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* Halloran briefly notices a huge dark shape emerging from the burning hotel. Was that smoke or something else?
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* There's a scene where Jack smashes a hole through the door of a room Wendy is hiding in, sticks his face in ''(similarly to the infamous "HEEEEEERE'S JOHNNY!" scene from Kubrick's version)'' and playfully says "[[FauxAffablyEvil boo!]]" The scariest part however, is when he loses his cool and lets out an [[HellIsThatNoise extremely loud, almost inhuman-sounding roar]] when Wendy flees even further.
* [[NightmareFace "Oh, there you are,]] [[FauxAffablyEvil Doc.]] [[DissonantSerenity I've been looking for you!"]]
* [[NightmareFace "Oh, there you are,]] [[FauxAffablyEvil Doc.]] [[DissonantSerenity I've been looking for you!"]]
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* You think the woman in 237 was bad? You should see the woman in Room 217. She's pretty much a decaying corpse.
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* You think the woman in 237 was bad? You should see the woman in Room 217. She's pretty much It's way closer to the of a decaying corpse.grotesque, rotting corpse described in the book.
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* You think the woman in 237 was bad? You should see the woman in Room 217.
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* You think the woman in 237 was bad? You should see the woman in Room 217. She's pretty much a decaying corpse.
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* The DaylightHorror of Danny and Wendy playing in the hedge maze... with the camera taking a bird's eye view of the maze, with Jack menacingly looking over them in a Godlike manner -- and a SlasherSmile slowly starts to form.
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* The DaylightHorror of scene where Danny and Wendy are playing in the hedge maze... with the camera taking a bird's eye view of the maze, with Jack menacingly looking over them in a Godlike manner -- and a SlasherSmile slowly starts to form.
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* The deleted prologue, ''Before The Play'', contains a great amount of pure nightmare-fuel scenes that truly show how monstrous and abominable the Overlook Hotel is.
** The first part of the prologue, is centered around the creation of the hotel itself, and the amount of horrifying deaths or near-deaths is frightening. The opening week of the Overlook was a series of especially disturbing days, beginning with a guest fainting upon the doors first being opened due to seeing ''something'' too horrible to describe, and ending with a man ''choking to death'' during a great evening banquet in front of all the horrified guests.
** The second part of the prologue illustrates how the Overlook Hotel, even during full summer and at the lowest of its dark powers, could still break minds. After wearing-out a female guest by a series of extremely disturbing nightmares throughout all of her stay, the spirits of the hotel finally send her spiralling into a terrified madness when, in the middle of the night, they make a hand appear from ''under her bed'' and seize her arm...
** The story of Lewis/Roger's life is extremely tragic, but becomes horrifying when we learn how he died. He killed himself by overdose, and this is what the official reports wrote down - but Roger never had any intention of killing himself. He just wanted to sleep after a particularly humiliating evening, when he got into his hotel room he realized he forgot his sleeping pills... Until, upon checking the previously empty medecine-cabinet, he notices a bottle of sleeping pills seemingly ''manifested out of nowhere'', but that in his exhaustion he takes without asking many questions.
** The first part of the prologue, is centered around the creation of the hotel itself, and the amount of horrifying deaths or near-deaths is frightening. The opening week of the Overlook was a series of especially disturbing days, beginning with a guest fainting upon the doors first being opened due to seeing ''something'' too horrible to describe, and ending with a man ''choking to death'' during a great evening banquet in front of all the horrified guests.
** The second part of the prologue illustrates how the Overlook Hotel, even during full summer and at the lowest of its dark powers, could still break minds. After wearing-out a female guest by a series of extremely disturbing nightmares throughout all of her stay, the spirits of the hotel finally send her spiralling into a terrified madness when, in the middle of the night, they make a hand appear from ''under her bed'' and seize her arm...
** The story of Lewis/Roger's life is extremely tragic, but becomes horrifying when we learn how he died. He killed himself by overdose, and this is what the official reports wrote down - but Roger never had any intention of killing himself. He just wanted to sleep after a particularly humiliating evening, when he got into his hotel room he realized he forgot his sleeping pills... Until, upon checking the previously empty medecine-cabinet, he notices a bottle of sleeping pills seemingly ''manifested out of nowhere'', but that in his exhaustion he takes without asking many questions.
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** Also, when Danny straight up asks his dad that he wouldn't ever hurt him or Wendy, where normally you'd expect a quick, emphatic response of "No, of course not" from your father, one of the people meant to protect and care for you, instead Danny receives a long, silent, detached stare from his father before Jack finally replies, "What do you mean?" The threat of the impending violence to come is no more palpable than in this scene, and it is absolutely chilling.
