You gotta understand, Jack is Wendy’s HUSBAND. He’s not some random dude trying to kill her, they’ve been married for years. So it’s harder for her to accept that he’s gone crazy

Wendy wasn’t weak at all, she was having a nervous breakdown. A very realistic acting performance, Oscar worthy. Anyone would be that terrified, maybe more.

I think she's a little too hard on Wendy. It's easy to look at her from the outside and say, stop crying, hit him, run faster, but in the moment remember that this is a woman whose husband of 10-15 years, who she presumably loves, is trying to murder her and their son. She has to come to grips with the fact that he's gone insane. Wendy isn't an action hero, she's just a person trying to survive and save her son and she's successful in the end. I think Shelley Duvall was terrific in this role.

The Shining genuinely terrifies me. Shelley Duvall’s performance always makes me a little teary-eyed because of how much trauma her character endures. You can tell Jack isn’t entirely stable from the get-go and she appears to walk on eggshells in an attempt to keep the peace. It’s the case of an emotionally abused woman who then has to reckon with the fact that the abuse is now turning into something physical, causing her to have an emotional breakdown.

"I hate her right now" Well you're using horror movie thinking of what she should do. She's not dealing with a horror movie, from her perspective, she's dealing with her husband of many years. She's not a last girl facing Jason. She's not even thinking of ghosts or evil spirits of the hotel.

Shelly’s character is clearly a long term victim of verbal and emotional abuse. She had poor self esteem and fear of her husband (and fear of being alone) long before her husband lost it.

I had the pleasure of meeting Scatman Crothers when I worked at a golf course in So Cal when I was about 15. He brought out his ukulele and played a couple of songs. Very memorial moment in my life. He was such a kind man.

The wife was really pissed at Wendy! lol I mean, the woman is in a haunted lodge with her psychotic husband, disturbed son, and ghosts. I can totally understand her frustration and panic in the situation.

A freaking masterpiece. King himself didn't like Kubrick's take on his book, but this film is overwhelmingly terrifying. The loneliness, the isolation, the vast space... it's a lot to take.

The Mrs. hating on her character not withstanding, I thought Shelley Duvall was terrific in this film. Kubrick really did a number on her during production per his reputation. Dr.Sleep is a worthy sequel.

Shelley Duvall is the MVP of this film. None of it works without her reactions, none of it. She has the hardest job of seeming outwardly weak and utterly terrified while beating Jack every time he comes after her. The whole cast is great but she's always what I think of first when I think of TS.

The scene in the crimson bathroom is the most chilling horror sequence in movie history - and not a drop of blood shed. The English actor who played Delbert Grady, Philip Stone, was truly sinister.

The stuff that Grady spilled all over Jack is called Advocaat: Advocaat is a traditional Dutch alcoholic beverage made from eggs, sugar, and brandy.

No clue how it started but when I was a child me and my grandmother would watch this movie once every year. She hated horror movies, and I loved them. This is the only horror movie, other than Cabin in the Woods (which she dragged ME to), that she likes. I remember curling up in the bed with her and eating popcorn and a BLT. This was our sort of Christmas movie, since we'd watch it either in October or December. Good times.

Wendy may have seemed weak but she was really the one who was managing the hotel the entire time, she was even making sure to have contact with the outside world. All Jack was doing was writing his book and getting involved with a ghost house.

Shelly Duvall's performance was so GOOD in this!! It's an absolute travesty that she didn't get an Oscar for it. Just look at your reaction to her! She went through hell for it too.

Here's a fun little fact. The ending song, Midnight, the Stars and You was one of the songs my wife and I danced too at our wedding.

I get that Stephen King (one of my favorite writers of all time btw) doesn’t like it and I get that liberties were taken, but for me this is one of very few instances where I think the movie simplifies and improves on the book version. Idk, it could just be Jack’s energy that just carries this film, but I love it. The little actor that played Danny was phenomenal too, and I also really like the portrayal of Wendy, I think it’s somewhat realistic to how a more mousy but sweet hearted person might react in that situation.

