The Shining was written by Stephen King (novel) and Stanley Kubrick, directed by Stanley Kubrick and stars Jack Nicholson, Shelly Duvall and Danny Lloyd.
A novelist Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) gets a job as a caretaker at Overlook Hotel and he brings his wife Wendy (Shelly Duvall) and his son Danny (Danny Lloyd) to keep him company throughput the long isloated nights. After a snow storm blocks in the family, Jacks sons Danny discovers that the hotel is haunted and along with his writers block Jack begins has a complete mental breakdown and the situation takes a sinister turn for the worst.
From the opening of this film we can already see one of the very important convention within the Thriller genre: isolation. The first shot we see is of a lake surrounded by mountains, there is then either a dissolve or an overlap showing a car driving down a curving mountian road surrounded by a forest. We then see that same car driving on a hillside where in the distance we can again see mountains, we continue to see the car making it way along roads at the edges of cliffs, the camera continues to move and follow the car as the characters continue to where they are going. After a few more shots of the car traveling alongside snowed covered mountains and forests we see the hotel that they are heading to and by using this opening sequence the film has used a Thriller convention of isolation.
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