In a genre full of so-called “scream queens,” it’s rare in a horror movie to find a particularly moving female victim who isn’t much more than a lamb being led to slaughter. In The Shining, Duval’s character Wendy Torrance is snowbound in a haunted hotel she and her abusive husband Jack are watching for the winter.
As the damned spirits drive Jack towards a murder spree against his family, the frail and weak-seeming Wendy struggles to maintain her sanity and protect herself and her young son.
What was happening off screen was just as terrifying. Kubrick, ever the infamously demanding director, spent the entire production – which ran for an excruciating 500 days – making Duvall’s life a living hell. On a daily basis, he would harangue her
As the damned spirits drive Jack towards a murder spree against his family, the frail and weak-seeming Wendy struggles to maintain her sanity and protect herself and her young son.
What was happening off screen was just as terrifying. Kubrick, ever the infamously demanding director, spent the entire production – which ran for an excruciating 500 days – making Duvall’s life a living hell. On a daily basis, he would harangue her