20 The Shining (1980)
Actors who stripped down: Lia Beldam, Billie Gibson
Why they’re fully nude: The product of a married man’s fertile imagination. (Or is it?)
No one has ever accused Stanley Kubrick of being a prude. If it weren’t for his painterly eye, some of his movies might be considered downright pornographic (we’re looking at you, A Clockwork Orange). While he showed a bit more restraint with The Shining, the man just couldn’t help himself from throwing in one (well, two) fully naked women. And showing that female nakedness can be both arousing and scary…sometimes almost simultaneously.
When Jack Torrance’s (Jack Nicholson) young son claims that he was attacked by a woman in Room 237 of The Overlook Hotel, the abandoned resort the family is watching after in the off-season, Jack wants to see for himself. Instead what he encounters is a buxom young blonde—mid-bath—who seems ready to party.
But when the hottie becomes an old ghoul in an instant, so too does the canoodling that was revving up between them. Good thing Jack’s got a lifetime ahead of him in this hotel, because that’s just about how long it will take for him (and us) to erase the image of the older version of Jack’s fantasy gal from his mind.
