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By Brian Marder, Hollywood.com Staff | Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1

The Shining – 8/7c on A&E

Follow up The Exorcist from the previous night with The Shining -- then see if you can stay sane! Stephen King was reportedly disgusted with Stanley Kubrick’s big-screen adaptation of his bestselling horror novel, but audiences didn’t seem to mind. Sure, Shelley Duvall gets on everyone’s nerves in the movie, but a much younger Jack Nicholson makes you marvel at how he can be so damn menacing and maniacal here and then such a charmer in his rom-coms of today -- although his mean streak did reappear recently in The Departed.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind – 8/7c on AMC

Ah, how quick we are to forget (with the help of summer fluff like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal) that Steven Spielberg is a sci-fi geek at heart, and that he used to occasionally dabble in horror. Take a look back at Close Encounters, released two years after Jaws and four prior to Raiders of the Lost Ark, for further insight into the master’s roots.

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