- Date: May 23, 1980
- Type: Movie
This Movie is referred to by It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year part of Six Feet Under Season 2
On Christmas Day, Claire tells Toby that one Christmas, the plumbing backed up while her father was embalming someone in the basement, and blood was squirting out of a hose. She says it was like a scene from 'The Shining'.
The film tells the story of a writer, Jack Torrance, who accepts the job of the winter caretaker at a hotel which always gets snowed in during the winter. While his family looks around the hotel during closing day, the psychic hotel cook discovers the psychic abilities of Jack's son Danny, and Danny's ability to detect ghostly presences in the hotel. In the cook's family, this ability is called "shining". When the hotel becomes snowbound, Jack Torrance is driven crazy by the ghosts in the hotel, and he tries to murder his wife and son.