Sometimes a Film Sticks With You
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by: Nicoh Chen
Hello fans and listeners of our podcast. Thank you so much for the love and support. Nicoh here and I was born February 6th 1991. The reason I put my birthday was just to signify how much older this film I’m writing about is than I am. Not that it’s that important honestly because I LOVE the older slasher movies as well such as Carpenters 1978 Halloween, the Friday the 13th franchise and the first few Nightmare On Elm Street films. On May 16th, a Saturday morning, I rented The Shining on amazon prime for our next film review. I had never seen that movie until that morning. I went into this movie with the “man I can’t wait for these 2.5 hours to be over with” and lemme tell ya, I was very surprised!
Within the first 10 minutes my whole poor attitude had been changed. Jack Nicholson during his interview had me drawn in. I was like a largemouth bass just staring at that worm on the bottom. It wasn’t much longer and I was hooked. I only knew very little of this movie going into it. The iconic scenes such as “Heres Johnny” or Danny seeing the sisters at the end of the hallway was all I knew of really. This film was honestly incredible, start to finish. Nicholson’s performance is one of the best I’ve ever seen. Not only in horror but cinema period.
The reason I’m writing this is because a month later this film still is sticking with me. Since we recorded that episode I’ve relistened several times. I’ve watched scenes on YouTube, film analysis and breakdowns of it. The two best scenes that stick with me most are the staircase scene “Wendy, darling, light of my life” and when he first chops the door down and says “Wendy, I’m home” just an incredible display of slipping into madness portrayed by Jack Nicholson. This is the only Kubrick film I’ve seen but I was extremely impressed. We’ve done over 40 film reviews and no other movie has made me feel some type of way like that one did. So bravo to Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Cruthers, and of course Mr Stanley Kubrick, on making an incredible film that 40 years later still can shake someone to their core.