THE SHINING (1980) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION
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This was very DISTURBING! I can't believe what I saw... What other horror film should I check out?
The SHINING (Full-Length Reaction) here: www.patreon.com/posts/shining-full-63055752
"Come And See" many say it's the scariest most disturbing movie ever made a true horror in the guise of a "war" movie.
Have you seen Hereditary? It’s a similar “feel” for provoking anxiety and exploring the psychological undertones…without much release 😬😅
Requiem for a Dream. Not horror but disturbing
That's as good as it gets dude, what direction, sets, actors and an unnerving sound track!
You now MUST watch the sequel !! --- DOCTOR SLEEP ---
Wow! This has to be the best Shining reaction I've seen. Such a raw, pure & genuine reaction. You were really making me feel your emotion and I felt like I was watching it all over again for the fist time. Thank You for that.
Agreed. His reactions were my reactions when I saw this as a kid
Facts. You can tell he felt how evil this movie is. Haha.
Agreed, this was a wonderful reaction. I prefer psychological thriller films over outright gore slasher movies, because it's more intellectual in nature.
Agree 😊
I agree
It’s crazy to believe now, but Shelley Duvall (who played Wendy) was nominated as Worst Actress at the Razzies for this! I think she gives one of the genuinely best performances ever in a horror film, seeing Wendy slowly break down the longer they’re at the hotel is very heartbreaking.
That's showed how corrupt Hollywood is, tortured her into making an amazing performance (wich she did) and then proceeded to call her a bad actress. She had a very unique beauty to her too. Kinda like anya taylor, their face Is different but beautiful.
I'd read the book and then saw the movie at the theater. I thought it was one of the most stupid movies I'd ever seen. It just didn't work for me. Then, a couple years later, I watched it on TV with my girlfriend. With the lights off. Just the two of us. In a freaking huge empty house.
That's when I got the movie.
Duvall does such an amazing job that it is easily interpreted as over the top. But it really isn't. She just becomes that freaked out. Based on how damaged she was psychologically afterward, she should have won an Academy Award.
Kubrick never makes the same movie twice, but they're all an unforgettable and masterfully executed experience.
I so agree! But, incredibly, Stephen King has publicly stated, many times, in print and on film, that he absolutely _hated_ how Kubrick filmed it, and that he never even watched the movie! What a prick. Yes, he wrote it, but it’s so strange that King didn’t, at all, appreciate how masterfully, as was/is, by far, the general consensus, Kubrick brought King’s spooky story to life.
Yet they all end the same way. A perfect circle showing the futility of life. Paths of glory ends with the men again about to return to the front. The same thing they did at the start. Spartacus ends with his wife showing him his child for the first time while he dies on the cross. Dr Strangelove ends with the Russians and Americans scheming to find the best mine shafts after they’ve destroyed the world. A continuation of the insanity that started the whole thing. 2001 ends with the same transformation. Ape into man. Man into God. The shining? The film could start up again with another season at the Overlook. Kubrick was an absolutely fascinating director. I miss him.
@@poempadgett4664 Have you watched King's "fixed" movie version of The Shining? It's laughable. King was and still is a mediocre author. He creates some flashy and sometimes even original ideas, but the way he writes is crude and often juvenile. On the other hand, Stanley Kubrick was an auteur of cinema storytelling in the truest sense. An American Ingmar Bergman or Fellini, the opposite of mediocre and commercially over-saturated.
THE master
I think/feel his stuff should be watched in silence in the dark alone, not for reactions
@@deckofcards87Stephen King is the best horror author, honestly. BUT, king is NOT a good movie critic or movie director.
So his movie opinions shouldn’t be took that seriously
I read the book in high school
1978 and I snuck it into study hall. The book scared the everloving hell out of me. The movie was a pretty big deal when it came out and still holds up well after all these years.
The reason Jack is in the picture at the end of the movie is because he was consumed by The overlook hotel it wanted to consume Danny because of his powerful psychic abilities
In the 1920s, a beautiful young Starlet of Silent film vacationed at the Overlook. She was gorgeous, well-known and rich. ....When she retired, she ended up living at the Overlook, every May through October. ...When she grew old, one day her longtime Boytoy/Companion left her.....for a younger lady. Despondent and broken, the elderly Starlet drowned herself in her bathtub....in Room 237. She.....wasn't found for awhile. Both naked ghosts are the same person
"Dr. Sleep" is a sequel to this story, that Stephen King wrote over 30 years later. It picks up when Danny is an adult, still struggling with his psychic ability ( his "shining" )
It was made into a movie just a few years ago..
