History NightmareFuel / TheShining

** 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 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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** 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 by the only mechanism available to it - regression. Inverting the letters. Trying to warn his mother the only way he has...

* [[HellIsThatNoise Redrum.]] [[MadnessMantra REDRUM!]] ''REDRUM!!!!''

** And there's Jack's father, who was physically abusive to his wife and children, and once horribly beat the former for no apparent reason when Jack was a child.

* The reason why Jack lost his last job and had to take on the caretaker position. Before the Overlook, Jack had worked as a teacher at a fancy prep school, also serving as coach for the debate team. One of the students on the team, George Hatfield, had a bad stutter, and when Jack inevitably gave him the boot, he accused him of rigging things against him (which the story later implies that he did). Afterwards, Jack came out to find him slashing the tires of his car, and beat the shit out of him - hard enough to leave a dent in the car's hood and give George a concussion. And this was ''after'' he'd gone on the wagon.

** Even worse, she is one of the ghosts that followed Danny home after the events of the novel, and reappear in ''Literature/DoctorSleep''. [[spoiler:Danny seals her inside his mind]].
** [[NauseaFuel The description of her when she was still alive]]. She's never named, but Watson recalls her visiting the hotel with her grossly underage lover. She's well into her 60's, breasts sagging, poorly dyed hair, vericose veins all over her legs, acting like she's 40 years younger than she really is, not to mention acting like an enormous asshole to everyone around her. When her lover finally has enough and abandons her, she kills herself in Room 217.

* The encounter with the woman in Room 237 [[spoiler:who turns out to be dead and decaying... after Jack lustily embraces her]].

* Dick spends the entire movie traveling across the country to investigate ''a hunch''. [[spoiler:He gets an axe in the chest as soon as he walks in the door]]. Try watching this movie as a ten-year-old...

* And, of course, at the end of it all, when all of a sudden, the face of Jack [[spoiler:completely frozen with a terrifying grim face, eyes completely open and dead, and teeth out.]] The music makes it all worse, as its one hell of a ScareChord coming from out of nowhere, along the image. Just when you thought it all ended, the movie just won't let you go without a final scare.

* Jack confronting Wendy after the reveal of his sanity slippage with the infamous (above example) "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy". The whole scene is NightmareFuel in its own right. Jack has become a ranting, insane shell of his former self. [[spoiler:Wendy is traumatized, frightened, confused and scared for him and their son's well being. As she pleads to him Jack continues mocking her and backing her up the stairway before Wendy successfully knocks him unconscious with her baseball bat and drags him into the dry goods food locker.]]

* Jack's behaviour when he comes back from Room 237. There's none of the palpable resentment below the surface of all his interactions with his family up to now, no creeping influence of the hotel driving him crazy, or even the vaguely "wrong" quality he gives off in the interview scene - it's so mannered, so uncharacteristically gentle, so obviously artificial, as if something were trying its hardest to imitate a good, reassuring husband and keep Wendy and Danny feeling nice and safe [[AxCrazy with him]]... And then the sheer ''rage'' that starts pouring out as soon as Wendy insists they leave the hotel, with the sense that every bit of it is coming purely from Jack.

* The finale during the intense chase throughout that damn hedge maze. [[spoiler:A bit of {{foreshadowing}}. The maze is seen earlier in the film when Danny and Wendy are exploring and playing in it]]. Throughout the whole scene Jack is [[SuperPersistentPredator viciously]] and [[TheDeterminator relentlessly]] chasing Danny, [[AxCrazy fire axe at hand]], throughout the snow covered maze. The ominous nature of the scene is increased even further by the only thing illuminating the way being a bunch of floodlights giving that "NothingIsScarier" vibe. And to top it all off? After Danny manages to elude his father, we hear the [[HellIsThatNoise whooping, wailing moans and muttering groans]] of Jack succumbing to his frostbite and injuries... [[http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/images/casts/jack_nicholson_s.jpg and one scene later...]]

** The haunting needs to be elaborated on; Jack hears his father coming from the ''radio'', leading to Jack smashing it in a panic and isolating them even more from the rest of the world.

* The reason why Jack lost his last job and had to take on the caretaker position. Before the Overlook, Jack had worked as a teacher at a fancy prep school, also serving as coach for the debate team. One of the students on the team had a bad stutter, and when Jack inevitably gave him the boot, he accused him of rigging things against him (which the story later implies that he did). Afterwards, Jack came out during lunch break to find the student slashing the tires of his car, and beat the shit out of him. And this was ''after'' he'd gone on the wagon.

* The topiary animals in the novel are terrifying. What makes them even worse is the fact that they only seem to move when they ''aren't being looked at'' (yes, even in the split second Jack looks from one to the other), changing into a different position each time, getting closer and closer...

[[caption-width-right:350:All Work and no Play makes Jack a Dull Boy.]]

