Movie Research

The Shining
The movie is about a novelist known as Jack Torrance. He applies for a job interview as a winter caretaker at an old but beautiful hotel called Overlook Hotel. During his interview Jack is told by the Manager that the previous caretaker was driven insane and killed all of his family. Despite this warning, Jack brings his wife (Wendy) and son (Danny) along to stay over winter. As the movie goes on, it becomes apparent that Danny has a mysterious power described as “the Shining”. The power gives him visions about the past and future. The hotel cook warns him about room 237 supposedly being extremely sinister and scary. The visions Danny gets gradually get more and more strange and eventually sinister. In his visions he views deaths of past employees of the hotel dying. Meanwhile, Jack is being driven to insanity just like the previous caretaker. Wendy realises that Jack might try and kill them, similarly to the story of the previous caretaker. The only thing that can save Danny and Wendy from their deranged sibling is “the Shining”.



Dawn of the Dead
The sequel to “Night of the Living Dead”, the film is set a few weeks after the prequel, it is a zombie epic. In the city of Philadelphia, USA, two TV station workers (Steven and Francine) make the decision to run because of the worsening situation with the zombie attacks. They meet with two policemen (Roger and Peter). Then the four steal the TV stations helicopter and fly west. After a while they decide to take vacancy in a mega-mall in Monroeville. On arrival they clear the undead and board up all the windows and doors. Soon afterward, they have even heavier problems to worry about, as a large gang of bikers discovers the mall and invades it, ruining the survivors' best-laid plans and forcing them to fight off both lethal bandits and flesh-eating zombies.



Joshua
In Manhattan, the successful stockbroker Brad Cairn and his beautiful wife Abby are celebrating their newborn daughter Lily in their new fancy apartment with Brad's mother Hazel and Abby's brother, the artist Ned Davidoff. Their extremely intelligent and talented nine year-old son Joshua is feeling neglected and jealous of Lily, trying to attract more attention from his parents and relatives. Joshua becomes gradual jealously, that his parents give the baby more attention than him. Therefore he begins to terrorize his family. In the end he drives his father insane and at the end of the movie Brad loses it and beats his child senseless in front of everyone at a local park.