The Shining

Published on April 6, 2026

Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Mon., Apr. 6, 2026, 7 – 9:25 p.m.

Close-up of a young boy in bugs bunny / USA jersey lying down looking skeptically into the camera

Early in The Shining, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) refers to his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) as a “ghost story and horror film addict.” He might as well be alluding to the appetite of the film’s audience and priming them for a movie that both plays into and subverts expectations of the genre. The American psyche’s innate lust for violence and terror is a key theme in this notoriously free-wheeling Stephen King adaptation set in a haunted hotel built on an Indian burial ground high in the Rockies, where the Torrances, with toddler son in tow, come to care-take for a winter.

Gazette Classification: Film
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive
Cost: $10 - Regular Admission / $8 - Non-Harvard Students, Harvard staff and Senior Citizens. Harvard students free.
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