The Shining

Frequent nightmarish horror imagery: the bloodied corpses of two twin girls known to have been murdered with an axe several years ago, rivers of blood gush through the elevators of the lobby, an elderly man with a hatchet in his head and blood dripping down his face. In real-time moments, a man is killed when another man strikes him in the chest with an axe. A man who has lost his mind attempts to kill his wife and child with an axe. His wife knocks him unconscious by hitting him in the head with a baseball bat.

Full-frontal nudity -- an attractive young woman turns into an elderly woman with rotting skin. Implied oral sex in a sequence of nightmarish imagery involving someone dressed in an animal costume and the bartender. A painting of a nude woman prominently displayed in the apartment of the hotel chef.

"N" word used in one scene. "F--k." "A--holes." "Goddamn." "Hell."

Adult characters smoke cigarettes. Cigar smoking. 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.

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. Blood flows throughout this film -- literally -- in several notorious scenes. There are axe murders and decomposed bodies. The main character, a recovering alcoholic, slowly goes insane and aims to kill his family. He verbally abuses his wife throughout most of the film. There's some alcohol and cigarette use. 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. 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. Full-frontal nudity -- an attractive young woman turns into an elderly woman with rotting skin. Implied oral sex in a sequence of nightmarish imagery.

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