History NightmareFuel / TheShining

It might be just [[Literature/{{It}} the second]] work by Creator/StephenKing to [[NightmareFuel/{{It}} get its own NF page]], but ''there is no way'' this could make the movie [[NightmareFuel any less shit-pants-scary.]]

* Shelley Duvall in and of herself is pretty freaking scary. Shelley Duvall contorting her face in terror? Almost unbearable. Probably because Duvall was probably ''not'' acting. Kubrick worked on making her as unnerved and on-edge as possible while filming the movie.

** Even worse, Creator/StanleyKubrick, being an obsessed perfectionist, had Nicholson and Crothers shoot the scene '''''42 times'''''. Crothers eventually broke down, sobbing his eyes out, and screamed at Kubrick, "WHAT DO YOU ''WANT'' FROM ME?!?!"[[note]]Keep in mind, Crothers was nearly 70 years old when filming this film. Jack Nicholson had to intervene on his behalf to keep it from causing further stress.[[/note]]

* 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...they basically were an early version of the [[Series/DoctorWho Weeping Angels]].

* The entire 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 Kubrick himself filming.

* Horace Derwent, an expy of ''Creator/HowardHughes'', is the most notable inhabitant of the hotel, a legendary millionaire who once tried to make the Overlook into a profitable business, but like so many others, he failed. However, unlike most others, his spirit still lingers at the Overlook, lording over the other ghosts of the hotel, especially his male lover Roger. What really makes Derwent scary, other than his casual sadism and greed, is that there is no reason for him to haunt the hotel. There is no record of him dying in the hotel, having sold it some time before he faded from public view, but despite this, he's still there, holding court over the other ghosts of the Overlookds past. And he's just as sadistic and cruel as he was in life, much to Danny's (and Jack's) terror.

* The music, ''especially'' the opening theme. You know you have one ''hell'' of a scary ride ahead when just the ''opening theme'' makes you want to watch this with the lights on.

* In the novel, Danny's first encounter with the woman in Room 217 is just horrifying. The description of her bloated, rotted corpse floating in the bathtub is horrific enough (and she's also ''[[SlasherSmile smiling]]''), but then she starts to ''get up'' and chase after Danny, who by this point is so utterly consumed with terror that he isn't even able to think to open the door to let himself out. At least the woman in the movie starts out looking attractive. Not so much here, as even when she was alive she was pretty ugly.

** Even worse, Creator/StanleyKubrick, being an obsessed perfectionist, had Nicholson & Crothers shoot the scene ''42 times''. Crothers eventually broke down, sobbing his eyes out, and screamed at Kubrick, "WHAT DO YOU ''WANT'' FROM ME?!?!"[[note]]Keep in mind, Crothers was nearly 70 years old when filming this film. Jack Nicholson had to intervene on his behalf to keep it from causing further stress.[[/note]]

** The ways in which the same repeated phrase is structured on a few of the pages is just like how paragraphs and dialogue would be in a real novel/manuscript which in itself is kind of unnerving.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmOoekbK6YI This]] lovely moment. Wendy, half-insane after her husband trying to kill her and all the other crazy shit she's seen that night, stumbles upon a dude in a bear suit blowing a well-dressed middle-aged man. And that horribly spooky music just sends chills down the spine. If you walked in on that couple in real life, living or ghosts, and they gave you that look, like ''you'' were the depraved one, chances are you would run the fuck outta there. Not to mention, in the book the man in the dog/bear suit is wearing said suit and performing the favor because the man in the tuxedo manipulated and broke him through psychological abuse.

---> '''Jack''': '''Wendy, baby, I think you hurt my head real bad. I'm dizzy. I need a doctor. Honey, don't leave me in here.'''

* King once talked about his inspiration for the novel, he and his wife were out on a trip, and stopped at a hotel that were just closing up for the winter, and manned with a skeleton crew, leaving them almost completely alone in the building. Imagine having to stay in a place like that.

* Wendy's abusive mother, who hated her and resented her for taking her husbands attention. While she wasnt ''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".

* In 2013, King published ''Literature/DoctorSleep'', a sequel to ''The Shining'' that focuses on Danny as an adult. A synopsis is available on one of the wiki sites [[http://stephenking.wikia.com/wiki/Doctor_Sleep here]]. Please read at your own risk.

-->'''Jack''': ''So how do you like it!?!''

* Wendy's abusive mother, who hated her and resented her for taking her husbands attention. While she wasnt ''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's not even your mother. It's like she wants to ''eat'' you".

* At the beginning of the movie, when Danny asks Tony to show him why he doesn't want to go to the Overlook.... we get to see a brief shot of the blood in the elevators and the twin girls.

* You think the woman in 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]].

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