The eighth look at one of my favorite movie dads. (#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 and #7)

Jack Torrance in The Shining

The combination of Kubrick and Nicholson should be reason enough to understand why Torrance makes this list but beyond that he is one of the most terrifying fathers ever to grace a movie screen. After he takes his family to a large abandoned hotel so that he can write, Jack Torrance proceeds to go crazy and terrorize them all, including his his psychic son. The film is creepy, and if you have a good father he hopefully didn’t let you watch it as a kid. Mostly, I think this line from the film says it all:

**Jack Torrance: [as he chases his son with an ax] Danny, I’m coming!

takepart to learn a bit about writer’s block and click click click for a great fatherly scene from The Shining