Kubrick infamously 'brutally' directed the actress who played Wendy deliberately to the extent that she was on the verge of a breakdown, asking for hundreds of takes, so he could get an 'authentic' performance of her coming apart emotionaly. That wouldnt fly these days.

You have misguided and unfair expectations of Wendy. Her natural state is being passive and loyal to her husband. She's not going to all of a sudden turn into Wonder Woman.

21:07 I think by an outside party he means Dick trying to interfere at the hotel. Because the Overlook not only has ghosts in it but the hotel itself is a living thing as well trying to escape using Danny's shining and it wanted to get Jack to kill Danny so it could absorb it.

Kubrick's assistant typed all the "all work and no play" pages. She also typed them in different languages for different countries the movie was released in.

🤠 The character you liked so much, Dick, was played by Scatman Crothers, an extremely talented musician, singer, actor from the mid 20th century who also did a lot of voice-overs and TV appearances on various shows. 👍

Love this one. My brother ( rather adventurous ), decided to stay at the location hotel. Went to go to sleep, but it was so much in his head that he left. Went back the next morning to check out.

Wow - I've never seen such a cruel reaction to Wendy's character. That poor woman was put through hell to make this movie. That swinging bat scene was shot 127 times. Her exhaustion was REAL. And that I hear was just the tip of the iceberg.

I do have to say I’m disappointed in the reaction to Wendy. I honestly don’t get how you don’t appreciate the realism. You say Jack was “terrifying” but frustrated that the marginalized wife would find him terrifying.

"Advocaat or advocatenborrel is a traditional Dutch alcoholic beverage made from eggs, sugar, and brandy. The rich and creamy drink has a smooth, custard-like consistency. The typical alcohol content is generally between 14% and 20%"

So people hate Wendy in this film but I literally love her, I think her reaction suit her passive character quiet well.

So Kubrick made EVERYONE be rude, mean and ignore Shelly Duvall the whole time of filming. Just to help keep her a wreck through out the movie. She was also sick through out filming and was rumored to have cried for hours due to the mistreating. Thus helping her kok exhausted and a mess.

Definitely watch Dr. Sleep. Try to find the director's cut as it makes it a bit easier to follow in spots.

The exteriors of the Overlook Hotel were shot at the Timberline Lodge at the base of Mt. Hood in Oregon.. The interiors were both based on and shot at the Stanley Hotel in Colorado.. (The soundstage sets were all patterned after the interiors of the Stanley..) -- I don't know where you folks live, but a trip to either location is well worth it...

25:53 "This f*ing Ghost can open doors" - So these ghosts are as smart as raptors. And Mrs. Movies is wearing a "Jurassic Park" shirt ... coincidence, or is she psychic?

The Simpsons did a great spoof of this movie, "That's odd, usually the blood gets off at the second floor"

"So, we should just burn down the hotel now, then?" Funny you should say that because the hotel does burn down at the end of the original novel. Now you need to watch Doctor Sleep!

You have to acknowledge the one advantage you have over Wendy: for her, Jack was just a more or less reasonable husband with alcohol problems; you see Jack Nicholson and know immediately he's going to be crazy. The killing of Dick was just for the shock value, what a waste of a character (not happening in the novel). Talking the book: in the end, the hotel actually burns down. Advocaat is an egg-based liqueur (think of a cream-liqueur with egg yolks instead of cream). You can drink it as a shot, use it as a topping on ice cream, spice up your coffee, bake a sponge cake with it or mix a cocktail (like a "Snowball": a shot of Advocaat filled up with lemon soda).

