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** Also, [[spoiler: Norman. After he is revealed as the villain, he drops all the act and becomes a text-book sociopath who calmly explains Claire in detail how he drowned Madison. All the while he is preparing to drown his own wife in the bathtub the same way! And the shocking part is that Norman is indeed played by ''Harrison Ford'' of all people makes it even creepier, because he is playing it as fluently as some of his more heroic roles.

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** Also, [[spoiler: Norman. After he is revealed as the villain, he drops all the act and becomes a text-book sociopath who calmly explains Claire in detail how he drowned Madison. All the while he is preparing to drown his own wife in the bathtub the same way! And the shocking part is that Norman is indeed played by ''Harrison Ford'' of all people makes it even creepier, because he is playing it as fluently as some of his more heroic roles.]]

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* NightmareFuel: Many, particularly involving [[spoiler:Madison's apparitions, including the corpse.]]

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Many, particularly involving [[spoiler:Madison's apparitions, including the corpse.]]]]
** Also, [[spoiler: Norman. After he is revealed as the villain, he drops all the act and becomes a text-book sociopath who calmly explains Claire in detail how he drowned Madison. All the while he is preparing to drown his own wife in the bathtub the same way! And the shocking part is that Norman is indeed played by ''Harrison Ford'' of all people makes it even creepier, because he is playing it as fluently as some of his more heroic roles.
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* ValuesResonance: Throughout the TheEighties and maybe even TheNineties, it would have been more common for [[spoiler: the ghostly mistress to be presented as the villain or even a monster, in the style of Film/FatalAttraction, with the adulterous husband being cast as a sympathetic, flawed hero. Here, Harrison Ford's character TRIES to paint the situation in such a way, but it's all a self-serving lie. The powerful, older, socially respected man being the villain, and the young student he had an affair with being ultimately more sympathetic resonates with post-MeToo themes.]]
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* SpiritualAdaptation: The film feels like its the more faithful version of the 1977 novel ''Literature/TheShining'' than its infamous [[Film/TheShining 1980 film adaptation]], complete with Creator/MichellePfeiffer as blonde hair, cute, attractive, and beautiful Wendy unlike her Sherley Duvall's black hair and ugly 1980 film counterpart; in fact, Creator/StephenKing will like this after he [[DisownedAdaptation disowned]] with Creator/StanleyKubrick's 1980 film adaptation. [[spoiler:The BigBad being played by Creator/HarrisonFord, who was considered by Kubrick for the role of Jack Torrance before Creator/JackNicholson was chosen further helps.]]

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* SpiritualAdaptation: The film feels like its the more faithful version of the 1977 novel ''Literature/TheShining'' than its infamous [[Film/TheShining 1980 film adaptation]], complete with Creator/MichellePfeiffer as blonde hair, cute, attractive, and beautiful haired Wendy unlike her Sherley Duvall's black hair and ugly dark haired 1980 film counterpart; in fact, Creator/StephenKing will like this after he [[DisownedAdaptation disowned]] with Creator/StanleyKubrick's 1980 film adaptation. [[spoiler:The BigBad being played by Creator/HarrisonFord, who was considered by Kubrick for the role of Jack Torrance before Creator/JackNicholson was chosen further helps.]]
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* SpiritualAdaptation: The film feels like its the more faithful version of the 1977 novel ''Literature/TheShining'' than its infamous [[Film/TheShining 1980 film adaptation]], complete with Creator/MichellePfeiffer as blonde hair, cute, attractive, and beautiful Wendy unlike her Sherley Duvall's black hair and ugly 1980 film counterpart; in fact, Creator/StephenKing will like this after he [[DisownedAdaptation disowned]] with Creator/StanleyKubrick's 1980 film adaptation.

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* SpiritualAdaptation: The film feels like its the more faithful version of the 1977 novel ''Literature/TheShining'' than its infamous [[Film/TheShining 1980 film adaptation]], complete with Creator/MichellePfeiffer as blonde hair, cute, attractive, and beautiful Wendy unlike her Sherley Duvall's black hair and ugly 1980 film counterpart; in fact, Creator/StephenKing will like this after he [[DisownedAdaptation disowned]] with Creator/StanleyKubrick's 1980 film adaptation. [[spoiler:The BigBad being played by Creator/HarrisonFord, who was considered by Kubrick for the role of Jack Torrance before Creator/JackNicholson was chosen further helps.]]

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