Finally, a feel-good movie

"I'm not gonna hurt you, I'm just gonna Bash your brains in." My absolute favorite line in the entire movie. The way Jack executes this line is so amazing.

I never noticed before Jack's last words were "Help.. Please.."

18:00 “why don’t you start by getting the f**k outta here?” ‘He could at least say please’. 😂

Say whatever you will about Wendy, but her ash control is impeccable.

Just a little trivia for anybody who doesn´t know: the hotel-manager in the purple trousers (who shows them around the hotel in the beginning of the movie) is actor Barry Nelson who was the first actor to ever play James Bond on screen. Yes.

Notice how when the little girls turn, they pivot as a single unit, rather than turning individually as normal people would.

Happy birthday Jack Nicholson! April 22

I've seen this movie many times since it came out and only just noticed. When Danny and Wendy were in their room the TV was on, and we could hear the theme song for the cartoon "Roadrunner". We heard the iconic song line "If he catches you, you're through." I'm surprised I hadn't noticed that before.

In a lot of ways the film is about the incapacity to escape the past, using psycholgicmcal horror and ghostly imagery as the vehicle on which that constantly tracking camera rides. It's definitely a watch many more than once movie. Next time you see it watch how the camera represents the malevolent incarnation of the Overlook Hotel. The first opening shot is the camera "overlooking" Jack driving to the interview and descending down on him, the first suggestion that there is an uncanny power taking possession of him quietly and secretly. That sort of film language Kubrick excelled at. And notice how the camera is chasing or following or pushing Danny toward something. Danny is the protagonist and the malevolence of the Overlook is after him and using his father to accomplish it, but we sense it through how the camera itself is a actual charscter within the walls of the Overlook. Great reaction, Amelia!

Surprisingly, the most uncomfortable and creepy scene is when Danny comes to sit on his father's lap. Bartok's music also makes it extremely unsettling and tense. Nothing is more chilling and scary, traumatizing and awful than the notion of your closest people abusing you, those who you are supposed to trust fully... Kubrick is an absolute genius and the greatest director out there, IMHO. This movie proves it once again. It's astounding how much is really going on in every scene and on so many levels.

20:17 "At least the TV still works". Are you talking about the TV that isn't even plugged in? This movie has all kinds of creepy.

When some friends of mine had a young son, the husband and I told the wife that we were going to teach their son the Tony voice. She said, “You . . . will . . . not.”

It's a Stanley Kubrick film and people have been trying to figure it out for over 40 years!

Kids don't even get snow days around here. They have to do distance learning I've heard. Jack was a teacher also.

The look of relief on your face when the credits started rolling...Lol

For any younger viewers who don't know, the "here's Johnny" was the famous intro to every episode of Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show (1962-1992) at the time that this film was released (1980). LOL!

There's isolation and isolation without internet nowadays

My favorite movie of all time! I saw it for the first time as a teenager in the mid 80's and I was totally mesmerized by the whole atmosphere, and especially Nicholson's performance. This is the first video of yours I've ever seen, and I really enjoyed watching you react! Your facial expressions are really interesting. Guess I need to subscribe now! 😉

I never realized the 237 connection with Poltergeist!!! Holy cow you learned me today! SUBSCRIBED!

Enjoying this reaction Amelia... This is Stanley Kubrick iconic version & his own interpretation of the novel written by Stephen King....however King personally greatly disliked this movie because it was such a departure & many things were changed from his novel. King himself did have it remade as a 3 part TV miniseries in 1997 (which was a lot closer to the novel than the Kubrick's film). I also recommend checking out the 2019 sequel movie 'Doctor Sleep: The Director's Cut' (the best version of that film in my opinion & closer to that novel), is worth reacting to. It was able to walk that fine line of respecting the iconic Stanley Kubrick film and remaing true to Stephen King's sequel novel....And King loved that movie & Mike Flanagan's direction (and one of my personal favorites as well 😁).