My favorite one liner in the film is Here’s Johnny. As for your thoughts about Wendy a lot of people know about fight or flight… it’s common knowledge; but many don’t know there are actually four possible options when placed in a traumatic situation: Fight, Flight, Fawn, and Freeze. The first two are self explanatory, and again common knowledge. Fawn basically means that the traumatized person will try to befriend or appease their tormentor, please them in order to survive. Freeze is represented in an Oscar worthy(though the academy disagreed) performance here by Shelley DuVall… freeze basically shuts down any instincts you have of self preservation… you become powerless, and weak, and small… in the hopes that your attacker will have pity and grant mercy. Alternatively to put it another way, freeze is becoming completely numb and dissociated from what’s happening to you or around you. Mrs. movies seems FIRMLY in the Fight category, and that’s a perfectly valid trauma response… but Wendy’s is too, and Shelley went through absolute hell(which she never really recovered from) at Kubrick’s hands in order to “get the shot” and achieve his vision; by the end of filming she’d lost over 35 pounds, and was losing hair in chunks, and for years she said in interviews that she hated Stanley for what he’d done, even if it led to a masterful performance. I respect your reaction Mrs. Movies, and can understand that your own trauma responses differ from others, only disappointment is I wish people wouldn’t invalidate trauma responses that differ from their own because it’s so damaging. But as I said I still thoroughly enjoyed the reaction!

Make sure to watch the Director's Cut of Doctor Sleep when you get around to reacting to it. It's far superior!

Dick Hallorann went into 237 and had a encounter with the permanent resident that is why he warned Danny to stay out. The room was dangerous for anyone who has the shining. The malevolent spirit of Mrs. Massey haunts the room waiting for guests. This was not mentioned in the movie.

The book concentrated more on Jack's alcoholism and the history of the hotel.

Yes. I recommend that you watch Doctor Sleep. Ewan McGregor is great as a grown up Dan Torrence and the villian is a very talented actress as well.

Doctor Sleep is by far my favourite horror movie from the past 15 years, easily. The performances in The Shining and so good. Say what you want about Wendy, Shelly's performance, being at the verge of a nervous breakdown for the whole third act is nothing short of amazing (we all know the stories about Kubrick and his "technique" with Shelly), but what ends up on screen is so raw.

You did a great edit of this, especially during the bathtub scene, highlighting her reaction shot in relation to the scene, it was great! Very well presented! My favorite line, when the camera is on Scatman Crothers' face, she says "He's getting all shiny!" Ha! That's great! So is Jack-ciklson, lol. The book is very different, and yet Kubrick totally retains the mood of the spooky hotel. There is no maze in the book. Instead there are these topiary animals that seem to move when your back is turned. Very spooky. Halloran doesn't get killed in the book, the three of them make an escape, while Jack blows up the hotel. There's not an axe, instead it's a croquet mallet. Tony appears to Danny in his head, as opposed to talking to his finger. There is a real creepy scrapbook that Jack Torrance finds and studies; it has clipping of all kinds of terrible things that happened at the Overlook. Wendy is blonde and the relationship between Jack and her is a little warmer earlier in the book. Congratulations! In one week, you got through two of the most humiliating roles for an actress of the 80s: Isabella Rosellini in "Blue Velvet" and Shelley Duvall in "The Shining"! Both actresses suffered for doing those roles. PS: Since you did "The Shining", we gotta to see her react to "Carrie"! The other great Stephen King adaptation of the late 70s! Also "Creepshow", the Stephen King-written, George Romero-directed horror-comedy anthology movie. I'm assuming the husband has seen it, but if he hasn't, even more reason to do a reaction to it! That one is a blast! Anyways, "Carrie" (1976) and "Creepshow" (1983), to go with your "Shining'! Thanks for the fun vid!

People act like Wendy is so weak when she literally drags jack through the hotel and locks him in the food closet all by herself after having gone through extreme mental stress and exhaustion.

Stanley Kubrick basically tortured Shelly Duvall on set to make her into a quivering wreck. He made her do the baseball bat scene over 100 times, he made the film crew make comments about her to make her upset and he mentally abused her to get her to how he wanted her to be on film. She has suffered for years after the film because of all this.

Absolutely love you guys.. You seem so genuine... Keep it going and I will support you where I can x

Fantastic acting, directing and script! I always absolutely loved the score as well. It's a classical piece from Bela Bartok.

I remember the blood flooding from the elevators in movie trailers while watching other films in theater in 1980. Memories.....