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* Whilst Danny and Jack have always realised that something supernatural was at work Wendy has been blissfully unaware all this time. It's only when she is running around in a panic at the end she starts seeing the ghosts for the first time, seeing things that she know can't be there (as if being trapped in an isolated location with her husband going murderously psychotic wasn't bad enough!).
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** One of the most effective surreal elements, and yet one so subtle most viewers won't notice it consciously, is how the construction of the Overlook seem... [[AlienGeometries impossible]]. That's because it is: Kubrick had the set designed so the walls and furniture could be moved easily when off camera, so whenever someone is walking/riding through the halls, they take turns that should circle back into a previous hall or to the outside, but don't. Also the doors of the rooms are spaced far too close for how big the apartments are, and the Torrance's room has a strange configuration unlike any of the others.
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* "'''''HERE'S JOHNNY!'''''"'''''"HERE'S JOHNNY!"'''''
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* "HERE'S JOHNNY!""'''''HERE'S JOHNNY!'''''"
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** The look on poor Wendy's face as she's goes through the entirety of Jack's "novel". With every page she flips through her eyes get wider and wider in horror and she begins to panic and flip through it faster, when from behind her...
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** A reminder that Wendy enters the hall already holding the baseball bat and looking furtively around even before she lays eyes on the manuscript. Though she doesn't want to consciously admit it, she knows that something is terribly wrong with Jack and that she and Danny are in danger; seeing Jack's MadnessMantra only confirmed what she already knew.
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** King’s revelation about his occasional feelings of antagonism towards his children also qualifies as FridgeBrillance and FridgeHorror. The brilliance comes in the idea that writing the novel might have enabled King to gain cathartic release of his feelings towards his children and ensured that he would never beat them. The horror comes when you wonder what might have happened had King not written the novel and gotten his antagonistic feelings out.
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** King’s revelation about his occasional feelings of antagonism towards his children also qualifies as FridgeBrillance FridgeBrilliance and FridgeHorror. The brilliance comes in the idea that writing the novel might have enabled King to gain cathartic release of his feelings towards his children and ensured that he would never beat them. The horror comes when you wonder what might have happened had King not written the novel and gotten his antagonistic feelings out.
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* Wendy's abusive mother, who hated her and resented her for taking her husbands attention. While she wasn't ''quite'' as bad as Jack's father, Wendy belives that her emotional abuse drove her father into an early grave, and Danny is ''terrified'' of her, despite her never abusing him, and in fact dotes on him. In his own words, "It's like she wasn't your mommy at all. Like she wanted to ''eat'' you".
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* Wendy's abusive mother, who hated her and resented her for taking her husbands husband’s attention. While she wasn't ''quite'' as bad as Jack's father, Wendy belives that her emotional abuse drove her father into an early grave, and Danny is ''terrified'' of her, despite her never abusing him, and in fact dotes on him. In his own words, "It's like she wasn't your mommy at all. Like she wanted to ''eat'' you".
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** King’s revelation about his occasional feelings of antagonism towards his children also qualifies as FridgeBrillance and FridgeHorror. The brilliance comes in the idea that writing the novel might have enabled King to gain cathartic release of his feelings towards his children and ensured that he would never beat them. The horror comes when you wonder what might have happened had King not written the novel and gotten his antagonistic feelings out.
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* Creator/ShelleyDuvall in and of herself is pretty freaking scary. Seeing her contorting her face in terror? Almost unbearable. Probably because Duvall was probably ''not'' acting. [[EnforcedMethodActing Kubrick worked on making her as unnerved and on-edge as possible]] while filming the movie, which likely impacted the actress' mental health for the rest of her life...
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* Creator/ShelleyDuvall in and of herself is pretty freaking scary. Seeing her contorting her face in terror? Almost unbearable. Probably because Duvall was probably ''not'' acting. [[EnforcedMethodActing Kubrick worked on making her as unnerved and on-edge as possible]] while filming the movie, which likely impacted the actress' mental emotional health for the rest of her life...
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** This is all kinds of FridgeHorror when you realize ''what'' is causing Danny to do this. He's just a little kid whose brain is trying (unsuccessfully) to shield itself from the EldritchAbomination that is the Overlook. It copes with the monstrous things it is seeing via Danny's "shining" by the only mechanism available to it - regression. Inverting the letters. Trying to stay sane long enough to warn his mother in the only way he can...
** This is all kinds of FridgeHorror when you realize ''what'' is causing Danny to do this. He's just a little kid whose brain is trying (unsuccessfully) to shield itself from the EldritchAbomination that is the Overlook. It copes with the monstrous things it is seeing via Danny's "shining" by the only mechanism available to it - regression. Inverting the letters. Trying to stay sane long enough to warn his mother in the only way he can...