In 1998/99, I was in college, living in an apartment with a roommate. One evening my roommate was out, I was feeling bored, so went to the local video rental place and picked up The Shining, which I had never gotten around to seeing, yet. Popped it in my tiny little TV/VHS combo with the 14" screen, prepared some microwave popcorn: and watched, for the first time, in a tiny apartment, in the middle of Chicago, alone, by myself, at night, in the dark: "The Shining." What. a fantastic. idea. I've watched it several times since, and find new things, details, nuances of performance, easter eggs, foreshadowing, call-backs, etc. Kubrick could be a helluva not nice guy, on set; apparently he caused poor Shelly Duvall (Wendy) to have a nervous breakdown. But ya gotta admit, that his techniques got results! (One can debate whether the ends justify the means in one case or another. Did Shelly really have to go through all that? I don't know.) But once she grabs onto that knife to defend herself, the look of absolute wide-eyed terror as she finds some new horror around every corner: wow. Nobody before or since looks quite like Shelly Duvall; her frail, thin frame, those enormous, expressive eyes. And set that against the pointy grin, pointy eyebrows, and pointy hairline (and pointy axe!) of Jack Nicholson's completely unhinged Jack Torrence? Wow. And young Danny Lloyd (Danny) may not have known *exactly* what was going on, on other parts of the set on other shooting days, or what he was really reacting to (that would be filled in later by edited cutaways) but when he was in front of the camera, he performed his little heart out, and was the heart and soul of the film! I feel really bad for Scatman Crothers (Dick Hallorann); did he really need to die? But he turned in a great performance, with warmth and charm and showed real care for Danny. The slow build of suspense, the impending knowledge that SOMETHING is going to happen and it is going to be HORRIBLE, but we don't know what or when or how, but we know it is coming: Kubrick definitely put in a Hitchcockian amount of suspense and dread. We the audience feel- we experience- the slow descent into madness that "cabin fever" isolation, combined with supernatural malevolent forces, can inflict. The very beginning of the film is almost pleasant, with only a hint or unease. Soon the suspense begins to build, and build: honestly the first two thirds of the film are the tensest part, and almost nothing really *happens* yet! Once the horrors really start to fall like dominoes, it's almost (almost) a relief! But even now- even in this edited reaction video: those moments of Hallorann getting it, and the guy in the hallway with blood dripping down his face, and the dog-man costume, and Wendy's looks of terror right into camera- right into our own eyes: shivers. I can still feel the blood leave my face with every scene. It still packs a punch, even after all these times, even in a heavy edit with sidebar commentary! A classic horror film, whose reputation is WELL deserved.

The scene with the little girls standing at the end of the hall appears in my dreams/nightmares every once in a while since i saw this as a kid at the theater.

Now they Finally can Rest In Peace

I think having dreams of being chased is something a lot of people experience. I know I do. Mine are in the zombie apocalypse, usually. I flee from zombies and everytime I think I might have found a hideout, the zombies burst through and I have to run all over.

THE SHINING is the only horror novel I've ever read that has a jumpscare on the page.

This film is one of my favourites and yours is one of my favourite reactions I've seen to this. It's brilliantly terrifying and there's something so haunting about many of the scenes. Cinematography wise, it's stunning the way some shots just sit there for a fraction too long or allow you to interpret them in your own way

I just came on to find something to watch while it storms outside, and this was the perfect video!

The letter 'C' does a 'grab' on the Beetle several times in the title sequence. Colour is highly important in this film given its setting. The titles' cyan shows up later and even at the end ... And for you Creedence fans, King credits John Fogerty in the book, so Fogerty 'sampled' a line from the film at 7:53.

Nice reaction, He has always been the care taker.

If you love prunes (and who wouldn’t), you have to go to the town of Agen, in southwest France. The prunes are superb! The whole region is marvelous to explore. The best wines, foies gras, game meat and mushrooms…

I wish there was a hotel themed on horror movies. Room 237 would be themed on The Shining, with REDRUM scribbled on the walls, an axe embedded in the door, Jack's typewritten pages framed as art, etc. However, I think there would need to be a licensing arrangement, so the room rates at such a hotel would probably be exorbitant.

"God, I'd give anything for a drink. I'd give my god-damned soul for just a glass of beer." "Hi, Lloyd. Little slow tonight isn't it?" And isn't Lloyd wearing a lovely velvet red jacket? He sure is.

Shout out to my high altitude people. Salt Lake City, Utah here...

The overlook exterior shot was filmed at the Timberline lodge at the base of Mount Hood in Oregon.