The scene of the Child running around the house on the Tricycle is epic!

My favorite horror/thriller movie of all time! The atmosphere in this movie is SO well done! "Wendy, gimme the bat. Gimme the bat. Stop swingin' the bat. Wendy. Wendayyy! Gimme the bat!" In the BOOK, they blew up the hotel at the end. And also, the 'hedge topiary', which was all in animal shapes, came to life!

A normal regular person being presented with incomprehensibly and impossiblr horrors, as well as having to emotionally deal with your husband losing his mind and being intent on murdering you and your child in the most violent and evil ways . . . . can you say you would act rationally and pragmatically with a clear head? I don't think so. She played this very well.

8:25 - lol - seriously though, can you imagine how hard it would be to actually maintain that hedge maze? So many workers in there trimming everything back, whippersnipping all the grass, finding their way out of it, etc.

Lolol. That "All work , no play" cut-in , though. Subscribed.

"No beer no TV make Homer go something, something....".

"Are you out of your f*cking mind?" is a line I like.

9:10 Funny you should say. In the book, he finds a bunch of receipts and stories about the place that he does start writing about the hotel.

timberline lodge east of portland oregon is the outside of the overlook hotel, also the part of the oregon state hospital where one flew over the cookoo's nest was remodeled sometime in the last 20 years(i haven't lived in salem in 20 years)

33:15, like Grady said, he's always been the caretaker. There have been theories that Jack died a long time ago, that he is in hell, being punished for his sins for what he done in his past life.

Willie: Now if you need ma help, use your shinning. Bart: Don't you mean "Shining?" Willie: SHHH! You want to get sued? The Simpsons Treehouse Of Horror parody of The Shining.

In the book, there's no maze. Instead there's a topiary of animals which come to life in the climax. Dick Halloran is not killed, but escapes with Wendy and Danny. In the end, the hotel blows up from a faulty boiler. Those are the main differences I remember. A bunch of smaller ones too.

"They should just burn the hotel down." In the book, the hotel explodes at the end.

It’s those eyebrows that add to his creepiness. 🤣

Cowboy guy gauging the Missus' reactions with that subtle side glance is one of my new favorite things.

19:39...Advocaat is a Dutch drink made with eggs, sugar and brandy. If you go to a party it's normally the only thing in the drinks cabinet that's left untouched. However if you add fizzy lemonade to it it becomes a Snowball and is delicious. 😋

FYI if you’re ever being attacked and you get one good shot in. Do not go for the groin. All it does is cause pain and doesn’t do anything to prevent the man from continuing to attack. If he has even a decent pain tolerance or definitely if the person is on a drug a groin shot won’t even slow them down. You have to do enough damage that they physically can no longer attack. Eyes-they can’t see. Throat-they can’t breathe. Knees-kick them in the wrong direction and they can’t walk. (Martial arts and self-defense instructor here.)

There's a mini-series adaptation of The Shining that aired during the late '90s or early 2000s! I heard the mini-series was a more accurate take of the novel!

When Grady says "Outside party" I think he means outside of the hotel/Torrance family situation in the hotel. What's going on in the hotel at the time does not involve Hallorann. Because Hallorann has the shining, and told Danny to stay out of 237, we know he's seen some stuff in the hotel but we don't know how much or how bad it was. Considering that he was still working there it must have not been that bad. Remember that Danny's shining power is much greater than Hallorann's, so what Danny is experiencing is far beyond what Hallorann ever experienced there.

Nothing like the best vacation up there, Ah delightful! You have to love how this place goes from "Mmm this could go wrong" slowly but surely into "RUN! RUN AWAY!"

