The Shining Sequel.

The TV version of the Shining was a load of pap, whenever King has got directly involved in the recreation of of his novels as TV shows or films they have been complete failures, remember Maximum Overdrive which he also directed?, absolute pap.

Just pay King for the rights to his written work and keep him as far away from the creative process as possible.
 
Quite a few in flashback though. There was also a tidal wave of blood coming out of the lift.

The TV series was unwatchable in my opinion. I find that with certain mini series. Also found the remake of the (ok it was a mini series) Salem's Lot risible and (although not King) the mini series of The Andromeda Strain terrible
 
I felt the opposite. I really disliked the film, The Shining, and thought it was badly cast. The TV show was exactly what I imagined the book to be.
 
YES! YES!

I thought Rebecca DeMornay was a terrific Wendy. The story of The Shining was about a normal family with some internal troubles who slowly, over a long period, turned in on themselves at the Overlook.

The film was about three freaks who went to a castle of freaks and the head freak thought it'd be fun to run around with an axe for a bit.

Even putting aside how much the story was changed, I couldn't stand any of the three main cast members. Jack Nicholson just played a madman from the first minute of the film and was intensely difficult to like. Wendy was useless, nothing but a simpering wreck from start to end. The little boy was just... odd.

I really got the cabin fever atmosphere from the series, but not the film.
 
Did you actually watch Kubrick's version close enough? If so, you'll have noticed it's Wendy who checks with the authorities over the radio when the weather comes in, Wendy who checks the hotel's machinery & boilers, i.e. she does the jobs we'd expect to see Jack to do as careteker while he goes barmy with his 'writing project'. Later, when the madness erupts, she fenRAB off Jack (twice - and locks him up), saves Danny and drives him to safety.

Sure, the ghostly apparitions (and axemen Jack lurking anywhere) turn her into a nervous wreck - but that's understandable, isn't it? Previously she'd been unaware of them in the way Danny and Jack hadn't been, so it was all bound to shock. She's no Sarah Connor, but useless? Anything but. The central character's differing psychological strengths and weaknesses are one of the many underlying themes of this deeply nuanced film, typical of its director.

As for people preferring the cheaply-shot, laughably inept TV version to Kubrick's sublime, troubling vision, well....pearls before swine springs to mind :p
 
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