I recommend Jack Nicholson again in A Few Good Men & Anger Management.

First time here. Kind of off-topic, but I love your graphics, decor and fonts ! Good job ! Now, on to the reaction :)

Fun fact: Stephen King actually got his inspiration for his novel from his stay at the Stanley Hotel.. he had a nightmare and experienced things there.

Hmm. So heartwarming. A great family vacation. Thanks! 😁👻

Thank you for the fun reaction!

Jack Torrance in the photo at the end refers to Grady telling him that he has always been the caretaker.

The Shining and The Thing are the two greatest horror movies of all time.

Good reaction Amelia. This movie does ratchet up the creep factor. And yes, I watch this every Halloween season. There are definitely Stephen King books that got more faithful adaptations. I would recommend Misery, Pet Semetary, Cartie, and The Stand.

The *HEEERE'S JOHNNY" line is from the Johnny Carson show. Ed McMahon would introduce Johnny with the phrase "and now, HEEEEEEEEERE'S JOHNNY!". that's where Jack got it from. And by the way, Jack is doing the infamous Kubrick stare in your thumbnail.

The big shot of the lodge and mountain top is Mt Hood and Timberline Lodge in Oregon

avocado bathrooms ...big in the 70s ; )

Scott Ian of Anthrax just had a guitar made for him by the Jackson Custom Shop and it's finish is that rug pattern from that hotel. Every time I see it now, all I can think of is that guitar.

Covering your mouth when you’re scared. It’s the cutest thing.

First time watching your channel, i enjoyed your reaction to it dude. Not sure if you watched other Kubrick movies but pretty much everything after Lolita is a unique masterpiece. All his movies have different layers that can't be explained in just "one theory" like people want to do. Nobody has been able to make movies like this. Kubrick is living in the 5th dimension while we are here stuck in our boring 3rd. Hope you review his other movies!

Never met anyone else who's like me, but I enjoy nightmares, especially ones based around xenomorphs.

The hotel is the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. I’ve been to the hotel for a tour, and it’s really eerie. I refuse to stay at the hotel because I was constantly on edge the whole time I toured. Random spots would just get cold then return to normal temperature. The one spot that I remember being the coldest, was room 217. The room Stephen King stayed in and inspired the Shining book. Very very creepy hotel.

Great reaction Amelia like always, love this movie. And some fun-facts about this Kubrick master piece of cinema that is a addaptation of Stephen King’s novel, Stephen King was "disappointed" in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining. In 1983, King told Playboy, “I’d admired Kubrick for a long time and had great expectations for the project, but I was deeply disappointed in the end result. Parts of the film are chilling, charged with a relentlessly claustrophobic terror, but others fell flat.” In the book, the spooky events are set in Room 217, not Room 237. Oregon's Timberline Lodge, which was used as the hotel’s exterior for some shots, is to blame for this swap. The Lodge’s management asked for the room number to be changed so that guests wouldn’t avoid Room 217. There is no Room 237 in the hotel, so that number was chosen. The website of the Timberline Lodge notes, “Curiously and somewhat ironically, room #217 is requested more often than any other room at Timberline.” Danny Lloyd (the child) didn't know he was making a horror movie while shooting The Shining, and to protect Lloyd, who was 5 years old when he made the film, Kubrick told him that they were filming a drama. He didn’t even see the actual film until he was 16. “I just personally don’t find it scary because I saw it behind the scenes," Lloyd later said. "I know it might be kind of ironic, but I like funny films and documentaries.” Jack Nicholson improvised The Shining’s "Heeere's Johnny" line. Nicholson is responsible for the only line from The Shining to make it onto AFI’s Top 100 Movie Quotes. While filming the scene in which Jack breaks down a bathroom door with an ax, Nicholson shouted out the famous Ed McMahon line from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The catchphrase worked and stayed in the film. Keep up the good work.

I skied Colorado resorts (most hit around 11,500 feet) all day, every day for a week and felt great. But I also tried to backpack to the top of San Gorgonio in California (11,503 feet) and got violently ill.

I HIGHLY recommend reading the book. Kubrik doesn't follow it with authenticity. Stephen King has made public mentions that this is his least liked movies of any of his books. Its still a great movie and a great book. Then read Doctor Sleep to find out what has happened to Danny into his adulthood. A great follow up.

