That movie is great. The music, ambiance and acting is creepy but the movie did not scared me. I did read the book before watching the movie but it was during the time I was not speaking English so one day I will read the original version. I was able a few years ago to find two CDs that have some music from that movie in them and that made me happy because I was looking for that music since watching the movie. I was excited when I heard here that a prequel will be done (when i heard it here it was said that Stephen King would write it then i saw on Yahoo a few days ago that maybe someone else would write it), I always wanted a prequel for The Shinning so I hope it's really made!