The Shining 45th anniversary

Kubrick’s magisterial chiller is a must-see in this newly remastered IMAX with Laser version for its 45th anniversary.

See a screening of this film with extended intro with Jan Harlan, Katharina Kubrick and Lisa and Louise Burns on 14 December.

  • Director

    Stanley Kubrick

  • With

    Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd

  • UK 1980. 144min

  • IMAX with Laser

  • Certificate

    15

There’s The Shining. And then there’s Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece watched on the UK’s largest screen. Come celebrate this deeply unsettling study in obsession with an exquisite newly remastered IMAX with Laser version fit for the biggest screen in the country.

Aspiring writer Jack Torrance travels to a remote Colorado hotel with his wife and son to take up the position of winter caretaker. In a place haunted by ghosts from the past, which his gifted son becomes all too aware of, Jack gradually loses his sanity. Kubrick’s ambition to make ‘the world's scariest movie’ was realised when he read Stephen King’s novel. The result, subject to years of critical discourse and re-evaluation, is as visually stunning as it is terrifying.

This is the rarely screened US theatrical version of the original release, extended cut.