Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is head and shoulders beyond what King originally wrote, and definitely far beyond Steven's mini-series remake.
Kubrick adapted the story with new world vs. old world undertones, highlighting the importance that the hotel was erected over Native American burial grounds (a commentary on new world vs. old world; white man vs. red man, if you will), and the link, of The Shining, between the child (young white man; forerunner of new world) and the black hotel employee (old black man; helping the child bridge the gap between separated worlds with unity), whereas Nicholson's character represented old world, the evil of repression.
Jack kills the black man, but isn't able to kill the child before the bridge is erected between the white child and black man. Eventually, the old world falls and the new world lives on.
(No, I'm not over-analyzing.)
With that said, Kubrick tool a mundane horror book, transformed it into something with a higher meaning... and added tinges of legit horror.