Ok, now you have to do the part 2 to this movie, Dr Sleep!!!

My nightmare used to be me as a part of a military squad, like in Aliens. In really normal locations, like shopping malls. My companions were dying one by one. Mostly silently, I could just heard we were fewer and fewer, until I was alone. And then I felt them creatures getting closer at me. And my ammo was all gone. And there was a silence. And I knew they were coming to get me. That was the scariest part. It used to wake me up almost screaming.

7:25 I went skiing this past January at Keystone Colorado and I got altitude sickness also. 24 hours of throwing up bile since nothing was in my stomach. Not fun

The hotel is real, is called The Stanley hotel, it’s in Colorado.

Trying not to spoil anything, but in another movie that's an adaptation of a Stephen King novella. There is another "room" 237

Finally, a romantic comedy.

Oh no! Hahaha why’d they give this sweet young woman a terrifying movie

Greatest horror movie ever made.

You really should see this video titled The Wendy Theory. Very enlightening!

It seemed like Kubrick used some of Sergio Leone's style of long, slow, building shots, and lots of straight-on face shots.

""Loosely" based on the Stephen King book "The Shining'. 😉 Great movie nonetheless!

Hi Amelia!😊 Unfortunately they have changed the recipe for twinkies over years, so you might have liked the original recipe. Yep, altitude sickness is a real thing. I lived in Colorado for 8 years and it did take some time to acclimate to living at a higher altitude. They have an Olympic training center in Colorado as it gives them an advantage training at that altitude. The Timberline Lodge in Oregon was used for the exterior shots. You can still book rooms there, but don't expect what you saw in the movie. The interior scenes are sound stages in England. Great reactions to this horror classic, Amelia!!!!🎬👏👏👏👏

I climbed Mt. Fuji, and they had stations that provided cans of oxygen.

I managed a restaurant and didn’t get done closing until 3-4am, I left a classical station on blast while I finished up. A few minutes afterI turned the lights out the opening theme of this damn movie played full blast and I almost crapped my pants

You mention that it wasn't too far back that Doctors would smoke. I work at a hospital and as far as I know,none of the Doctors smoke.But quite a few of the Nurses and CNAs definitly smoke. But here's the even crazier part: quite a few of the Respiratory Therapists take a lot of smoke breaks during their shift(s) and they are they know better than most people what tobacco and nicotine can do to a person.

A Masterpiece of a movie!

I'd never heard of that 237 connection between this and Poltergeist. In fact, I had never noticed the exact time the TV turned off in the latter movie, but it sounds likely if only because it seems odd a TV channel would end its broadcast day at such an odd time (instead of 2:30 or 3:00) unless Spielberg was doing it for a reason like you said. But it also reminds me of the Amityville Horror; the dad would always wake up at a very odd time every night, that just happened to coincide with the time the previous owner of the house murdered his family. I don't remember what the time was, but I don't think it was 2:37; I think it was after 3 AM. Maybe 3:15.

Great reaccion!! Than you for this beatiful

I like all the imagery of destroyed native heritage. The wall paintings. The food cans. In that sense, the film reminds me of Poltergeist and that idea that it's messed-with burial grounds that are causing the supernatural issues.

Definitely less about horror and more about madness. Some have interpreted the desolate hotel as being the inside of Jack’s mind. King apparently hated the film, but I forgot why. Never read the book, but Halloran apparently does more to help Wendy and Danny before dying. If you watch several Kubrick films, it’s clear he’s a “vision” director. He’s like Hitchcock and Burton. They have this vision for what they want and are obsessed with getting it on the screen, and I thought this was chillingly effective.

If you haven’t seen these movies check them out: Halloween(1978), Misery(1990), and Friday The 13th(1980).

I believe steadicam was first used if not invented for the shots in this movie where the camera makes smooth but complex following shots.

