History Film / TheShining

Although it achieved decent commercial success at the box office, the film was seen as a critical disappointment at the time of its release, notably and infamously receiving two [[UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzie]] nominations for Worst Director (Kubrick) and Worst Actress (Duvall), as preposterous as it may be to believe now.[[note]]Duvall's nomination was rescinded on March 31, 2022 following revelations of Kubrick's extremely demanding and abusive treatment of her on set.[[/note]] The film's most notable detractor was [[CreatorBacklash Stephen King himself]], who ''hated'' it for the numerous alterations and creative liberties Kubrick took with the film compared to the events of the novel, to the point that he would choose to write and produce his own more faithful adaptation of the book as a TV miniseries in 1997.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy:
** In the book, Mr. Ullman is a condescending, overbearing, SmugSnake who epitomizes everything Jack hates about authority figures and makes it clear that he doesn't want Jack at the hotel. In the film, he is very friendly, polite, concerned for Jack's and his family's wellbeing, and he completely approves of Jack being the caretaker.

* AffablyEvil: Lloyd. At first he seems like a friendly, if somewhat strange, bartender. As his conversations with Jack go on, however, he becomes more and more sinister, rarely blinking and always with a creepy smirk on his face.

* ChekhovsGun: The store room in the kitchen. Hallorann shows it to Wendy and Danny early on, then after knocking out Jack with a baseball bat, Wendy locks him in there.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: As Wendy and Danny find their way around the maze, Jack is seen getting lost in looking over a scale model of it inside the hotel. At the end of the film, he chases Danny into the maze [[spoiler:and gets lost in it, freezing to death, while Danny is able to escape.]]

-->'''Stuart Ullman:''' By five o'clock tonight, you'll never know anybody was ever here.\\

* HistoryRepeats: From the start of the film, during his interview for the winter caretaker job, Jack is warned that the last guy who took the job murdered his family and then himself. [[AxCrazy Take three guesses as to what happens to Jack]] [[SanitySlippage over the course of the film]]...

** Before breaking the bathroom door, Jack quotes the Big Bad Wolf from ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs''.

* TemptingFate: Jack tells Ullman that solitude and isolation will not become problems for him while looking after the hotel and that his family will love it.