Why is he struggling of shining? I am a shiner and that is normal for me. All people used to have this ability but it forced to put forgot what is sad,
Shitty movie
The old lady in the bathtub laughing still haunts me
I saw this as kid along with my younger sisters (5 and 10 yrs younger). Most people miss what the person interviewing Jack at the beginning said about the land! It was built on an old Indian Burial Ground! The hotel is haunted big time!
Nailed it with the labyrinth thing. The movie has so many different interpretations and ideas and symbols, it’s easy to get lost in it like Jack Torrance yourself.
“Clockwork Orange” is another Kubrick masterpiece. Also, “2001: A Space Odyssey” one of best film of all time. Kubrick also
I think with Kubrick he is always reaching for a more universal picture, a more universal meaning, and it usually involves a not too flattering portrait of humanity. It’s not so much about the more superficial aspects of the plot. That’s just the mask. I think the presence of the dark visions and even the opening of the door are just meant to symbolize the insane power of human evil, and how it infiltrates the relationship of this dysfunctional family. Thank you for being courageous and watching this great film. I recommend a film by Roman Polanski called The Tenant. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a similar mixture of tension with dark humor, perhaps not as horrific as this film, but certainly as disturbing, but with a slightly lighter film language. It’s great. If you haven’t seen Rosemary’s Baby or Repulsion, those are two others by Polanski that are worthwhile. And for even more pure horror, perhaps watch Cries and Whispers or Fanny and Alexander, by Ingmar Bergman. These are not specifically horror films, but they connect to some of the darkest experiences imaginable. The first watches as a sister is dying a slow and painful death while her two sisters and their servant have come to watch over her. The second has a much richer plot which I won’t even begin to describe, but it’s quite amazing, with moments of great celebration and warmth along with intense anger and even dark magick. It’s incredible!
Now watch Doctor Sleep the extended version.Both are great movies.If you watch Doctor Sleep it will explain some of The Shining.It is about Danny as an adult.
I watch many people reacting to many videos. It’s kind of my new obsession. I will have to say this is my FAVORITE reaction ever. Easily the most visceral. I was genuinely scared for you.
The greatest paranormal psychotropic film ever made. Jack nicolson's performance was beyond comprehension! Kubrick was a genius! This movie is off the charts!!
Brilliant reaction .. At last, someone who concentrates on the film, who doesn't talk to much, who doesn't insanely giggle at nothing, who doesn't endlessley wonder where they have see a particular actor before.. well done enjoyed that. Subscribed.
You say you can’t watch it again, but you will watch it again. And with every viewing you’ll pick up on something else. I just discovered your channel and think it’s wonderful 💯
"I will go completely insane if I watch it again"
Me, who has seen this about 8 times because it's my favorite horror movie: 👀
Would love to see more horror reactions from you!
The best reaction to this movie .....ever. Truly the most anxiety producing movie .....ever. I kept thinking you were going to shut it off, but you didn't, because you couldn't, because it had you!
Lol take it easy
The thing about Kubrick's filmography is that for the majority of his movies, trying to fully understand them is an exercise of futility. The most any of us can hope for is to interpret the various meanings of his films within the context of our own lives, and how they affect us as a viewer and as individuals. Its because of this that I regard Kubrick as the most personal filmmaker, not because of his emotion-filled stories, but because of the depth his pictures go into exploring the innermost regions of the human soul.
The scene with the woman in room 237 traumatized me back in the day. The whole movie did, really. I was 16 and saw the Shining at the drive-in with my mom and brother. It's the only movie that I have seen that made me feel numb from fear. I will never forget it.
Two giant wall pillars flanked by 3 paned window sections downstairs.
When Jack and Danny speak in the bedroom, behind them are 3 wall pillars flanking 2 windows with panes.
Kubrick ruled!
Many people have different interpretations of the ending to The Shining. What I took from it was that Jack had been absorbed into the evil Overlook Hotel. Trapped in a recurring form of hell, Jack was lured and tempted and finally possessed by the hotel, just as the twin girls and their father and the dead woman in Room 237 are "always there."
I had lunch once with Joe Turkel, who played Lloyd the creepy bartender, and I asked him, "You realize that you were the devil in the Gold Room scene, right? The last thing Jack says before you show up is that he'd sell his soul for a glass of beer...and then you're there."
Joe thought about it, laughed, and said, "That's a Kubrick film! Everyone can have their own interpretation of it!"
Its like The Haunting in that way. The house claims the people who resonate with it. Absorbs them
Turkel and Phillip Stone (Grady in the Shining) are the only two people who have appeared in 3 different Kubrick movies. What a pleasure it must have been to have met him. Stone passed away in 2003 but Joe is still with us.
