Jack Torrance is a teacher, and later became a writer. In order to get rid of the frustration form job, he applied the winter keeper at a hotel that far away from home, the hotel will closed for 5 months after the snow seal off the mountain, and there will be seclude from the world. The boss told Jack that his predecessor had killed his two daughters and his wife, reason is long isolation caused mental disease. Jack said that wouldn't happen, his family will love here.
Then, Jack and his wife Wendy and his son Danny lived in the hotel. Danny felt a bad feeling before went to the restaurant, but Jack ignored. Danny and the cook of the restaurant Dick Halloran both have the ability of foretelling the future and telepathy, Halloran called this ability "Shining". Halloran warn Danny do not enter the room 237 in any case.
In the hotel, Danny continued to see strange illusion, and he wrote the unknown meaning words "REDRUM" on his mother's room. When Jack is writing, his wife come to check his work, Jack will be irritably, won't let his wife view. Then Jack made a nightmare that he killed his wife and son. Once Danny wounded his neck, his wife think it is Jack hit his son. Jack start go to the hotel bar, to his surprise the bar supposed to be empty but there emerged a waitress. Danny later told Wendy he is injured in room 237, Jack went to room 237, but see an accident scene; then Jack again in the empty hall hotel witnessed a feast, and met the keeper who killed his family at 1970.
Jack believed that his wife leave the hotel will hinder his reputation and working. Doubts, speculation and imagination makes Jack and his wife have more disagreements. Wendy went to see Jack's writing, but she only see the stack of the paper are repeatedly print only one sentence: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, this show that Jack has lost his mind for a long time. Later in an argument, Wendy stun Jack, shut him in a storage room, but later the door was opened, Jack was put out. Jack was completely lost his mind. Jack picked up an axe try to kill his wife and son, in the tense moment Wendy saw "REDRUM" from the mirror, originally spelled "MURDER". Danny escaped through a window, and chef Halloran felt Danny was in danger through "the shining", arrived from Miami, was killed by Jack.
Jack chased his wife and son into the maze, and Jack was lost, finally was frozen to death, his wife and son left by the car of Halloran.
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