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5 Peth Na Sylwoch Chi Arnynt Yn "The Shining"

Gwefan sy'n trafod y darnau dychryn yng nghlasur arswyd Kubrick "The Shining" a pha fanylion yn y ffilm sy'n ychwanegu at y teimlad o anesmwythder.

Hefyd yn cynnwys llwyth o ddolenni ar waelod y dudalen i adnoddau a thrafodaethau eraill am y ffilm.

Dyma ddyfyniad ohono:

"When Stephen King saw the film version of Carrie, he couldn’t help but notice that the single most terrifying moment - the one that made all audiences jump - wasn’t even in his book. After Carrie’s death and the climactic destruction of the high school, director Brian DePalma added a little epilogue where one of Carrie’s chums visits her grave. Just as she bends down to place some roses, a hand comes shooting out of the gravel and grabs her arm. A second later she wakes up in bed, screaming. The epilogue was a nightmare. The end.

A cheap shot? Yep. Effective? You bet, and a perfect example of the Ultimate Scare Tactic in film: build an atmosphere of tension, release it, and just as the audience gets relaxed and is sure that nothing else is going to happen, hit them with the real punchline. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Omen, Alien, Deliverance, and Jaws are but a few of the films now available on video that exploit this technique, and they’re all worth studying. It works so well that Stephen King has incorporated the Ultimate Scare Tactic into his novel writing. It’s in The Shining, one of the most frightening books ever written, and a perfect property for film, that he first succeeded in brilliantly combining cinematic and novelistic scare tactics. Any director could have shot it exactly as written and come up with a terrifying film of phantasmagorical proportions."