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Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is less an adaptation of Stephen King's best-selling horror novel than a complete re-imagining of it from the inside out. In King's book, the Overlook Hotel is a haunted place that takes possession of its off-season caretaker and provokes him to murderous rage against his wife and young son. Kubrick's film is an existential Road Runner cartoon (his steadicam ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson
Directed By: Stanley Kubrick

Sidney Poitier directed (sadly without much distinction) this 1980 comedy teaming Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as New York knuckleheads who try their luck in California and are accused of robbing a bank. Most of the laughs concern their survival strategies in prison (at one point, Wilder decides to "reach out and talk" to some hulking murderer) and their plans to escape. Both performers are so ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown, JoBeth Williams, Miguel Ángel Suárez
Directed By: Sidney Poitier

Manufacturer: Columbia TriStar
Starring: Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Terry Kiser, Troy Beyer, Barry Bostwick
Directed By: Robert Klane

Manufacturer: 4 Front Video
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset
Directed By: George Seaton, Henry Hathaway

Manufacturer: Fantoma
Starring: Ernie Allo, Bruce Byron, Frank Carifi, Steve Crandell, Johnny Dodds
Directed By: Kenneth Anger

Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is less an adaptation of Stephen King's best-selling horror novel than a complete re-imagining of it from the inside out. In King's book, the Overlook Hotel is a haunted place that takes possession of its off-season caretaker and provokes him to murderous rage against his wife and young son. Kubrick's film is an existential Road Runner cartoon (his steadicam ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: David Baxt, Lia Beldam, Lisa Burns, Tony Burton, Scatman Crothers

Manufacturer: Lionsgate
Starring: Toby Keith, Rodney Carrington, Claire Forlani, Ted Nugent, Barry Corbin
Directed By: Michael Salomon

Manufacturer: Showtime Entertainment
Starring: Penn Jillette, Teller, CJ, Gene Hatcher, James Randi
Directed By: Christopher Poole, Cliff Selby, Joshua E. Kessler, Scott Firestone, Scott Schaefer

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Matthew Arkin, Raymond J. Barry, Alan Bates, Kelly Bishop, Ken Chapin
Directed By: Paul Mazursky

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: David Janssen, William Conrad, Barry Morse, Ed Nelson, Carroll O'Connor
Directed By: Abner Biberman, Alex March, Alexander Singer, Andrew McCullough, Christian Nyby