Quote Originally Posted by Bohandas View Post
Unfortunately, it's supposed to be a horror film.
It's still a horror film. It's just not that supernatural of a horror film. The Shining is a movie about the horrors of isolation, domestic abuse, and alcoholism. Mostly, anyway. There's also the supernatural horror element, cause the movie strongly implies that there totally are ghosts and such. But even without the ghosts, it's still horror. Maybe even more effective horror. I tend to think that the movie would have been stronger without confirmation that this ghost stuff is real, because that'd make it even scarier. Think about it. Our world likely doesn't have ghosts, and incredibly likely doesn't have ghosts that interact with our world, so we have less to fear from a story where ghosts manipulate the protagonists/antagonists into violence. Scarier is a story, like this one, where the horror comes from incredibly practical and normal stuff that could absolutely happen in real life.