The bartender was also in the movie " BLADERUNNER " with Harrison Ford

@ 21:31 you missed the ball that led him into 237 😱

A complex classic film, obviously. Oh, I like twinkies. ;-) Although I don't often subscribe to his themes, I do recognize Kubrick as a great filmmaker, and "The Shining" (TS) is certainly a masterpiece of cinema. I like it very much even though I'm not a fan of Stephen King or his books. This must be due solely to Kubrick. Well, let's also give credit to the actors and the production crew, too. As great as Nicholson and Duvall were in the film, that little boy, Danny Lloyd, really made the movie for me. I think he was five when he started filming TS. For a child that age, he was just outstanding. He himself came up with the finger puppet for Tony, his alter ego. Kudos, also, to Philip Stone and Joe Turkel for being quietly sinister and menacing. I don't want to forget good-guy Scatman Crothers, either. Well-done Scatman. Then there's the Overlook. Not only is it alive, but it is the personification of evil. TS has all the Kubrick touches. All those long hallway and hedge maze shots are one-point-perspective. That's a Kubrick trademark. Also, don't some of those nighttime hedge maze shots remind you of HAL's "eye" in 2001 a bit? They do me. Another characteristic of Kubrick is his focus on intense person-to-person interactions. Yeah, TS has just a little bit of that. By the way, isn't it weird HAL in 2001 acts like a person, and the people act like computers/robots? Those long tracking-shots as people move about the hotel are another Kubrick trait. The musical score as an integral part of the narrative of TS is also textbook Kubrick. Kubrick was a perfectionist, and that is reflected in his films. For example, background is as significant as foreground. Why does Jack's typewriter change color? Is it because Jack has been transformed? Oh, "All work and no play" goes back to at least 1659. It didn't originate with TS although it certainly fits. Why do bits of the hotel, like the furniture, for example, appear, disappear or move about? Is it because the hotel is alive? The answer is yes by the way. It's definitely not due to continuity problems. Finally, Kubrick always forces the viewer to think about and dissect his films. That certainly happens in TS. As a result, we and Kubrick share in a common creative impulse when watching TS. The film becomes a living thing. Here are a few of the other things I've noticed about TS. The film is replete with mirrors. They're everywhere. Watch how they affect Jack. Are they how the hotel projects its power? A portal of sorts? Do they also absorb power? Are they its eyes as well? Likewise, there are mazes everywhere. There's the obvious hedge maze, but the hotel itself is a maze, and so is the hallway carpet. Early on, Wendy remarks on the need for breadcrumbs, a reference to Hansel and Gretel and the maze-like quality of the hotel. TS is a variation of Theseus and the Minotaur with Danny as Theseus, Tony as Ariadne etc. Wendy also says the hotel is like a ghostship. The hotel feeds off Danny and Jack's shining power and gets more powerful as time passes. The hotel wants Danny dead so it can absorb him and his power. Did you notice all the knives pointed at Danny's head on several occasions in the film? When Hallorann and Danny are talking in the kitchen bits of the conversation were telepathic. Numbers seem to come up a lot in the film. For example, Danny wears a shirt with 42 on the sleeve, the tv with no power cord is showing "Summer of 42," and room 237 is 2x3x7=42. I think Kubrick's wife said "Summer of 42" was one of his favourite movies along with "The Bank Dick." The latter is a great movie with W. C. Fields. I love it when Danny asks Jack if he feels bad. That can be taken two ways as in do you feel evil or do you feel unwell. And, of course, Jack repeats the girls saying forever and ever, meaning I want to join with the hotel in death. Jack does, of course, sell his soul for a drink. Is that why Lloyd the bartender won't take his money? Jack's already paid in full? The people and things Danny and Jack see are real, but only people with shining can see them at first. When Jack returns to the ballroom where the 1920s party is going on, a woman walks by him with a bloody handprint on her backside. This is about the time the advocaat is spilled on him. Jack also