What if he said
No sir,you are the devil,you’ve always been the devil
I should know
I’ve always been here
So enjoyable to see this movie via "new eyes" (and ears), because this is one of those cinematic horror experiences that I hold in very high esteem. Not much else makes me feel so unsettled and on edge than "The Shining" does. It's always frightening and disturbing, every time I watch it.
It's still astonishing to me that every interior for this film, every single room that we see before us, was built from scratch on a sound-stage in England. All those furnishings, windows, props, doors, etc ... were created or obtained for Kubrick's thriller. When I was younger I simply assumed that the film-makers had shot this movie inside an existing hotel. I eventually learned that the interiors were based on a certain lodge, The Ahwahnee Hotel, in Yosemite National Park, California; and the exteriors were filmed at The Timberline Lodge, Oregon.
A person can go down a very deep mental "rabbit hole" involving this movie; there are many fascinating and borderline crazy conspiracy theories and unofficial documentaries that some people have created about "The Shining"-- involving the number 42, or certain imagery in the hotel's decor, and so forth. Also, people point out the disorienting things, like that fact that Wendy and Danny are watching the movie "Summer of '42" on a television set without any electric cords visible. Viewers can get obsessed with all the minutiae, the small details, of the film. I think that the movie itself is enough of a "trip", without delving into all the theories.
This movie is so evil and definitely a horror masterpiece. Dope reaction bro.
Kubrick: best director! Greetings from Germany!
Great reaction. I like how you go in blind and try not to overthink it or figure it out. You just enjoy the ride and that's the best approach when watching great films like 'The Shining.' You're the kind of person who is perfect to watch this with in real life. I don't know about all you guys, but I miss the old days when you used to have a bunch of friends around to watch a movie blind and enjoy the excitement of it with friends, then talk about it afterwards. But the golden era of cinema has long passed and movies of this caliber are very rarely produced these days. These great films will always be and for years to come be the benchmark of what masterful acting, screenwriting, directing, cinematography and film music scores look like.
I so agree, don’t overthink the movie, trying to interpret every line for double meaning. Particularly on a Kubrick movie.
"This is the most intense scene from any movie..." I'll see if you stand by that if you ever react to The Exorcist... New sub👍
I saw this when it first came out in 1980! The BEST horror movie EVER!!!
This is one of my favorite movies of all time. Stanley Kubrick is such a genius film maker. I could watch this 100 times & never get bored of it.
You now MUST watch the sequel --- DOCTOR SLEEP --- It takes place 40 years after the events on The Shining. Also, THE EXORCIST is a master of psychological terror. As shocking today as it was when first released in 1973!
The Shining is my favourite movie of all time... But I think Doctor Sleep sucks. I was so excited when I heard about it but honestly, it's a shame it's even connected to The Shining in any way because it's so hokey and silly and just not even close to being on the same level story wise, direction wise, acting wise... across the board it's mediocre. Not even just compared to The Shining, but compared to anything. It's totally unnecessary to see Doctor Sleep. This is a critical comment, which I know can come across like I"m criticizing you but that's not my intention. ☮
Yes Doctor Sleep blows. Exposition is for simpletons.
@@SydLane if u compare dr sleep with shinning, yeh It's nothing. But dr sleep itself,individually a good movie. If u are aware about Stephen king's shinning universe, Dr sleep is quite Good.
The exorcist scarred me as a child. I have no idea why my mother let me watch that with her.
Stephen King hated the final cut of the movie as it was not what he had in mind and even prevented Kubrick from making any movies based on his books, as it suffered a lot of production problems:
Shelly Duvall lost most of her hair due to the number of takes she did for the scene with her swinging the bat at Jack Nicholson. 50 at least.
She even pretended she was swinging the bat at Kubrick.
Nicholson slept on the set between scenes.
Scatman Crothers, whom plays Halloran, broke down crying after Kubrick filmed his Scene 30-40 times, and asked, "What do you want from me, Mr Kubrick!?"
A fire broke out near the set of the movie, in one of the soundstages where they were filming The Empire Strikes Back.
Filming began in 1978, but wrapped up in January 1980, 4 months before it's theatrical release.
Shelley lost an awful lot of hairs when trying to squeeze out of the bathroom window several dozens of time.
You are correct, the image of Jack frozen in the maze is indeed an image you will never get out of your mind. I saw this when it came out, I was 15 years old, scared the hell out of me and that image is burned into my mind forever.
