Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ Comes to IMAX Theaters for the First Time This December! [Trailer]

Stephen King adaptations have been all over screens both big and small this year, with The Long Walk, The Life of Chuck, and “IT: Welcome to Derry” being joined by Edgar Wright’s The Running Man in November. But it’s a classic King adaptation from the past that’s making headlines today, as Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is coming to IMAX theaters!

For the first time ever, Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, The Shining, can be experienced in IMAX on December 12, 2025, showcasing the iconic horror classic like never before.

Academy Award® winner Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall star in director Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s disturbing blockbuster horror novel.

Writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), a former alcoholic, accepts a job as the winter caretaker for a hotel high in the Rocky Mountains, isolating him, his wife (Shelley Duvall) and their psychic young son until spring. But when the first blizzard blocks the only road out, the hotel’s stored energy from evil past deeds begins to drive Jack insane… and there may be no escape for his family in this haunting story of madness, memory and violence.

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Stephen King is famously not a fan of Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of his horror novel, citing a handful of issues that have always bothered him about the classic movie. He was so bothered by it, in fact, that King wrote his own mini-series adaptation of The Shining back in the 1990s.

Despite King’s own issues with the film, it’s of course one of the most iconic adaptations of his work, with most horror fans agreeing that it doesn’t get much better in the King arena than Kubrick’s artful take on the material. You’ve seen it a dozen times… but never quite like this…