wipes some advocaat on Grady's back. In the bathroom scene, it's clear Grady's girls also had "the shine" and wanted to destroy the hotel, but they were killed instead and absorbed. Grady himself, probably like Jack, also had "the shine." In the conversation between Jack and Grady, Grady switches between Grady and the entity of the hotel. Jack may also switch with the "caretaker." When Jack and Wendy are being shown their apartment, Jack eyes the two departing young ladies. A sign of his lechery? Ditto the girlie magazine he's reading in the lobby early on. He definitely has a wandering eye. Even early on, he doesn't seem to hold Wendy in high regard. When Jack enters room 237, the carpet there is obviously suggestive of the sex act. Very phallic etc. Sex, in one way or other, features in many Kubrick films. Room 237 is the heart of the hotel. The nude woman represents the hotel seducing Jack. The heartbeat we hear is the hotel's and signals the hotel's malevolent activity and increasing power. We hear it overtly later in the film but weakly earlier when Danny is riding the trike on/off the carpet and when Jack is bouncing the ball. The high-pitched tone indicates "shining" is happening. So, Jack clearly shines, too. He's one of those who doesn't realize he has it. Jack several times in the film exhibits the Kubrick glare or stare, a shot of a man glowering up at the camera from beneath lowered brows, an indicator of danger or madness. You see it in "Full Metal Jacket." And I think HAL in 2001 also shows it. Doesn't HAL's red pupil change size? When Jack goes on his rant about his obligations to the hotel before Wendy conks him, he's not talking about Ullmann and co. He's talking about "the hotel," the thing that's alive. That's who he's made the contract and sold his soul to. Remember Lloyd the bartender's ominous hotel remarks. REDRUM is MURDER backwards, and it signifies anti-murder. It's a totem that protects against murder. That's why Danny writes it on the bathroom door. Jack can batter the door, but he won't get in. Danny is also warning Wendy and arming her as a result of his REDRUM recital. The photos are part of the hotel like the typewriter and furniture. When Jack dies, he's absorbed by the hotel and winds up in the 1920s photo. Towards the end, the hotel's evil spirit, the caretaker, may have abandoned Jack to die in the maze. He did fail in his task. That ball in the photo was the same one where the advocaat was spilled. So, he was there in 1921 and he wasn't. Kubrick deleted a final scene from TS. Wendy was in hospital and Ullman was visiting. He told her all was normal (except for Hallorann, I suppose) at the hotel. No Jack. At least, I think that's what I read once. Might be wrong about that. I've watched several reactions to TS, and I'm amazed at some of the observations. Got some beefs. A lot of people don't make a connection between Danny's first vision of the blood elevator, which signifies all the death at the hotel, and his passing out. They disassociate these two events when clearly they go together as the image of Danny's horrified face shows. From the get-go, it's clear Danny can see past events and future events. He knows Jack got the job and is going to call Wendy. He knows he doesn't want them to go to the hotel. He knows the hotel signifies danger. Why don't people notice that Danny's shirt and jumper are torn when he come to the Colorado Lounge after being strangled? Danny's clearly in shock, too. When Danny is foaming at the mouth and Hallorann is having his mini-fit, Danny is clearly communicating with Hallorann there is danger, come and help. How can Wendy be so sound asleep before Danny wakes her? Come on, the poor woman has been on edge for weeks. She hasn't been sleeping well. Now that she's locked crazy Jack up, she literally passes out, thinking they're safe. After Danny slides down from the bathroom window, why are people surprised he comes back into the hotel? It's freakin' cold outside. Do you live at the equator or something? After Jack kills Hallorann and Danny screams, why are people surprised when Danny bolts his hiding place? It's not a hiding place anymore, Jack knows where he is. Anyway, the hotel will lead him to Danny. Danny runs outside because he's actually luring Jack into the maze to meet his fate. Danny is the hero of TS, he's Theseus, who killed the monster in the maze.

