The Shining

The Shining was not only good as a horror film just because of the blood and killing, but every random piece added into it, as well as the camera angles. From the beginning, the audience knew that room 237 had some significance, but the suspense was left there because we didn't know WHY it had significance. Once Danny had gone into the room because of a door left open, I think that's when it really clicked that this movie had a different type of horror feel to it. As Jack gets progressively crazier, it adds to the scariness. For example, when he goes to check in room 237 for a “crazy lady in the bathtub”, he finds this naked women, and in the end realizes she is old and crippled and really frightening. When he goes back to the room where Wendy and Danny are, he tells Wendy there was nothing unusual there. It’s a bit suspicious because there is no reason he wouldn't tell Wendy what happened. The camera angles throughout the movie also added the horror because they weren’t typical angles. There were shots below the actors (with Jack in the walk-in) and shots from the actors’ point of view, as well as looking up at them. These made you feel like you were IN the movie, and experience the suspense and horror the same ways that the characters do. When Wendy is in the bathroom, we see Jacks face from almost the same angle that Wendy sees it, which adds to the horror of him breaking down the door.