Suspense In The Shining

The Shining was released into theaters in1980 and became a horror movie classic, but what scenes in the film helped build suspense towards the climax where the main character is attacking his family? The film overall storyline involves a man named Jack Torrance who getting a new job as a caretaker to a hotel during the winter season. During this season he will be living with just his family because the hotel closes down completely due to its harsh winter storms, but the caretaker is suppose to keep up with the hotel maintenance. Although when Jack and his family are staying at the hotel they all begging to experience supernatural events that leads them, mainly Jack, to madness. In his madness Jack kills a man who wanted to help get the family out of the hotel and attempt to kill his wife and child, however, his family manage to survive Jacks madness leaving him to freeze to death. Therefore, this film heavily features supernatural horror events that contribute to the build up of suspense of the main character attacking his family. …show more content…
This is indicated in the early credits of the film where the camera was focused on a car driving alone on a mountainside going to the hotel. The camera in this moment is also showing multiple angles of the car just deriving, which creates a sense of isolation. In this moment the audience realized that this hotel is far form any towns or civilization. Any thing that could happen at the hotel can only be handle by the Torrance family. This is where the audience can go out of their way with making multiple accusation of what could happen to the family. They can speculate the possibility of a stranger finding his or her way to the hotel to then murder the family or a wild animal