The Shining (2024 Remake)

The Shining is an upcoming horror film, based on the Stephen King book of the same name. The film is intended to follow the book closer than the original Kubrick version.

Plot
John Daniel Edward "Jack" Torrance's alcoholism and explosive temper lose him his prep school teaching job. After losing his temper and attacking his psychic son, Danny, he promises his wife, Wendy, that he will quit drinking. 1 year later, Jack has been sober and trying to become a writer, but struggles with his writers block. When his friend, Al Shockley, tells him about a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, Wendy tells him that the peace and quiet would help him focus on writing.

Jack goes to the hotel to discuss the job, where he is told about the boiler by Stuart Ullman, the hotel's general manager, and meets the hotel cook, Dick Hallorann. While Bill Watson, Stuart's right hand man, doesn't trust Jack due to his history with alcohol, Jack insists he has been sober for 14 months. Danny's imaginary friend, Tony, tells Danny about Jack getting the job and Danny tells his mother. When Jack returns, Danny has a vision of a sledgehammer covered in blood. That night, Danny has a vision of the Overlook Hotel with several scary images, including a snow storm, the word 'Redrum' and Jack wielding a sledgehammer.

Jack takes his family to the hotel, where Hallorann meets Danny, who reveals that he also has psychic powers, which his grandmother called 'The Shining'. Jack and his family are told that they can help themselves to the food in the kitchen but must stay out of the guest rooms, except for the one they're staying in, Hallorann also tells Danny to avoid room 217. Jack finds out about the previous caretaker, Delbert Grady, who Hallorann reveals killed his 2 children and his wife, before committing suicide with a shotgun. While cleaning up the hotel, Jack finds a scrapbook, which he uses as an idea for his book, 'A History of the Overlook Hotel'.

Danny explores the hotel where he encounters a pair of twin girls covered in blood. Danny locks himself in the bathroom where he is attacked by a swarm of wasps. After Jack and Wendy help Danny, Wendy takes the Snowcat to get some groceries while Jack works on the boiler. Danny hears voices coming from outside telling him to go to room 217, where Tony warns him against going inside, Danny is attacked by a fire hose, but he is able to escape.

Danny goes to Ullman's office to get the key to room 217, but Jack catches him and berates him for not listening to the rules. Later, when Jack is refueling the Snowcat, he hears the hedge statues making noises. Danny sneaks the key to room 217 and enters to see a decaying woman in the room's bathtub, which scares him, before dragging him back into the room. When Wendy and Jack see Danny with bruises, Wendy assumes Jack is responsible, but Jack assures her he is innocent.

Jack goes to room 217, with a Roque mallet in hand, but only finds the bathtub empty and dry. Jack leaves to see how Danny is and finds him on the swings outside, but panics when he sees the hedge statues approaching Danny. Jack tries to stop them, but when he reaches, the statues are back to their normal places, and brings Danny inside. That night, Jack uses a sledgehammer to smash up the radio and Snowcat, but in the morning, has no memory of breaking anything.

The Torrances notice the elevator has been moving on it's own and Wendy climbs inside, finding party masks and confetti, while she's inside, the doors slam shut and lock her inside, Jack is able to open the doors to get her out, but they slam on her leg, injuring her. Danny goes to the bathroom, when he finds the word 'REDRUM' on the wall, which he sees spelling 'MURDER' in the bathroom mirror. The fright makes Danny contact Hallorann to come help.

Danny goes to find his parents when he runs into a man wearing a dog mask, who mocks him. Danny admits he doesn't find the man scary, until the man removes his mask, revealing he has no head. Danny runs off and the man chases him. Jack heads to the ballroom to clean up some party stuff, when he spots people in the mirror, the ghosts of the Hotel enter the ballroom and throw a masked ball, while the hotel's previous caretaker, Grady, appears behind the bar and gives Jack a drink. In spite promising to never drink again, Jack gives in and starts drinking again. Grady tells Jack that Wendy and Danny are turning against him, and the only option is to kill him.

When Wendy arrives at the ballroom, Jack jumps out from behind the bar and attacks her, but she fights him off with a bottle of scotch. Wendy and Danny drag Jack to the kitchen and lock him in the store room, but Grady lets him out. Jack takes a sledgehammer and searches for Wendy and Danny. Jack finds Wendy in the lobby and breaks her other leg with the hammer, but she is still able to get away and hide in a bathroom, but Jack uses the hammer to break down the door, telling her to 'Take your medicine'. Wendy knocks down Jack with a cricket ball. When Jack wakes up, Grady tells him that Hallorann has arrived.

Jack encounters Hallorann in the lobby and beats him down, before knocking him out with the sledgehammer. Tony tells Danny that the boiler is about to blow when he shows him a vision of the boiler room on fire.

Jack finds Danny and prepares to kill him with the hammer, when Danny tells him about the boiler. Jack snaps back to sanity and drops the hammer, rushing to work on the boiler while Danny, Wendy and Hallorann escape. As they get into Hallorann's car, the boiler explodes, destroying the hotel and killing Jack.

Years later, Danny graduates high school, where he sees the ghost of his father congratulating him. Back in Colorado, the Overlook is being rebuilt, as the ghosts of the original hotel await potential victims.

Cast
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