Why 'The Shining' Remains so Frightening Almost 40 Years Later
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Horror is a constantly maturing genre, with the definition of what is and is not scary changing as time goes on. Back in the 1940’s, there were kitschy, special-effects laden, monster-flicks that centered on a romance of some sort - like I Walked with a Zombie or The Wolf Man. They didn’t even require violence or
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