Jack Nicholson is also excellent in 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest'. He plays a petty crook who's sent to an asylum, I think it's set around the 50's/60's, so you can imagine the facility and staff aren't as correct as they would be nowadays. Jack's character is very high spirited, but basically a good guy. It's an incredibly deep and touching story
Cuckoo’s Nest is also good to see a young Danny DeVito
@@PhilipLuckey Good point. Also, you just reminded me that the guy who plays Grima Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings plays Billy in one flew over the cuckoo's nest. I was pretty surprised when I discovered that
@@Feral_Bog_Witch Brad Dourif is in a LOT of stuff and I always love seeing him
he's in one of the greatest TV shows ever: Deadwood
Cuckoos Nest is MUST-SEE masterpiece (one of the greatest movies ever), but also not somthing to 'react' to, but just watch in silence alone in the dark
Jack Nicholson is an incredible actor. It would be best if you watched the movie that he won an Oscar for called "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" from 1975 and another one that he won an Oscar for called "As Good As It Gets" from 1997.
Stephen king based his book from a real haunted Stanley hotel in colorado. He stayed there and experienced paranormal things himself. He made a remake mini series in 1997 which is more like the book then this version. He recently wrote a sequel called doctor sleep. The movie for doctor sleep came out in 2019. It is about Danny all grown up having to go back to the hotel to save a little girl that also has the shining.
I think Jack was a ghost there from back in the day and haunted Grady into killing his family. Now reincarnated Jack is there and ghost Grady has his chance to haunt Jack into killing his family. Turn about is fair play for ghosts.
If you read the book, you will understand everything. It explains so much more. Enjoyed this.
Everything? Not a mere 5% of it.
Kubrick used every trick in the book to make an unsettling experience for the viewer. Music chords are timed with actions, the layout of the hotel doesnt make sense, continuity errors done deliberately etc ..Great reaction :)
The level of detail in the movie is incredible. Every year something new comes to light. The 2nd door on the pantry. The red handprint on the woman that pushes Grady into Jack and spills his avocat or avocado. The missing chair in the lounge. The thing is Kubrick left these things so subtilely that it’s taken people 40 years to find them. In the old days when movies could only be seen at the cinema it’s no wonder people missed them. Every trick in the book is right, and he wrote the book.
There will N E V E R be a horror film that compares to this film.
Completely unique cinematic approach, particularly how Kubrick uses insert shots.
Kubrick was the master without equal. It blows me away that he put together a psychological thriller/horror so ahead of its time that was so effective and affecting and then...never did another in the genre. Congrats on your trial by fire, it was a great reaction.
He was absorbed or consumed into the hotel. The Overlook is always hungry.
Your comment that the movie is like the maze is a very insightful observation and definitely intended by Kubrick. It has to be watched more than once to begin to understand it and it will still have many questions. Great job and your reactions were priceless. Also one of the best “reaction videos” I’ve seen from the standpoint of editing. You put in the right amount without skipping too much. It’s definitely a masterpiece as you said and you’re so right. Peace brother.
Out of all the reaction channels, yours is the one that I think is closest to the actual experience of watching a movie with somebody. Its good stuff man 👍
I’ll watch anything George does. He’s so passionate and free with his emotions.
This movie came out when I was 16, a Junior in high school...it was epic. The following year, Stephen King who lives here in Maine was the keynote speaker at my high school graduation. It was a speech that left us speechless, but still remember to this day.
awesome!!!
Just came across this reaction and subscribed to your channel. Jack Nicholson was born to play this role. There is a theory about Jack Torrence, Jack the writer and Jack the character. In the bathroom scene with Jack Torrence and Delbert Grady, Jack said "You were the caretaker here Mr Grady, I recognized you." How could he have recognized him if he had never seen him before.
Another great movie with Jack Nicholson in worth checking out is 1974's Chinatown. It was nominated for 11 Oscars. It is a crime drama that's a throwback to the classic film noir movies of the 40's. Great reaction.
He recognized him from Ullman´s telling and maybe from a scrapbook with old newspaper articles lying beside his typewriter where he was perhaps looking for material to write a story from.
I feel your pain. I saw this movie for the first time, when I was about Danny's age. It scarred me, permanently. I had nightmares for 2 weeks afterwards. I'm still not sure why my parents thought it would be okay, for me to watch this movie, at that young age.
Haha i watched it as a 10 year old or so, and i had a fear of bath tubs and especially hotel bath tubs for like 2 years :D
I appreciate that you don't talk incessantly over your reaction videos.
The first time I watched this film I hated it and wondered why people thought it was so great. Years later I watched it again and I was terrified. It is a phenomenal (if not entirely unfaithful) version of King's novel and in my opinion, better than its source material!
Marvelous reaction, man! Kubrick went above and beyond here, and for some actors, specifically Shelley Duval, filming was insanely difficult. Like that scene where Wendy was trying to hit Jack with a bat, it was done more than 100 times so the tears and haggard expression on Duvall's face were legit.
