Directed with assurance and filled with the cynicism, paranoia, visual flair and lurid titillation that characterised so much of his work, this is vintage Kubrick and classic cinema.

Kubrick's spellbinding 1980 horror epic is one of the true masterpieces to come out of the genre. And Nicholson's descent into unbridled insanity is simply unforgettable. The movie is not about ghosts but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them. This is the greatest horror film of all time, in my opinion.

Kubrick's harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric film about Vietnam, is going to puzzle, anger and fascinate audiences as much as any film he has made to date.

A riveting, thematically probing, richly atmospheric and just occasionally troublesome work, a deeply inquisitive consideration of the extent of trust and mutual knowledge possible between a man and a woman.

Kubrick keeps the elegant black-and-white film big and luxurious and barren and sustains the cold humor.