The Shining has a lot of unsettling elements, including creepy twins, an elevator full of blood, and an early depiction of a furry. But the real reason why the film is terrifying is very simple.

There have been a lot of creepy kids in the history of horror, but the murdered hallway twins and young psychic Danny Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" are easily among the best.

If it wasn’t cold enough in Northwest Ohio, the wife and I took a trip to visit our adult son and daughter-in-law in Colorado ...