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For a guy who is supposedly a writer on a film site I can't help but question the authors film knowledge. At one point he criticizes the film for not having enough jump scares, the cheapest parlor trick in horror filmmaking. The overwhelming sense of dread and all around eeriness is what really sets The Shining apart from the myriad of haunted house movies released in the 70s. It's the reason we are still talking about The Shining today while movies like The Amytiville House and Burnt Offerings fade into obscurity.