Based on Stephen King’s bestselling 1977 novel, The Shining (1980) is a singular type of horror film directed by one of cinema’s most singular filmmakers.

In Episode 6 of EveryMan: The Masculinity in Cinema Podcast, film critics Kat Ellinger and Martyn Conterio praise Stanley Kubrick’s haunted house frightener for revealing very ugly truths about certain types of men and what makes it one of the greatest horror movies ever made.