LOL "Oh no, he's goin all shiny" : )

my fav thing about this movie is how powerful its "unsettling" style of horror is. it's one thing to have a crazy axe murderer running around or bleeding ghosts wandering a hotel, but it's another thing entirely to hold the camera on the axe murderer's creepy eyes or jump-cut to the ghosts out of tempo with the rest of the scene's editing. also the advent of Steadicam does SOOOOO much for this movie! that slow creepy inhuman camera movement STILL gives me the willies lol. EDIT: I don't blame Mrs.'s reactions to Wendy lol, but it's kinda hard to watch when you know what Shelly Duvall went through, as many of the comments point out. I hope she doesn't feel too bad about it in hindsight. Kubrick and Nicholson p much bullied Duvall into personalizing all the criticism of the character as criticism of herself. one of the most nightmarish and exhausting workplace experiences I can ever imagine.

My favorite part is the pantry tour by Scatman going over all the food hahah awesome

4:10 Cool addition of the special visual effects! Nice move!

The fact that she says Wendy is a pathetic character is absolutely mind boggling to me. The character was obviously mentally, verbally, and most likely physically abused by Jack probably throughout the entire relationship but yet she just stayed and tried to keep the peace and because she still loved him. The reason why she was weeping the whole movie is pretty obvious... she hadn't yet accepted the fact that Jack was obviously insane from the get go and when she finally realized it its understandable for her to have a mental breakdown.....on top of that the fact that she realizes her own husband who she's been with for probably what 10 15 years now is now trying to murder her and their kid.... on top of that.... the hotel evil forces were waking up.... she had do so much going on in her head trying to accept that Jack was crazy that she hadnt even thought of the fact about all the evil spirits that embodied the hotel.... its a completely realistic portryal of a broken battered down sweet caring women... the fact that this lady reactor acts like Wendy's reaction to the whole thing was pathetic makes no sense to me as most people in real life would have the same emotions as Wendy throughout the film.... no one is just going to be cool,calm, and collected In a situation like this and if she acts like she would be than that's just crazy talk...

I always find it funny how people all think they'd be Rambo if they ended up in a horror movie scenario, when they're safe in a theater or at home and maybe at worst have goosebumps. In real-life situations such as mass shootings, data shows that most people are killing neither running nor fighting back, but frozen to the spot, paralyzed by fear. Until you're actually in fear of your life, you can never know how you'll react. Definitely watch Doctor Sleep. It's really a worthy follow-up. Mike Flanagan is a director to watch in the future.

Book version - Dick lives. Croquet mallet instead of an axe. Hotel blows up at the end taking Jack Torrence with it. Hauntings happen outside of the hotel. Wendy fights back way more. Tony was an accepted thing with the parents instead of hush hush. I do like how they integrate both the movie version and the book versions in Dr. Sleep.

I bought a Twinkie yesterday because watching Mrs. Movies eat one in one of your reactions gave me a hankerin'....So, long story short, Hostess owes you advert money now.

33:13 Jack features among the guests at the 1921 Overlook Hotel July 4th Ball Mrs Carey Mulligan: *surprised pikachu face*

It's telepathy when you can read other people's thoughts.

"I'm not gonna hurt you...I'm just going bash your brains in. I'm gonna bash'um right the f**k in." 'Dr. Sleep' was really good 👍

“ I just don’t think she gonna stay that beautiful” 🤣🤣🤣

Advocaat is a traditional Dutch alcoholic beverage made from eggs, sugar and brandy, and far as I know especially old ladies like it (like my grandmother did, back in the 1970s and 1980s), and they consume it with a spoon and whipcream on top. Advocaat is also the Dutch word for Lawyer. Greetings from the Netherlands!

the wife‘s reaction to Wendy is telling more about her than she probably realizes…

My favorite quote in this movie is so circumstantial. It's right after Jack sees Lloyd for the first time and Wendy interrupts to tell him that Danny's been attacked by a crazy woman. Considering what he's just seen and done, the line "Are you out of your goddamn mind!?!" is hilarious to me. BOOK SPOILERS! As for the differences in the movie and the book, from what I remember there are animal hedges that move instead of a maze, there's a bigger focus on addiction and the Torrence's dire family and life situation heading into the hotel with Jack dislocating Danny's arm as mentioned in the conversation with Lloyd, and also losing his teaching job after attacking a student on either a rough day of being dry or after a backslide (it's been 16 years since I read it, but it's one of the two). Tony's more of an actual character and sort of strange spirit guide for Danny, you get some context to other ghosts (most notably the man in the dog suit and his would-be partner), there's an idea that the 'shine' is inherited and that both Wendy and Jack have it to some degree as well that may draw parallels to genetically passed on addiction and alcoholism but that's just my take, and in the end the boiler explodes and destroys the hotel and that's how Jack dies. Haven't seen Doctor Sleep the movie, but I much preferred the book to the literary The Shining.