Wow dude , this has to be the best Shining reaction I've ever seen. This movie is one of the great masterpieces of horror films in history. I'm glad that you've watched it. Hope you liked it.
I agree. This is the first one that wasn't someone acting like Danny, "I'm scared, the music!' every minute.
I agree, I think his reaction was the best I have seen so far. Unlike others, he chose to go in blind, knowing nothing about what he was getting into and being willing to not overthink what is going on. He literally let the fear wash over him. That takes balls with a film of this caliber first time watching.
16:03 notice the tv isn't plugged in:)There are a lot of little clues throughout the film.
The documentary "Room 237" and "The Wendy Theory" are both forensic break-downs of the many layers and theories about the film. In my estimation, watching those documentaries is as terrifying as the film itself.
Speaking of theories, and not wanting to sound too crazy or "theorist" lol, but I find it interesting that Eyes Wide Shut, is actually shining a light on what we know now about these bizarre groups of elites. Im just relieved he used women of age, and not children as these groups allegedly do. Makes me wonder seriously if he was part of the "problem" or a good guy, and perhaps why he died, he went too deep...? 🤔 did he know too much?
@@debbiedebster5806 + If you're considered an insider, " they don't care if you know "too much". It's really only considered "knowing too much", if you're an outsider. But inside or out, exposing the so called elite is dangerous, & could be deadly....
Room 237 was garbage. It launches 3 theories. That right there is a terrible foundation of the film because you know 2/3rds of the movie is BS. Turns out all of it was. Leon Vitale who knew Kubrick better then anyone said the movie was 100 percent nonsense and and seeing it I agree with him. I mean the moon landing theory is based on a sweater and the fact the moon is 237000 miles from the Earth? The moon isn’t 237000 miles from the Earth but we have to listen to a lecture for half an hour about an obviously debunked idea. I was tremendously disappointed with that documentary.
@@michaelsims1160 Yea....and there's a poster of a skier and the woman tries to link that to the hedge maze by saying it represented a minotaur....and somehow the skies are the horns.
Gah that 'documentary' was horrendous.
Hey George! You continue to make some of the best reactions videos online! No stupid jokes, no interpreting the movie for us dummies out here, and no squishing or stretching. Just excellent. Love watching you wince and shake your head, because I know just how crazy frustrating this movie is. You're the best, George!!!
I totally agree... a joy to watch compared to some others who insist of talking and long pausing all the way through it.lol...
You should do "A Clockwork Orange".
Having had the crap scared out of me as a kid when I saw this, I have to say it was entertaining to watch your ever-increasing sense of dread creep up on you! It's definitely one of the most unnerving movies of all time!
After watching with you on Patreon, I was a little skeptical that you would be able to edit this for you tube.😄 I think you will find almost all of Kubrick's films are exercises in testicular fortitude and all of them are pure genius.
Great film..... you never have to watch it again!
It will live in your subconscious for the rest of your life and haunt your dreams!!!
I got an ad to stay at the timberline lodge during this.
Stanley Kubrick is a GENIUS... There are great directors and then there is Stanley Kubrick. An absolute perfectionist and the pinnacle of brilliance.
Agree.
The music in The Shining is almost identical to Alien and Aliens... The long drawn out brass sound in the bathtub scene in room 237 is nearly the same as the opening credits of Aliens, and when Danny first discovers room 237 the music that plays sounds just like the score in Alien when Dallas is in the airducts. All 3 movies are some of my favorites!
While I concede the similarities in the soundtracks, a little clarification's in order.
The music in The Shining was composed by Wendy Carlos, who also wrote for Tron and A Clockwork Orange.
Jerry Goldsmith composed the score for ALIEN. The music when Dallas was in the airshaft was swiped from Goldsmith's prior film, Freud.
James Horner composed the score for ALIENS. He was a last-minute change, and had only a few weeks to work. So he reused several moments of Goldsmith's score, and plagiarized himself. One can hear bits of his prior work from Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Ironically, he won an Oscar.
The similarities mainly follow from the use of pre-existing atonal compositions.
For The Shining: "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta" by Béla Bartók
For ALIEN: Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic")
For ALIENS: Aram Khachaturian's Gayane ballet suite
The opening sounds like the last movement of Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz.
Correct, @@geraldmcboingboing7401 , which is itself a parody of the Dies Irae.
@@commandosolo1266 Your right that the score for the Shining has nothing to do with Aliens. However the Bartok and Khachaturian ballet are not atonal. People seem to think that most of the soundtrack was written by Carlos (It used to be Walter Carlos by the way). Most of the score was written long before by 20th century neoclassicist composers. I think Bartok wrote Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta in the 1930’s. The only Carlos compositions were the synthesizer tracks when Torrance was driving up in the car and the heart beat track. Kubrick tended to prefer using real composers rather than film score ones saying “why use a second rate copy when I can use the original. The original composers are much better.”