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* [[HellIsThatNoise Redrum. Redrum. Redrum.]] [[MadnessMantra REDRUM!]] ''REDRUM!!!!''[[note]]'''''MURDER'''''[[/note]]
''REDRUM!!!!!''[[note]]'''''MURDER'''''[[/note]]
** This is all kinds of FridgeHorror when you realize ''what'' is causing Danny to do this. He's just a little kid whose brain is trying (unsuccessfully) to shield itself from the EldritchAbomination that is the Overlook. It copes with the monstrous things it is seeingvia by Danny's "shining" by the only mechanism available to it - regression. Inverting the letters. Trying to stay sane long enough to warn his mother in the only way he can...
** This is all kinds of FridgeHorror when you realize ''what'' is causing Danny to do this. He's just a little kid whose brain is trying (unsuccessfully) to shield itself from the EldritchAbomination that is the Overlook. It copes with the monstrous things it is seeing
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* Creator/ShelleyDuvall in and of herself is pretty freaking scary. Seing her contorting her face in terror? Almost unbearable. Probably because Duvall was probably ''not'' acting. [[EnforcedMethodActing Kubrick worked on making her as unnerved and on-edge as possible]] while filming the movie. Which likely impacted the actress' mental health for the rest of her life...
** YMMV, but in itself the fact that Kubrick did that and not only got away with it, but is still praised for the result to this day is another kind of nightmare fuel, and possibly worse than anything going on in the movie.
* Dick spends the entire movie traveling across the country to investigate ''a hunch''. He gets an axe in the chest as soon as he walks in the door. Try watching this movie as a ten-year-old...
** YMMV, but in itself the fact that Kubrick did that and not only got away with it, but is still praised for the result to this day is another kind of nightmare fuel, and possibly worse than anything going on in the movie.
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* Creator/ShelleyDuvall in and of herself is pretty freaking scary. Seing Seeing her contorting her face in terror? Almost unbearable. Probably because Duvall was probably ''not'' acting. [[EnforcedMethodActing Kubrick worked on making her as unnerved and on-edge as possible]] while filming the movie. Which movie, which likely impacted the actress' mental health for the rest of her life...
** YMMV, but in itself the fact that Kubrick did that and not only got away with it, but is still praised for the result to this day is another kind of nightmare fuel, and possibly worse than anything going on in the movie.
* Dick spends the entire movie traveling across the country to investigate ''a hunch''. He gets an axe in the chest as soon as only moments after he walks in the door. Try watching this movie as a ten-year-old...door.
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* Let's just say the entire fucking film qualifies as this, due to its surreal, almost dreamlike atmosphere, which is more in line with something you would see in a film by Creator/DarioArgento or Creator/DavidLynch aside from Creator/StanleyKubrick himself filming.
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* Let's just say the entire fucking film qualifies as this, due to its surreal, almost dreamlike atmosphere, which is more in line with something you would see in a film by Creator/DarioArgento or Creator/DavidLynch aside from Creator/StanleyKubrick himself filming.
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* Lloyd the bartender. Joe Turkel's performance is so creepy. All he does is stare unblinkingly at Jack, smile politely at him and give him a drink, and yet he still manages to come across as evil incarnate. Maybe it's the NothingIsScarier effect that he never does anything scary like the other ghosts, but you know he could if he wanted to.
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* Lloyd the bartender. Joe Turkel's Creator/JoeTurkel's performance is so creepy. All he does is stare unblinkingly at Jack, smile politely at him and give him a drink, and yet he still manages to come across as evil incarnate. Maybe it's the NothingIsScarier effect that he never does anything scary like the other ghosts, but you know he could if he wanted to.
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* [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0832104/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t6 Philip Stone]] really sells his performance as Grady, and the restrained rage he exudes during his conversation with Jack in the Gold Room's lavatory ratchets up the suspense.
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seriously, that is not Grady. in the script this guy is referred to as Injured Guest. according to IMDB he is played by Norman Gay. Grady is played by Philip Stone. they dont even look or sound alike.
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* Once the ghosts in the hotel have finally and completely taken control of Jack, Danny confronts his "father" and demands the ghosts face him, no tricks or deceptions. So Jack ''beats his own face in'' with the roque mallet...and then keeps talking to Danny.
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* Starts almost right from the first scene, when Danny begs Tony, despite his reluctance, to show him why he didn't want to go to the hotel. Tony gives him his - and our - first look at the absolute horror that is the Overlook. SmashCut to Danny's BringMyBrownPants ''utterly terrified'' expression. Then you find out he ''had a seizure'' almost immediately thereafter.
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