Jack Torrance flytter sammen med hans kone og deres 5 årige søn Danny ind på det elegante, men isolerede Overlook Hotel i Colorados bjerge. Her har Jack fået job som vicevært i vintersæsonen. Han håber på at få ro til at skrive, - men efter meget kort tid opdager de, at hotellets bærer på mange grusomme hemmeligheder. Jack bliver gradvis mere utilregnelig og det går op for dem alle, hvor isoleret de er i bjergene.
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hotel, child abuse, based on novel or book, isolation, telepathy, delusion, grave, halloween, snowstorm, colorado, seclusion, surrealism, alcoholism, premonition, psychic power, caretaker, loneliness, vision, domestic violence, postmodern, psychological thriller, writer, twins, labyrinth, alcoholic, blizzard, mutilation, bloody body of child, extrasensory perception, uxoricide, motherhood, filicide, snowed in, burial ground, hypothermia, haunted hotel, psychological disintegration, paranoid, vexed, afi, frantic, pediatrician, repetition, mother son relationship, malicious, supernatural power, supernatural horror, ghost child, psychotronic film, writers-block, cabin fever, psychological horror, negative, deal with the devil, nuclear family, avant garde, yosemite national park, twin sisters, identical twins, arrogant, assertive, demeaning, enraged, frustrated, harsh, mean spirited, sardonic