An exploration of various interpretations of Stanley Kubrick's horror film, The Shining (1980).An exploration of various interpretations of Stanley Kubrick's horror film, The Shining (1980).An exploration of various interpretations of Stanley Kubrick's horror film, The Shining (1980).
- Awards
- 2 wins & 16 nominations
Sam Walton
- Cast
- (as Samuel Walton)
Lisa Burns
- Self
- (archive footage)
Louise Burns
- Self
- (archive footage)
Ryan O'Neal
- Self
- (archive footage)
Scatman Crothers
- Dick Hallorann
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Tom Cruise
- Dr. William Harford
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Barry Dennen
- Bill Watson
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Kirk Douglas
- Spartacus
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaLeon Vitali, former assistant to Stanley Kubrick, dismissed the theories in this film as "gibberish," saying they are entirely without merit.
- GoofsBill Blakemore mistakenly attributes a literary quotation. "History is a nightmare from which I'm trying to awake" is from James Joyce's Ulysses, not from anything by T. S. Eliot.
- Crazy creditsThe end credits scroll downward.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Minty Comedic Arts: 10 Things - The Shining: The Lost Version (2022)
- SoundtracksWe Cannot Escape the Past from the album 'A Stairway to the Stars'
Composed and Performed by The Caretaker
By Arrangement with History Always Favours the Winners
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A Documentary for Deniers
Just got done watching it. My initial reaction: "Wow. These people are nuts."
Don't get me wrong - this is a fun watch as long as you don't take any of it too seriously. I know the film pretty well, but these "analysts" go out of their way to ignore the obvious in order to drive on to their wacky conclusions.
Thanks to the infinite paranoia pool that we call the Internet, the mythology about The Shining is outstripping the history of the film itself. This is less about the movie but more about people who look for conspiracies in every corner. Faked moon landings? Set geometry? Minotaurs? Absurd, sure, but how different are they from those people that deny birth certificates or imagine black UN helicopters or, most recently, those who say Sandy Hook was faked. These Deniers create their own logic, disallow any reality that doesn't fit and then warp the facts to fit their conclusions. I think this film really does a great job showing these people for what they are - delusional and and self-obsessed.
We can let them be entertaining, but we can never take any of what they say seriously.
Don't get me wrong - this is a fun watch as long as you don't take any of it too seriously. I know the film pretty well, but these "analysts" go out of their way to ignore the obvious in order to drive on to their wacky conclusions.
Thanks to the infinite paranoia pool that we call the Internet, the mythology about The Shining is outstripping the history of the film itself. This is less about the movie but more about people who look for conspiracies in every corner. Faked moon landings? Set geometry? Minotaurs? Absurd, sure, but how different are they from those people that deny birth certificates or imagine black UN helicopters or, most recently, those who say Sandy Hook was faked. These Deniers create their own logic, disallow any reality that doesn't fit and then warp the facts to fit their conclusions. I think this film really does a great job showing these people for what they are - delusional and and self-obsessed.
We can let them be entertaining, but we can never take any of what they say seriously.
- jtrascap-1
- Feb 19, 2013
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- Also known as
- Soba 237
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $296,359
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $29,693
- Mar 31, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $367,406
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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