From a script he co-adapted from the Stephen King novel, director Stanley Kubrick melds vivid performances, menacing settings, dreamlike tracking shots and shock after shock into a milestone of the macabre. In a signature role, Jack Nicholson (Heeeeres Johnny!) plays Jack Torrance, whos come to the elegant, isolated Overlook Hotel as off-season caretaker with his wife (Shelley Duval) and son (Danny Lloyd). Torrance has never been there before or has he? The answer lies in a ghostly time warp of madness and murder.