I love the beginning of the movie, seeing the road that lead to the hotel is rather amazing. I don’t care how old the movie is, it’s still one of the best horror movies ever made. I must admit the little kid is rather scary. Seeing him talk with his pinky in the bathroom mirror gets me every time. Well that and the fact that little Tony lives in his mouth. I also found it strange that the family takes a drive and talk about cannibalism as if it’s nothing wrong with it, as if it was okay to talk about something like that in front on a child.
The film itself is rather confusing and making a review on this is rather hard. I think there are different ways to look at it but of course i will go only with the way i saw it. It’s a slow movie. This for me made it hard for me to keep my focus on the movie. It’s the story of a normal family that goes off to take care of an old hotel with a bad reputation. A murder happened in room 237 and people started to tell ghost stories about this. Apparently the guy there went crazy. Same thing that is going to happend to Jack and in my opinion Danny.
Now the actors. I think there is nothing to say about Mister Jack’s performance. The man is a pure genius. Period. The leading lady is okay but for some reason i have trouble believing in her character. She doesn’t seem like a real person to me. As for Danny I think the kid is bloody brilliant. The way he talks and the voice he has when Tony talks to him is just not something you would expect in a kid.