This praise, unfortunately, didn’t come from The Shining’s author, Stephen King, who famously disliked Kubrick’s interpretation of his work.
Based on the way The Shining is praised today, it’s honestly hard to believe it received mixed reviews when it first hit theaters back in 1980.
While that film didn’t perform well at the box office, it has managed to find plenty of success since it hit streaming.
The public consensus of the film wouldn’t begin to change until several years later and, by the early 2000s, it was receiving serious recognition.
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