* The point where Wendy, finally able to see the ghosts, runs into Grady with his skull visibly split. "Great party, isn't it?"

** You think 237 was bad? You should see [[http://i13.kanobu.ru/r/9d77a13deb5ab18a0eaffe29c6004458/915x549/u.kanobu.ru/longreads/2015/4/17/e78f0dfb-17b9-4c70-9251-787a55066c69.jpg the woman in Room 217]] from the 1997 ''Shining'' mini-series.

** You think 237 was bad? You should see [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=CSSISh4cUNo#t=19 the woman in Room 217]] from the 1997 ''Shining'' mini-series. You're not quite the same afterwards...

** {NauseaFuel The description of her when she was still alive]]. She's never named, but Watson recalls her visiting the hotel with her grossly underage lover. She's well into her 60's, breasts sagging, poorly dyed hair, vericose veins all over her legs, acting like she's 40 years younger than she really is, not to mention acting like an enormous asshole to everyone around her. When her lover finally has enough and abandons her, she kills herself in Room 217.

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[[caption-width-right:350: [[CreepyTwins Come play with us, Danny...]] ]]

** Even worse, she is one of the ghosts that followed Danny home after the events of the novel, and reappear in ''Literature/DoctorSleep''. [[spoiler: Danny seals her inside his mind]].

--->''The thing was, you couldn't watch all of them. Not at once.''

* Dick spends the entire movie traveling across the country to investigate ''a hunch''. [[spoiler: He gets an axe in the chest as soon as he walks in the door]]. Try watching this movie as a ten-year-old...

* And, of course, at the end of it all, when all of a sudden, the face of Jack [[spoiler: completely frozen with a terrifying grim face, eyes completely open and dead, and teeth out.]] The music makes it all worse, as its one hell of a ScareChord coming from out of nowhere, along the image. Just when you thought it all ended, the movie just won't let you go without a final scare.

* Jack confronting Wendy after the reveal of his sanity slippage with the infamous (above example) "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy". The whole scene is NightmareFuel in its own right. Jack has become a ranting, insane shell of his former self. [[spoiler: Wendy is traumatized, frightened, confused and scared for him and their son's well being. As she pleads to him Jack continues mocking her and backing her up the stairway before Wendy successfully knocks him unconscious with her baseball bat and drags him into the dry goods food locker.]]

* The blood flooding out of the elevator. It's an iconic shot from the movie, yet it's completely illusional, a symbolic vision of the horrors hiding in the hotel. Only Danny can see it, and presumably Dick Halloran as well. Wendy finally sees it near the end when the Hotel has grown strong enough to affect her too.
* The finale during the intense chase throughout that damn hedge maze. [[spoiler: A bit of {{foreshadowing}}. The maze is seen earlier in the film when Danny and Wendy are exploring and playing in it]]. Throughout the whole scene Jack is [[SuperPersistentPredator viciously]] and [[TheDeterminator relentlessly]] chasing Danny, [[AxCrazy fire axe at hand]], throughout the snow covered maze. The ominous nature of the scene is increased even further by the only thing illuminating the way being a bunch of floodlights giving that "NothingIsScarier" vibe. And to top it all off? After Danny manages to elude his father, we hear the [[HellIsThatNoise whooping, wailing moans and muttering groans]] of Jack succumbing to his frostbite and injuries... [[http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/images/casts/jack_nicholson_s.jpg and one scene later...]]

* Jack's behaviour when he comes back from Room 237. There's none of the palpable resentment below the surface of all his interactions with his family up to now, no creeping influence of the hotel driving him crazy, or even the vaguely "wrong" quality he gives off in the interview scene - it's so mannered, so uncharacteristically gentle, so obviously artificial, as if something were trying its hardest to imitate a good, reassuring husband and keep Wendy and Danny feeling nice and safe [[AxeCrazy with him]]... And then the sheer ''rage'' that starts pouring out as soon as Wendy insists they leave the hotel, with the sense that every bit of it is coming purely from Jack.

* The finale during the intense chase throughout that damn hedge maze. [[spoiler: A bit of Foreshadowing. The maze is seen earlier in the film when Danny and Wendy are exploring and playing in it]]. Throughout the whole scene Jack is [[SuperPersistentPredator viciously]] and [[TheDeterminator relentlessly]] chasing Danny, [[AxeCrazy fire axe at hand]], throughout the snow covered maze. The ominous nature of the scene is increased even further by the only thing illuminating the way being a bunch of floodlights giving that "NothingisScarier" vibe. And to top it all off? After Danny manages to elude his father, we hear the [[HellisThatNoise whooping, wailing moans and muttering groans]] of Jack succumbing to his frostbite and injuries... [[http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/images/casts/jack_nicholson_s.jpg and one scene later...]]

* The TrackingShot in which Danny rides his tricycle through the hallways of the hotel, the scene has the viewer on edge since they do not know what [[NothingIsScarier lies ahead of the halls.]]