Hi, @@michaelsims1160 . I'm speaking far outside my expertise when I classify these fine pieces. But they are all of early 20th century origin, are they not? (Bartok: '36, Hanson: '30, Khachaturian: '39.) So certainly the composers were aware of Schoenberg and Stravinsky, and I feel the sound of their influence is unmistakable. Please do clarify finer points I may have missed, though.
"It used to be Walter."
Indeed, but I've been informed "deadnaming" people is disrespectful, so....
Best "The Shining" Reaction ever! Your editing is consistently TOP NOTCH. Thank you ❤
Truly excellent reaction to a complex cinematic masterpiece.
Although I don't often subscribe to his themes, I do recognize Kubrick as a great filmmaker, and "The Shining" (TS) is certainly a masterpiece of cinema. I like it very much even though I'm not a fan of Stephen King or his books. This must be due solely to Kubrick. Well, let's also give credit to the actors and the production crew, too. As great as Nicholson and Duvall were in the film, that little boy, Danny Lloyd, really made the movie for me. I think he was five when he started filming TS. For a child that age, he was just outstanding. He himself came up with the finger puppet for Tony, his alter ego. Kudos, also, to Philip Stone and Joe Turkel for being quietly sinister and menacing. I don't want to forget good-guy Scatman Crothers, either. Well-done Scatman. Then there's the Overlook. Not only is it alive, but it is the personification of evil.
TS has all the Kubrick touches. All those long hallway and hedge maze shots are one-point-perspective. That's a Kubrick trademark. Also, don't some of those nighttime hedge maze shots remind you of HAL's "eye" in 2001 a bit? They do me. Another characteristic of Kubrick is his focus on intense person-to-person interactions. Yeah, TS has just a little bit of that. By the way, isn't it weird HAL in 2001 acts like a person, and the people act like computers/robots? Those long tracking-shots as people move about the hotel are another Kubrick trait. The musical score as an integral part of the narrative of TS is also textbook Kubrick. Kubrick was a perfectionist, and that is reflected in his films. For example, background is as significant as foreground. Why does Jack's typewriter change color? Is it because Jack has been transformed? Oh, "All work and no play" goes back to at least 1659. It didn't originate with TS although it certainly fits. Why do bits of the hotel, like the furniture, for example, appear, disappear or move about? Is it because the hotel is alive? The answer is yes by the way. It's definitely not due to continuity problems. Finally, Kubrick always forces the viewer to think about and dissect his films. That certainly happens in TS. As a result, we and Kubrick share in a common creative impulse when watching TS. The film becomes a living thing.
Here are a few of the other things I've noticed about TS. The film is replete with mirrors. They're everywhere. Watch how they affect Jack. Are they how the hotel projects its power? A portal of sorts? Do they also absorb power? Are they its eyes as well? Likewise, there are mazes everywhere. There's the obvious hedge maze, but the hotel itself is a maze, and so is the hallway carpet. Early on, Wendy remarks on the need for breadcrumbs, a reference to Hansel and Gretel and the maze-like quality of the hotel. TS may be something of a variation of Theseus and the Minotaur with Danny as Theseus, Tony as Ariadne etc. Wendy also says the hotel is like a ghostship. The hotel feeds off Danny and Jack's shining power and gets more powerful as time passes. The hotel wants Danny dead so it can absorb him and his power. Did you notice all the knives pointed at Danny's head when he and Hallorann were talking in the kitchen. Numbers seem to come up a lot in the film. For example, Danny wears a shirt with 42 on the sleeve, the tv with no power cord is showing "Summer of 42," and room 237 is 2x3x7=42. I think Kubrick's wife said "Summer of 42" was one of his favourite movies along with "The Bank Dick." The latter is a great movie with W. C. Fields. When Jack returns to the ballroom where the 1920s party is going on, a woman walks by him with a bloody handprint on her backside. This is about the time the advocaat is spilled on him. Jack also wipes some advocaat on Grady's back. In the bathroom scene, it's clear Grady's girls also had "the shine" and wanted to destroy the hotel, but they were killed instead and absorbed. Grady himself, probably like Jack, also had "the shine." When Jack and Wendy are being shown their apartment, Jack eyes the two departing young ladies. A sign of his lechery? Ditto the girlie magazine he's reading in the lobby early on. He definitely has a wondering eye. Even early on, he doesn't seem to hold Wendy in high regard. When Jack enters room 237, the carpet there is obviously suggestive of the sex act. Very phallic etc. Sex, in one way or other, features in many Kubrick films. Room 237 is the heart of the hotel. The nude woman represents the hotel seducing Jack. The heartbeat we hear is the hotel's and signals the hotel's malevolent activity and