Hello, Danny. Come and play with us.

Forever and ever and ever...

I love watching The Shining around Halloween. It's so deliciously creepy.

Some of the creepiest moments come from these two. They've got to be the scariest children in movie history (much scarier than the Children of the Corn and waaaay freakier than Linda Blair in The Exorcist). I double-dog dare you to find someone scarier.

YIKES!!

Those girls are so unnerving that you're not really surprised (or upset) to see what happens next.

EEEK!

But my favorite shot is the next one. I love it for the sheer HolyShitWhatTheHellWasThat? factor.

HolyShitWhatTheHellWasThat???

And what's so great about all of it is that none of this is really integral to the plot of the movie. It's just scary window dressing. Iloveitiloveitiloveit.

I know true Stephen King fans (and Stephen King himself) rail against this movie, saying it has nothing whatsoever to do with the book. I've read the book, and that's true. But I'll argue that both are scary masterpieces that stand on their own.

Wendy, give me the bat.

(And, yes, I'm dorky enough to have paused/taken pictures of my television during the movie.)