fathers, we might immediately recall the lunacy of Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) in Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining (1980): breaking through the door with his axe, shouting “Here’s Johnny” […]
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