All work and no game-play makes Jack a dull boy…
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Ah, the Overlook Hotel. Nestled among the majestic Rocky Mountains, this palatial retreat is so welcoming, you’ll never want to leave. And you’ll never be able to, if you succumb to its dark, mind-warping spirits and join their ghostly ranks as another of its permanent residents.
Adapting the 1980 Stanley Kubrick adaptation of Stephen King’s classic horror novel, this latest Prospero Hall offering sets aside the troubled Torrance family, including psychic sprog Danny, and simply casts its cooperating players as a crew of caretakers, presumably on some kind of sweet work-sharing deal; after all, ol’ Jack Torrance was able to do it all by himself. Well, up until the point he went ghost-crazy and attacked his wife and child with an axe.