杰克认为妻子想离开饭店妨碍了他的信誉和工作。种种的怀疑,种种的猜测,种种的想像,使杰克和妻子产生争执并愈演愈烈。温迪前往查看杰克写作的结果,却看到成叠的纸上都反反复复的只打印着一句话:All work and no play makes Jack a doll boy(只工作、不娱乐,杰克变成了一个傻瓜),表示杰克已经失去理智多时了。后来在一场争执中,温迪打晕杰克,把他关进了储藏室;但是随伴随着格瑞第的声音,门被打开了,杰克被放了出来……完全失去理智的杰克拿起斧头砍向妻子的房门要杀死妻子和儿子,在这紧张时刻温迪从镜子里看到了丹尼在房门上写的“REDRUM”,原来是反过来写的“MURDER”(谋杀)。丹尼从窗户逃走,而厨师哈罗朗早先感受到了丹尼通过“闪灵”传来的预感,从迈阿密赶到,却被杰克砍死。
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
Director..........: Stanley Kubrick
Writers...........: Stephen King (Novel), Diane Johnson Stanley Kubrick (SP)
Starring..........: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd