The Shining follows Jack Torrance (played by Jack Nicholson), a writer and recovering alcoholic who takes a job as the winter caretaker of the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado. He moves in with his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and young son Danny (Danny Lloyd), who possesses a psychic ability known as “the shining”—a gift that allows him to see the hotel’s terrifying past and communicate telepathically.

As the winter deepens, the hotel’s supernatural forces begin to affect Jack, slowly driving him mad. Haunted by ghosts, visions, and a mysterious presence in Room 237, Jack becomes increasingly violent, culminating in a terrifying descent into madness and a desperate fight for survival for Wendy and Danny.

Initially, it was met with mixed reviews but is now considered one of the greatest horror films ever made.