I saw that movie when i was about 9 and id wasnt scary the least bit. When the mom started seeing ghosts she saw a guy in na dog costume drinking water out of a bowl in a room at the end of a hallway. How is that scary? I laughed my head of!
What the heck are you talking about? Maybe its that crap TV version that I never could make it through, but the Kubrick version of The Shining is frickin\' awesome and it is not a dog bowl the guy in the dog custom is drinking out of - at least not in the Kubrick version.
Go now! Rent it! It has Jack Nicholson in it for christ sake! Not to mention Kubrick directed it.