With Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, and Douglas Rain as the voice of HAL.
With Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson. Struggling writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and their psychic son Danny (Danny Lloyd) spend the winter overseeing the deserted and isolated Overlook hotel, where the ghosts of the site's shocking and bloody past plague Jack's sanity. The Shining (1980) From writer Stephen King and director Stanley Kubrick comes a classic tale of madness and terror that has climbed the list of greatest horror films since it's initial release. The film depicts the discovery of a large black monolith at the dawn of man, an identical obelisk found on the moon, and two astronauts terrorized by their ship's computer, HAL 9000.