The Shining is set to be shown at cinemas across the UK for one night only

To give movie buffs a real thrill this Halloween, horror film classic, The Shining is set to be shown at cinemas across the UK for one night only– including right here in Essex.

Master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick’s visually haunting chiller, which first hit the big screen in 1980, is based on the bestseller by master-of-suspense Stephen King, is an undeniable contemporary classic.

Newsweek called The Shining “the first epic horror film,” full of indelible images, and a signature role for Jack Nicholson whose character was recently selected by the American Film Institute as one of their 50 Greatest Villains.

All work and no play makes Oscar-winning actor Nicholson - the caretaker of an isolated resort - go way off the deep end, terrorising his young son and wife (Shelley Duvall).

Nicholson plays Jack Torrance, who’s come to the elegant, isolated Overlook Hotel nestled in the Colorado Rockies as off-season caretaker. Torrance has never been there before or has he? The answer lies in a ghostly time warp of madness and murder.

Accompanying the film is Work and Play: a short film about The Shining (2017), directed by Matt Wells for Park Circus.  This seven minute long documentary brings together new personal reflections from Kubrick’s collaborators and unseen materials from his personal archives to shed light on this unique cinematic achievement.

Featured in the documentary are: Lisa and Louise Burns (The Grady Twins), Garrett Brown (inventor and operator of the Steadicam), Diane Johnson (co-screenwriter on The Shining), Katharina Kubrick (Stanley Kubrick’s daughter) and Jan Harlan (Kubrick’s producing partner and brother-in-law).

Where to catch it

Firstsite in Colchester at 8.45pm on Tuesday October 31

Cineworld Basildon at 8.00pm on Tuesday October 31

Visit www.firstsite.uk for tickets.