Or, Why I Can't Write Supernatural Games In the summer of 1980 I spent the night at the house of a friend. His dad took us all out to the movies. I love movies. It is perhaps unfortunate that the movie we saw turned out to be one of the scariest horror movies ever: The Shining, starring Jack Nicholson and directed by Stanley Kubrick. I was 13. It was the first horror movie I ever saw, and very nearly the last. It scared the ever-loving crap out of me, so badly that I sle