Idependent Research (The Shining)

Title Name: The Shining 

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Setting:

The film The Shining is about a family that visit an isolated hotel during the winter as the father of the family as an interview for the position of a winter caretaker, with the aim of using the hotel's solitude to work on his writing. Not long being there, they find out that the hotel they will be staying at, has been built on top of a Indian Burial ground. During their stays at the hotel, they are trapped in by a snowstorm that had recently come their way and are told by the manager of the hotel that the last caretaker got cabin fever and killed himself and his family. Later on, an evil and spiritual presence which influences the father of the family to become violent, whichs sends him to try and kill his wife and son. While the violents are going on, his psychic son sees horrific forbodings from the past and the future, such as the ghosts that haunt the hotel within.

Cast:

• Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance
• Shelley Duvall as Wendy Torrance
• Danny Lloyd as Danny Torrance
• Scatman Crothers as Dick Hallorann
• Barry Nelson as Stuart Ullman
• Philip Stone as Delbert Grady
• Joe Turkel as Lloyd the bartender
• Anne Jackson as Doctor
• Tony Burton as Larry Durkin
• Barry Dennen as Bill Watson
• Lisa and Louise Burns as the Grady girls

Props (Weapons)  

Axe
An axe is a weapon that many horror films have used over the years such as this film, The Shining. One part of this film where the axe is being used, is when he is smashing through the door to get to his wife. This prop is very effective as it shows us as the audience and also the women in the situation FEAR. The axe is also used in the hallway scene, were the young boy sees the two twins laying dead in the hallway, From this scene you can see that there is blood all up the walls/ on the floor and you can also see that the axe covered in blood.

Knife
A knife is also a very common weapon that is used in many horror films. In the film, the shining, the knife is also used in the scene of the bathroom. However in this case the knife is being used as her defence, however the women does use it to keep her husband away.