Heeerrre’s Johnny, and those damn creepy twins

‘Heeerrre’s Johnny!” Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining will return to theatres in Bangkok for a special one-off screening on March 15 at the Scala, Siam Square. Yes, that Shining, the film with an axe-wielding Jack Nicholson, a screaming Shelley Duvall, and those creepy twin sisters. If you’ve always wanted to see this classic horror on the big screen but have never had the opportunity, now’s your chance.

Brought to you by the Thai Film Archive and as part of its “World Class Cinema” programme, the 1980 film is generally considered one of the all-time best horror films and widely regarded as one of the scariest films ever made. The Shining paved the way for a resurgence of modern day supernatural and psychological horrors like The Conjuring, The Witch, Get Out, and Hereditary.

Based on Stephen King’s 1977 novel, The

Shining stars Nicholson as Jack Torrance, a frustrated writer who takes a job as the winter caretaker at the remote, mountain-locked — and very haunted — Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. Jack has never been to this place before — or has he? The answer lies in a ghostly time warp of madness and murder as Jack later starts to lose his mind to great insanity, threatening the lives of his wife (Shelly Duvall) and young son Danny (Danny Lloyd). In 2013 King wrote a sequel to The

Shining called Doctor Sleep, which was also adapted into a film, directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson and Alexandra Essoe.