American Ghost Story:
The Shining, The Jazz Singer, Invisible Man
I've been sick recently, and have thus had the time and lack of energy to do two things I rarely do: not think and watch movies.
However, being me, and feeling better, these movies (and a novel I read at the same time) have inevitably sparked an enormous number of thoughts in me, which I will now inflict on you, dear reader.
To be a Ghost
The Shining (1980) is a great horror movie that is centered on the rejection of almost everything that has made horror a popular genre. There are no jump scares in the movie--there is precious little gore--there is even little or no psychological horror in the conventional sense. And yet it is precisely when Kubrick does deploy such elements that the uniqueness of the film becomes most striking.