What I absolutely love about this movie are all the intricate and often overlooked (no pun intended) details. You have the impossible liminal spaces, doors that lead to nowhere, the impossible window in Ullman's office, the various symbology (Dopey, native americans, moon landing), disappearing chair. If you know Kubrick, you know how meticulous he was. Hardly anything seen on screen is a mistake. I appreciate King has his opinions and doesn't like the film but I love the movie, even if it takes liberties with the source material.

Every time the blood cones out, I can't help but remember The Simpsons: "That's odd, the blood usually gets off on the second floor." ;)

@2:42 if someone searches for that video, please do not turn your volume all the way up

I'm always surprised that reactors forget that at the beginning the caretaker who went berserk was called Charles Grady, and the man who spills on the dad is named Delbert Grady.

The outside shots of the hotel is in Oregon

While there are several themes throughout the movie (alcoholism, child abuse, the past controlling the future, just plain going stir crazy), the overall interpretation that I subscribe to (lately, anyway) is this: Part of what we see are actual events, and part of what we see is the story that Jack is writing, based on actual events. (By that I mean the story that Jack is actually writing, not the "All work and no play..." madness.) Jack is a struggling writer and a recovering alcoholic with an anger management problem. In the beginning, while he's on the lookout for an idea for a new writing project, Mr. Ullman tells Jack the tragic story about a previous caretaker, Charles Grady. Jack's response is "Well... that's quite a story." Later, when Jack is throwing a tennis ball around while his typewriter sits idly by, he strolls over to the tabletop model of the hedge maze. Looking down at it, he smiles as if he's coming up with an idea. We then see a brief scene of Wendy and Danny, wandering through the maze, that ends with the biggest jump scare of the movie: TUESDAY. (Jack has begun to write.) From this point forward, reality and fiction start to intermix. The real-life Charles Grady, who had two daughters, aged 8 and 10, in the winter of 1970, becomes Delbert Grady, with twin daughters, in the year 1921. Jack's inpulses to abuse his wife and son turn into a cartoonish murderous rage. In the real world, Jack abused Danny in room 237 (bruising his neck and ripping his sweater). But Danny, not wanting to out Dad, told Mom a tall tale about a crazy woman in the hotel. So, the scene in 237 with Jack and the young woman/old hag was Jack's re-imagining of Danny's story. Anyway, I think that's a fun way to think about it. But how much of the movie is a ghost story, a hallucination, a story within a story, or just a story about three people going stir crazy is up to you. 👉👱‍♀

This movie as you know is based on the novel by Stephen King. Stephen King claims to have had haunts when he stayed in the room 237 at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. He also had a drinking problem when he was a younger author and I know a lot of his stories do have a reflective aspect of his personal life. Not sure what deeper meaning it could also have. I'm not sure if he had a very strong connection with his father growing up so that could be part of it as well.

9:19 You coulda fooled me.

1:45 That's what she said.

Possibly before you read "The Shining," you might want to watch the sequel "Doctor Sleep." There are differences between the movie and book versions of "The Shining."

I have always hated vanilla cake. My mom would always get me chocolate for my birthday

I live in Colorado and when I went to the highest peak and my ears popped and I got a migraine cause the air was too thin.

Great reaction.

I hope you read the book, it's SO GOOD. This movie adaptation is nothing like the book - but the movie is a piece of art on its own. Also, def recommend the sequel "Doctor Sleep" both book and movie are fantastic! Cheers!

Definitely check out the sequel: Dr. Sleep. Both movies have a scene I actively repress :p

1. Joe Turkel/Lloyd plays Tyrell in the original "Bladerunner" 2. "Here's Johnny" was adlib by Nickelson. 3. It took over 65 takes for Jack to chop through the doors. He used his voluntary firefighting skills to get through all the takes. They had to keep building doors. 4. The reason King didn't like this adaptation of the movie is because he didn't like the changes Kubrick made. This thing was remade just for King and although the remake was more in line with the book IMVHO it wasn't as good at this one. 5. Two of the changes he didn't like were Jack's decent into madness was too rapid, and Wendy wasn't such a patsy in the book. 6. Shelley Duval said making this film was the worst thing she ever experienced in her life. She said she would never do it again. 7. Jack Nicholson and Scatman worked together in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest". 8. The real villain here is the hotel itself. 9. Watch Dr. Sleep. Danny is an adult and many of the loose ends will be cleared up. TUESDAY😏

Have you seen doctor sleep ? it's about as good a sequel as u could have done for this movie I really liked it 🤷

If you want to keep a child out of room 237 tell him there's homework in there!

Her complacency to the horrible way Jack speaks to Wendy makes me feel like she has experienced this sort of thing in her life. Hope I am wrong.

I hope you watch the sequel next. (Doctor Sleep) It's EXCELLENT I'm just now starting your reaction. You may mention it at the end You're adorable, btw. You will also more easily understand the premise of the original classic.

Did I just notice something I’ve missed for 44 years? When Dick Hallorann approaches Ullman and the Torrence’s in the Gold Ballroom, is it because he detected Danny’s ability to shine? How else would Hallorann know that’s where to find them?