Movie fans, and even some fans of the book, love the visceral experience that Kubrick generated out of the King novel, even if it tends to eschew the more human component of the film to deliver a cracking ghost story.
Other fans more loyal to the book, and even Stephen King himself, despise this film for doing just that.
Stephen King adaptations are perhaps one of the most infamous examples of such views on film.
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