increasing power. We hear it overtly late in the film but also weakly when Danny is riding the trike on/off the carpet and when Jack is bouncing the tennis-ball. The high-pitched tone indicates "shining" is happening. So, Jack clearly shines, too. He's one of those who doesn't realize he has it. Jack several times in the film exhibits the Kubrick glare or stare, a shot of a man glowering up at the camera from beneath lowered brows, an indicator of danger or madness. You see it in "Full Metal Jacket." And I think HAL in 2001 also shows it. Doesn't HAL's red pupil change size? When Jack goes on his rant about his obligations to the hotel before Wendy conks him, he's not talking about Ullmann and co. He's talking about "the hotel," the thing that's alive. That's who he's made the contract and sold his soul to. Remember Lloyd the bartender's ominous hotel remarks. REDRUM is MURDER backwards, and it signifies anti-murder. It's a totem that protects against murder. That's why Danny writes it on the bathroom door. Jack can batter the door, but he won't get in. Danny is also warning Wendy and arming her with his REDRUM recital. The photos are part of the hotel like the typewriter and furniture. When Jack dies, he's absorbed by the hotel and winds up in the 1920s photo. Towards the end, the hotel's evil spirit, the caretaker, may have abandoned Jack to die in the maze. He did fail in his task. That ball in the photo was the same one where the advocaat was spilled. So he was there in 1921 and he wasn't. Kubrick deleted a final scene from TS. Wendy was in hospital and Ullman was visiting. He told her all was normal (except for Hallorann, I suppose) at the hotel. No Jack. At least, I think that's what I read once. Might be wrong about that.
I've watched several reactions to TS, and I'm amazed at some of the observations. A lot of people don't make a connection between Danny's first vision of the blood elevator, which signifies all the death at the hotel, and his passing out. They disassociate these two events when clearly they go together as the image of Danny's horrified face shows. From the get-go, it's clear Danny can see past events and future events. He knows Jack got the job and is going to call Wendy. He knows he doesn't want them to go to the hotel. He knows the hotel signifies danger. Why don't people notice that Danny's shirt and jumper are torn when he come to the Colorado Lounge after being strangled? Danny's clearly in shock, too. When Danny is foaming at the mouth and Hallorann is having his mini-fit, Danny is clearly communicating with Hallorann there is danger, come and help. How can Wendy be so sound asleep before Danny wakes her? Come on, the poor woman has been on edge for weeks. She hasn't been sleeping well. Now that she's locked crazy Jack up, she literally passes out, thinking they're safe. After Danny slides down from the bathroom window, why are people surprised he comes back into the hotel? It's freakin' cold outside. Do you live at the equator or something? After Jack kills Hallorann and Danny screams, why are people surprised when Danny bolts his hiding place? It's not a hiding place anymore, Jack knows where he is. Anyway, the hotel will lead him to Danny. Danny runs outside because he's actually luring Jack into the maze to meet his fate.
Danny is the hero of TS, he's Theseus, who has killed the monster in the maze.
Thank you for the genuine reaction. This is a genius movie. This is something else. One of the greatest movies ever made.
I loved your reaction to this movie. It was so genuine.If its any comfort I can tell you that in, the book by Stephen King, the nice shef survives and helps Danny and Wendy escape. He becomes an important person in Dannys life and help him come to terms with what happend in the hotel. He shows Danny how to cope with his "shining" ability. 🙂
This was based on a real haunted hotel, the Stanley Hotel, in Estes Park Colorado. My husband and I stayed there years ago. Nothing happened overnight but we went on a tour and some strange things happened on the tour. Stephen King, who wrote the Shining, stayed there and things happened in his room so he wrote the book. Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall were great in this. Jack really portrayed a guy going insane. Little Danny was great too. The hotel in the movie is not the Stanley Hotel. The Stanley is in the mountains but not nearly as remote as the one in the movie. Just such a freaky movie and well done.
8:32, Danny read his thoughts! 😱
The opening soundtrack is a synthesizer arrangement of the Gregorian chant, Dies Irae (Day of Wrath). The composer is Wendy Carlos, who used to be Walter Carlos; he did the soundtrack of A Clockwork Orange, another great Kubrick film.
Great reaction! I appreciate you don't overtalk...and your level of seriousness is appropriate. The Shining is the best horror ever made. You mentioned it didnt feel like acting. I read that Kubrick tormented Duval and that her frazzled performance is based on that. Watch Apartment 237 to understand the level of discombobulation (ie set architecture). And the amazing hidden meaning throughout. Mindblowing!
