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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reveal" data-source="post: 2440661" data-attributes="member: 1236">90. Jack Torrence - The Shining<img src="http://www.infilm.com.au/features/villains/pic2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The snarling maniacal glare of Jack Nicholson eats up the screen in Kubrick’s horror opus masterfully adapted from Stephen King’s compulsively chilling novel about a haunted hotel and a family of terrorized caretakers. Recovering alcoholic Jack Torrence isn’t your average beer drinking happy hour regular: he’s more the psychopathic murderous type whose idea of a good night is chasing his family around the house with an axe while gleefully announcing his own arrival. Nicholson’s wily eyed, intensely infectious performance of a writer rapidly spiraling towards insanity is a crazily charismatic treat for generations of horror fans. “I’m not gonna hurt ya,” is Jack’s way of reassuring his victims: “I’m just gonna bash your brains in!”BTW, the famous line "Here's Johnny!" was ad-libbed by Nicholson.</blockquote>