In the first shot of the hotel from above you can clearly see there is no hedge maze anywhere near it.

19:14 - I did some research, and "Advoccat" is a traditional Dutch alcoholic beverage made from eggs, sugar, and brandy.

Here's Johnny! If you like Stephen King there are so many adaptations to choose from.The great thing about the other adaptations is that they are a more well rounded experience but always goes back to the horror.

In the novel it makes it clear that the hotel is drawing power from the little boy. From his shining. The more power the hotel drew from the little boy the more physical manifestations it could produce.

Here’s Johnny I think gets lost, but isn’t random. It’s not only the old Tonight Show (with Johnny Carson) intro; it’s Jack Torrence’s name. Maybe it’s a generational thing, but it seems people have almost universally forgotten that the name “Jack” is a nickname for “John” - like ‘Jack’ Kennedy. In fact, Jack Nicholson’s name is ‘John Joseph Nicholson’.

And the "here's Johnny" line was a reference to the Johnny Carson Show!

Don't blame Shelley Duvall, blame Kubrick. He wanted her character like that

17:17 He's trying to use The Shining to get help. Sad fact: Shelley Duvall, who played Wendy, was emotionally abused to get a certain performance out of her by the director Stanley Kubrick. She is truly devastated throughout. It's heartbreaking when you see it in that light.

From the moment Jack took the job you could see the change start happening in him, and in the car on the way to the hotel.. something dark had come over him that was manifesting.

Favourite line: "Wendy. Darling. LIGHT of my LIFE." Close second: "Here's Johnny!" I also enjoy the way Jack mockingly says "As soon as possible?" Nicholson plays that whole confrontation terrifyingly well.

You two are my favorite reactors on YT! Your reactions are hilarious especially to my favorite genre - horror. I haven't watched Dexter since it ended and am really loving watching it all over again and realizing how much I forgot took place. Keep up the great reactions!

You're in agreement with Stephen King. He too hates what Kubrick did to the character of Wendy. She is a much stronger character in the book, often taking the initiative and proving to be a formidable opponent for both Jack and the hotel. HOWEVER, Kubrick has explained why he dumbed her character down, and to be honest it makes sense. He said a strong woman would not have tolerated Jack's bullshit, much less stayed with him for so long. So, he felt it necessary to "ugly her up" (his words), and make her lonely and socially awkward so that she would feel she had no choice but to remain with Jack. Still, her character in the movie has often been a bone of contention with critics

The woman in the room is Rose the Hat. The main antagonist in Dr.Sleep. The sequel

In the old Johnny Carson late night show that is how the announcer introduced Johnny "Herrrrreeees Johnny." You young kids don't know nuttin.

Telekinesis = Moving objects "with your mind" Telepathy = Reading minds The prefix tele- is greek and it means "at a distance" (like in television), kinesis is also greek and it means movement (like in kinetic energy, energy produced by movement) and pathos is also greek and it means feeling (like in pathetic).

Yes... watch Dr. Sleep. Good movie, great sequel. My fave line from The Shining is "Wendy, darling, light of my life. I'm not gonna hurt you. You didn't let me finish. I said I'm not gonna hurt you, I'm just gonna bash your brains in. I'm gonna bash 'em the f*** right in."

At 19:20 the drink is called Avocat. It's a Dutch custard alcoholic drink that consist of Brandy, Egg Yolks, Sugar or Honey, Vanilla, and Cream. It's very similar to Egg Nog.

"You're gonna want to hit em again" haha terrific!