Movies like The Shining

Why it's similar — Operates in the same seasonal-isolation register as The Shining — a family trapped in a snowed-in building with a parent whose interior weather is the actual antagonist. The film borrows Kubrick's commitment to the slow build, the corridor camera, and the willingness to let domestic violence be the actual horror rather than the supernatural disguise it sometimes wears in the genre.

Why it's similar — Returns to the snowed-in, isolated-childhood register that The Shining established as a default for American horror — a sequel that leans into the same vocabulary of psychic gift, dead messengers, and a building that remembers more than its occupants. The atmospheric debt to Kubrick's corridor work is unusually direct for a contemporary studio horror film.

Why it's similar — Builds its haunting around a documented historical case in much the way Kubrick anchored the Overlook in colonial fact. The film's strongest sequences are the ones in which the camera moves slowly through a domestic space that has begun to refuse the family living in it — the same architectural-memory logic that drives the third act of The Shining.

Why it's similar — Centres a child with an emergent psychic gift trying to outlast an adult who is being claimed by something larger than himself, which is the load-bearing relationship in The Shining's third act. The tone — quiet, persistent, willing to let the supernatural arrive as a phone ringing rather than an effect — sits adjacent to Kubrick's preference for stillness over jump.

Why it's similar — Another Stephen King adaptation that, like The Shining, works at a pace many studio horror films would consider too slow — a chamber piece in which the architecture of a single isolated location becomes the antagonist. The film's commitment to the interior monologue of a woman alone with a worsening situation rhymes with Wendy's third-act work in the Overlook.