
Blood rushes out an elevator, the scene is shown a few times but only lasts a few seconds. A man tries to kill his wife and son with an axe.

Violence: 5/5- The film is about Jack's decent into madness which is very disturbing. Implied oral sex in a sequence of nightmarish imagery.

Full-frontal nudity - an attractive young woman turns into an elderly woman with rotting skin. There's occasional profanity, including a scene in which the cook of the hotel is called the "N" word and a use of "f-k." Frequent horror imagery. The main character's wife discusses with a child psychologist a recent incident in which her husband came home drunk and physically abused their son Danny. He verbally abuses his wife throughout most of the film. The main character, a recovering alcoholic, slowly goes insane and aims to kill his family. There are axe murders and decomposed bodies. Blood flows throughout this film - literally - in several notorious scenes. Parents need to know that The Shining is the classic 1980 Stanley Kubrick-directed film based on the Stephen King novel about a man hired to be the caretaker of a hotel deep in the mountains of Colorado who develops severe dementia from a combination of "cabin fever" and the dark and haunted past of the hotel. Talk of Jack's alcoholic past in scenes in which Jack's nightmarish delusions are brought to life, he drinks whiskey in the hotel ballroom.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.
