Jack Torrance, a former teacher and now a writer seeking inspiration, gets a job as a caretaker at the Panorama Mountain Hotel, which has been abandoned for the winter. When a snowstorm cuts the Torrance family out of the world, Jack's telepathic Danny, five-year-old son of Jack, discovers that the hotel is haunted and the ghosts slowly drive his father insane. The situation becomes more and more tense, until one day the man loses his temper .
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