But in "The Shining," Duvall ... as she struggles to fend him off with a baseball bat. It's in this scene that Duvall's acting takes off, lifting the film to a register of cataclysmic fear.
Perhaps, out of all the twisted endings in cinematic history, The Shining shines the brightest, twisting upon us. That photograph at the end doesn't make sense.
Duvall is best-known for her role as Wendy Torrance in "The Shining" opposite ... who shot a scene where she walks backward up a flight of stairs while swinging a bat at a taunting Nicholson ...