Stephen King has never shied away from talking about how much he dislikes Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining , King’s novel about a writer possessed by malevolent forces at an isolated hotel in the Colorado mountains. Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation, King has argued, is “totally empty” and a “great big beautiful Cadillac with no motor inside,” a film much more interested in the conventional awfulness of a man terrorizing his wife and child than in the uncanny suspense of the book. “Kubrick