The Shining 4K Blu-ray hits this Halloween!

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's THE SHINING will be getting a 4K restoration which is all set to premiere this Friday, May 17, at the Cannes Film Festival, where it will be introduced by filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron (GRAVITY, CHILDREN OF MEN). And today we have word that the 4K cut of the film will then be released on 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray and Digital) via Warner Bros. this October. 

“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” – or, rather, a homicidal boy in Stanley Kubrick’s eerie 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s horror novel. With wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and psychic son Danny (Danny Lloyd) in tow, frustrated writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as the winter caretaker at the opulently ominous, mountain-locked Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. Before the Overlook is vacated for the Torrances, the manager (Barry Nelson) informs Jack that a previous caretaker went crazy and slaughtered his family; Jack thinks it’s no problem, but Danny’s “shining” hints otherwise. Settling into their routine, Danny cruises through the empty corridors on his Big Wheel and plays in the topiary maze with Wendy, while Jack sets up shop in a cavernous lounge with strict orders not to be disturbed. Danny’s alter ego, “Tony,” however, starts warning of “redrum” as Danny is plagued by more blood-soaked visions of the past, and a blocked Jack starts visiting the hotel bar for a few visions of his own. Frightened by her husband’s behavior and Danny’s visit to the forbidding Room 237, Wendy soon discovers what Jack has really been doing in his study all day, and what the hotel has done to Jack.

I don't know about you, but I simply cannot wait to get my paws on this new restoration of the classic flick – especially with director Mike Flanagan's (THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, HUSH) adaptation of King's THE SHINING sequel novel DOCTOR SLEEP hitting in November. Bring it on!

THE SHINING was produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay he co-wrote with Diane Johnson based on the novel by Stephen King. The film starred Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, and Danny Lloyd. THE SHINING hits 4K Blu-ray and Digital on October 1, 2019.