Best horror films of all-time The Shining

The retailer play.com used a heart rate monitor on film watchers to assess what horror films set pulses racing. The ‘Here’s Johnny’ scene in which Jack Nicholson peers through a hole in a door he has just created with an axe came up on top.

The rest of the film isn’t any less scary as a writer coops his family up in an empty Colorado hotel for the winter.

Stanley Kubrick creates tension at every turn, especially when he follows Danny riding his bicycle along the corridors.

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