âThe Shiningâ Scene, Stuff of Nightmares, Turns a Criminal Case Upside Down A prosecutor erred by likening a man charged with robbing a bank to Jack Nicholsonâs violent psychopath, New Jerseyâs highest court ruled. A New Jersey prosecutor used an image like this one, along with the phrase âHereâs Johnny,â in summing up her case against a robbery defendant. Credit...Warner Bros., via Photofest By Ed Shanahan Jan. 20, 2021 It may be the most terrifying scene in âThe Shining,â the 1980 horror classic starring Jack Nicholson as a violent psychopath bent on killing his family to satisfy the ghouls inhabiting a haunted mountain resort.