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The Shining

This is the mother of all horror adaptations. Written by Stephen King in 1977, The Shining became a movie in 1980. Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall starred in Stanley Kubrick's film, which to this day is regarded as one of the scariest films ever.

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