The best horror of all times is back on the big screen for Halloween: Shining by Stanley Kubrick.

The best horror of all times is back on the big screen for Halloween, 40 years after the publication of the best seller with which Stephen King terrorised readers worldwide: Shining by Stanley Kubrick. A special event distributed in Italy by Nexo Digital together with its media partners Radio DEEJAY and MYMovies.it, the film will be screened at the cinema Massimo on 31 October and on 2 November, at 9.00 p.m. on Screen Two at the Cinema Massimo.

The film screening will be introduced by the unreleased short film titled Work and play, which is a tribute, as the more aware spectators will recall, to the sentence that Jack Torrance writes obsessively on his typewriter: “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” in the English version of the film. Admission 10.00/8.00 euro.

Stanley Kubrick drew one of his greatest masterpieces from the novel by Stephen King published in 1977 which greatly inspired him. The cult movie, filmed between 1978 and 1979, tells the story of Jack Nicholson aka Jack Torrance, a writer undergoing a crisis, who accepts a job as a janitor at the Overlook Hotel on the Rocky Mountains during the winter season, in order to retrieve his inspiration. He thus sets off with his wife Wendy and his seven year-old son, Danny, without knowing that this trip is going to change their lives forever…

Shining hitting the cinema represents an opportunity for the enjoyment on a big screen of the horror masterpiece of one of the greatest filmmakers of all times, Oscar winner Stanley Kubrick, who worked on the film with his customary manic precision, repeating scenes endlessly and thus managing to show us the most concealed and disquieting nooks of the human mind.