The Shining on screen

Stephen King's Overlook story has been interpreted as both an ambiguous feature film and a longer television adaptation built more directly from the novel.

This map covers the related screen works currently supported by PlotGeeks, rather than every adaptation ever made.

1. Source book | 1977The ShiningView book explainer →
2. 1980 | Feature filmThe ShiningAdapted from | Stanley Kubrick

   The film makes Jack threatening earlier, reduces the hotel's explanatory history, and replaces the novel's final boiler-room catastrophe.

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3. 1997 | MiniseriesStephen King's The ShiningAdapted from | Mick Garris

   Three television episodes retain more of Jack's struggle, the Overlook's history, Room 217, and the novel's ending.