Being a big fan of horror films myself, I've never ever understood the appeal of "The Shining." I agree, it's incredibly boring and everything is so obvious. To me, that feeling you hate when you watch horror movies -- being tense and uncomfortable and nervous and all the rest -- is what I look for, and if a horror film is done right, that's the feeling it should give viewers (at least in that type of horror film of which "The Shining hopes to be a part of). "The Shining" never does that. When I've watched it I feel like Stanley Kubrick is there going, "Ooh, look -- isn't this scary? ARen't you scared? Oh look, this is really, really creepy -- scary, isn't it?" and that's not scary. I think he tried to make a horror movie without knowing what a horror movie is.