On This Day: May 23, 1980 — The Shining Premieres
On May 23, 1980, Warner Bros. dropped The Shining into U.S. theaters and quietly rewired horror cinema for the next four decades. Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining 1980 release wasn’t an obvious blockbuster on opening weekend — critics shrugged, Stephen King fumed, and the Razzies even nominated it for Worst Director. Forty-five years later, it’s preserved…