Stephen King Is Wrong About Kubrick’s Take On The Shining

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While Stephen King may have hated Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining, the author was wrong to claim that the movie did not do the source novel justice. In the years since Stanley Kubrick adapted Stephen King’s novel The Shining, the iconic horror author has softened his views of movies and television shows that bring his work to life onscreen. Perhaps because his work has been adapted so many times across so many mediums, King’s comments on projects like Welcome To Derry’s Pennywise backstory are now typically limited to enthusiasm, interest, or mild criticism.

However, earlier in his career, King was not as keen to pull his punches. The author was infamously vocal about his hatred of Kubrick’s The Shining adaptation after the movie was released to mixed reviews, claiming that the blackly comedic horror profoundly missed the point of his acclaimed novel. As Kubrick’s enigmatic interpretation of The Shining became more popular with critics and horror fans alike over the coming decades and became seen as a formative text in the genre, King softened his criticism a little by admitting that the movie had a certain aesthetic appeal, but he remained adamant that Kubrick threw away the story of his novel and made a movie that was effectively unrelated to the book.

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While King’s own miniseries adaptation of The Shiningwas less successful than its cinematic counterpart, this didn’t change the author’s opinion of the Kubrick movie and time did not do a lot to soften King’s take on 1980’s version of The Shining. In an infamously harsh comment to The Paris Review, King claimed that he doubted whether Kubrick ever even read The Shining. In this regard, King