The Shining

For this domestic nightmare, Stanley Kubrick took a Stephen King best seller and infused it with his own demons and obsessions, creating a tour de force of dreamlike dread and disturbing ambiguity. Sequestered for the winter at the snowbound Overlook Hotel, a frustrated writer (Jack Nicholson), his increasingly fearful wife (Shelley Duvall), and their psychic son (Danny Lloyd) are plunged into a vortex of madness and violence—a psychosis that seems to emanate from the haunted, labyrinthine corridors of the building itself. Channeling historical trauma and contemporary anxieties about failed masculinity into images of surreal, subliminal power, Kubrick constructs a maelstrom of psychological terror that stands as one of the most endlessly analyzed horror films ever made.

United Kingdom, United States
1980
144 minutes
Color
1.85:1
English

Special Features

4K digital restorations of the U.S. theatrical and international versions of the film, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks
Two 4K UHD discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the films and special features
New 4K restoration of Making “The Shining” (1980) by Vivian Kubrick, director Stanley Kubrick’s daughter, with audio commentary featuring the filmmaker
Audio commentaries featuring Stanley Kubrick biographer John Baxter and Steadicam operator Garrett Brown as well as filmmaker Lee Unkrich (editor of the book Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”)
Three archival documentaries: Staircases to Nowhere (2013, expanded 2026), View from the Overlook (2007), and Work & Play (2017)
Six Kinds of Light (1983), a documentary on cinematographer John Alcott
Shine On (2024), a documentary short by Paul King about the last surviving Elstree Studios shooting location from the film
Archival interviews with composer Wendy Carlos and actor Scatman Crothers
“30 Impossible Shots” (1974), Brown’s Steadicam show reel
Trailers
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

Available In

Collector's Set

The Complete Kubrick

4K UHD+Blu-ray Combo Box Set

30 Discs

$479.96

Special Features

4K digital restorations of the U.S. theatrical and international versions of the film, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks
Two 4K UHD discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the films and special features
New 4K restoration of Making “The Shining” (1980) by Vivian Kubrick, director Stanley Kubrick’s daughter, with audio commentary featuring the filmmaker
Audio commentaries featuring Stanley Kubrick biographer John Baxter and Steadicam operator Garrett Brown as well as filmmaker Lee Unkrich (editor of the book Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”)
Three archival documentaries: Staircases to Nowhere (2013, expanded 2026), View from the Overlook (2007), and Work & Play (2017)
Six Kinds of Light (1983), a documentary on cinematographer John Alcott
Shine On (2024), a documentary short by Paul King about the last surviving Elstree Studios shooting location from the film
Archival interviews with composer Wendy Carlos and actor Scatman Crothers
“30 Impossible Shots” (1974), Brown’s Steadicam show reel
Trailers
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing