15-year-old Morgan Spence aspires to be a filmmaker, and just spent three weeks recreating scenes from celebrated Hollywood classics using LEGO minifigures and bricks.

Made in collaboration with LEGO masterbuilder Warren Elsmore, the teenage filmmaker used the original soundtrack and voice-over from the movies he remade - making this the jolliest version of The Shining you've ever seen. 

Spence first discovered his love of stop-motion animation back when he was completing a school project in 2011, and his work was recently featured as the music video for DJ Paul Oakenfold.

As this video goes to show, the teen has an eye for detail, and the patience to pull it off: