Today is "The Shining"
Starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall
When Jack Torrance (Nicholson) brings his small family to the Overlook Hotel for a winter-shift job as a caretaker and there's no earthly reason why it cannot be turned into a ski resort in the off season, in the middle of mountains and hills that suits such winter sports and activities, you gotta wonder if the place is haunted. Wendy (Duvall) wasn't going to say anything about the story Jack was writing but it did seem odd that it was the same lines over and over again since it was a terrible waste of carbon ribbon. But it wasn't just that, their son did a lot of 'shining' which is the telepathic connection he was making with the unrested spirits at the hotel. Jack took it one step further and not only talked with the ghosts, but ordered drinks! And made them on the house!
Jack begins his descent into madness and eventually sees himself as a lumberjack and everyone else as a tree! With an ax handy and dozens of ghosts and two real people to swing at, he lets loose. His wife and son end up getting the better of him in a massive maze covered in snow. Still nobody thinks of skiing on outta there, nobody even thinks about restocking the bar which might have kept Jack busy enough being passed out, or typing up repeated lines instructing him to trim the hedges until he passes out from that instead. Either way passed out. Key survival methods here.
This has been my Movie Review! Timber!
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