The Shining

FRIGHT FEST 2026

For this domestic nightmare, Stanley Kubrick took a Stephen King best seller and infused it with his own demons and obsessions, creating a tour de force of dreamlike dread and disturbing ambiguity. Sequestered for the winter at the snowbound Overlook Hotel, a frustrated writer (Jack Nicholson), his increasingly fearful wife (Shelley Duvall), and their psychic son (Danny Lloyd) are plunged into a vortex of madness and violence—a psychosis that seems to emanate from the haunted, labyrinthine corridors of the building itself. Channeling historical trauma and contemporary anxieties about failed masculinity into images of surreal, subliminal power, Kubrick constructs a maelstrom of psychological terror that stands as one of the most endlessly analyzed horror films ever made. (Criterion)

Tickets: $10 General Admission / $5 Members & UNL Students
A festival pass, good for discounted admission, will be available at The Ross box office.