Анх нээлтээ хийхдээ кино шүүмжлэгчид болон зохиолчийн зүгээс тааруу үнэлгээ авч байсан Стэнли Кубрикийн бүтээл өдгөө аймшгийн киноны төрөлд томоохон байр суурь эзэлдэг болжээ.
Стивен Кингийн ижил нэрт зохиолоос сэдэвлэсэн The Shining кино 1980 онд нээлтээ хийхдээ Variety, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post зэрэг хэвлэлүүдээс сөрөг үнэлгээ авч байв. Тухайн үед шүүмжлэгчид найруулагч Стэнли Кубрикийг зохиолын утга санааг алдагдуулсан, дүрүүдийн зан төлөвийг хэт хялбарчилсан хэмээн буруутгаж, киног уйтгартай гэж дүгнэж байжээ. Зохиолч Стивен Кинг ч мөн тус киног харахад үзэсгэлэнтэй боловч агуулгын хувьд дутуу гэж үзэн, өөрийн сэтгэл ханамжгүй байгаагаа илэрхийлж байсан юм.
Гэсэн хэдий ч тус бүтээл нь тухайн үедээ Warner Bros.-ын хувьд амжилттай байж, нээлтийн долоо хоногтоо 626 мянган ам.долларын орлого олсон байна. Олон жилийн хугацаанд киноны үнэлэмж өсөж, өдгөө Variety, IndieWire, Empire зэрэг нэр хүндтэй хэвлэлүүдийн бүх цаг үеийн шилдэг аймшгийн киноны жагсаалтад дээгүүрт бичигдэх болжээ.
Стивен Кинг 1997 онд зохиолоороо өөрөө мини цуврал бүтээсэн бөгөөд хожим Майк Фланаганы найруулсан Doctor Sleep киног өөрийн зохиолтой уялдаа холбоотой болсон хэмээн сайшаасан байна. Тэрээр 2019 онд өгсөн ярилцлагадаа Doctor Sleep киног эх зохиолтойгоо гайхалтай уусаж чадсан бүтээл болсон гэдгийг онцолжээ.
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It’s been 26 years since a film widely considered to be one of the best horror movies of all time hit theaters. But when it was released, it wasn’t exactly received as the masterpiece it’s so lovingly referred to today.
The Shining was the third of Stephen King’s works to be adapted on screen—after 1976’s Carrie from Brian De Palma and the 1979 Salem’s Lot TV moniseries—and hailed from visionary director Stanley Kubrick, who already had Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange on his impressive resume.
Critics didn’t love it, and King himself famously derided Kubrick’s approach, but the movie was a hit for Warner Bros. at the time—taking in $626K opening weekend in just 10 theaters, against The Empire Strikes Back.
It has since been hailed as one of the all-time greatest horror movies, ranking highly in lists from Variety, IndieWire, and Empire, to name a few.
Critics Bash ‘The Shining’ In 1980
When the film was originally released, critics weren’t immediately enamored with Kubrick’s cold approach to King’s material. While Jack Nicholson’s Jack Torrance famously typed the phrase “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” over and over again in the movie, it’s the film itself some critics found dull.
In a scathing review, Variety wrote, “With everything to work with, director Stanley Kubrick has teamed with jumpy Jack Nicholson to destroy all that was so terrifying about Stephen King’s bestseller.”
“Kubrick sees things his own way, throwing 90% of King’s creation out,” the review continued, concluding, “The crazier Nicholson gets, the more idiotic he looks,” while, “Shelley Duvall transforms the warm sympathetic wife of the book into a simpering, semi-r——d hysteric.”
Calling it a “very talky movie,” the New Yorker wrote that while some of the special effects may impress, “we’re never drawn in by them, mesmerized.” The review added, “When we see a flash of bloody cadavers or observe a torrent of blood pouring from an elevator, we’re not frightened, because Kubrick’s absorption in film technology distances us.”
Gene Siskel for the Chicago Tribune called the film “a crashing disappointment,” saying it “contains virtually no thrills.” The Washington Post, meanwhile, said the movie was a “ponderous, lackluster distillation of Stephen King’s best-selling novel,” and “looms as the Big Letdown of the new film season.”
While the Los Angeles Times did say viewers would be “dazzled” by Nicholson’s performance, they felt the movie was “too grandiose to be the jolter that horror pictures are expected to be.” The review added that anyone “looking for a good scare” will be “disappointed.”
Stephen King’s Criticism
Stephen King famously criticized Kubrick’s adaptation of his work and has gone on the record with his disdain over the years. Despite believing the movie looks amazing, visually, he didn’t appreciate how Kubrick strayed from the book.
“I think The Shining is a beautiful film and it looks terrific and as I’ve said before, it’s like a big, beautiful Cadillac with no engine inside it,” he told Deadline in 2016. “When it opened, a lot of the reviews weren’t very favorable, and I was one of those reviewers. I kept my mouth shut at the time, but I didn’t care for it much.”
When asked how he felt about it now, he added, “I feel the same because the character of Jack Torrance has no arc in that movie. Absolutely no arc at all.”
Speaking with BBC, he also said he didn’t care for how Wendy Torrance was adapted, saying, “She’s basically just there to scream and be stupid, and that’s not the woman I wrote about.”
King later adapted the book himself for a 1997 miniseries of the same name (trailer above), which received a warm reception from critics. The author later wrote a follow-up to The Shining, Doctor Sleep, which Mike Flanagan then adapted.
Of that, King was a fan.
“All I can say is, Mike took my material, he created a terrific story, people who have seen this movie flip for it, and I flipped for it, too,” he said in 2019’. “Because he managed to take my novel of Doctor Sleep, the sequel, and somehow weld it seamlessly to the Kubrick version of The Shining, the movie. So, yeah, I liked it a lot.”