Kubrick shouted out to King when you see the crushed red VW bug. The Torrence's bug in the movie is yellow but red in the book. Showing it crushed is like a slap in the face to say this is my film, my interpretation. King never liked his film. He felt it grossly downplayed the alcoholism theme which was personal to his life experiences.
Recommend Exorcist, Conjuring, It Follows, Signs, Insidious, Blair Witch Project, Scream, Hereditary, Halloween, American Psycho, Cloverfield & 10 Cloverfield Lane.😊
You should also watch the sequel, "Dr. Sleep". A great movie.
Great reaction! Two horror movies that I would recommend checking it is Midsommar and Hereditary.
Concerning the ending, it's open for interpretation, and it's not an element that's in the Stephen King novel. In the book, the Overlook hotel is trying to kill Danny because of how powerful he is with the Shining. By killing him, the hotel will basically "absorb" his Shining into itself, and become even more powerful. I interpret the ending picture as an indication that the hotel has basically "absorbed" Jack with his death, so now his spirit or ghost is part of the Shining of the Overlook hotel.
It's a ghost story; it was meant to be ambiguous and tense rather than modern horror. (Think "Turn of the Screw") Both Jack Nicholson and Shelly Duvall were brilliant. (Duvall was originally panned in the roll, but since, appreciation of her performance has greatly increased.)
This is in my top 5 (maybe top 3) horror films ever. Kubrick used a variety of devices that are extremely prevalent in this film. The use of mirrors/reflective surfaces, very bold color and lighting, unusual scene composition, and of course the psychological abuse of the actors. The staircase scene was shot 127 times, by the end of which Shelley Duvall was legitimately an emotional wreck. Then there was the music and sound design which was spectacularly unsettling. Basically, this film is a horror masterpiece.
"Disturbing" is the perfect word...
Bro, I feel what you're saying. This movie is special. Madness incarnate.
I’ve seen every Shining reaction on UA-cam and gotta say yours was the best.
3:48 "what is that?"
Foreshadowing. 😂
I can’t tell you how much I enjoy your reactions! You really give yourself to the movie and then you talk about it AFTERWARDS, I like that so much!
Please don’t ever become like all the other ADD-UA-camrs who babble throughout the entire film.
Jack was taken by the ghosts of the hotel.. they are outside time-space, he went into the past of the hotel, partying ... hes part of the hotel now, like Grady, timeless.. see the Director's cut of Doctor Sleep . Its about Danny as an Adult and how he resolves the problem of the Overlook Hotel.
Just wanted to say, I love your edits! You add more content, and it feels like I am having the viewing experience for the first time again. Really enjoying your channel!
1. Joe Turkel/Lloyd plays Tyrell in the original Blade Runner (Hint Hint)
2. "Here's Johnny" was adlib by Nickelson.
3. It took 117 takes for Jack to chop through the door. He used his voluntary firefighting skills to get through all the takes.
4. The reason King didn't like this adaptation of the movie is because he didn't like the changes Kubrick made. This thing was remade
just for King and although the remake was more in line with the book IMVHO it wasn't as good as this one.
5. They would have made tons of money keeping it open through the winter ski resort. More than enough top keep the roads open.
6. Shelly Duvall said making this movie was the worst experience in her life. She was harassed on and off screen.
7. GOOF: They would have taken that meat out of the freezer during winter over. Even frozen it would go past expiration date.
8. The real villain is the hotel itself.
7. Watch Dr. Sleep. Danny is an adult and many of the loose ends will be cleared up.
I'm commenting before watching, but just wanted to say that your pick for reactions are ELITE movies. Always. Plus, you're very fun to watch because you always have very interesting things to say and everyone can tell how excited you get for new stuff. Keep it up! You deserve thousands and thousands of subscribers!
There is SO MUCH to get into with this film... so many layers, so many theories, so much background info, there's a documentary called Room 237, and a documentary about the making of the shining which was shot by Kubrik's daughter... My favourite theory is The Wendy Theory. You can take a VERY deep dive on this film if you want to.
Saw room 237 last night.
The Wendy Theory is so interesting and very spot on.
"A Clockwork Orange" is like that too. It takes several viewings to even begin to grasp it. I saw some movie critic who said it was about how good it feels to be bad, but that is a WAY too simplistic interpretation of that masterpiece. I didn't really figure it out until I drew a clue from how he portrayed the military commanders in his World War I movie "Paths of Glory". Kubrick was the ultimate master of making the viewer think.
@@liesavillandre3481 Ikr?? There are just SO many "continuity errors" in this film and we know that Kubrik was absolutely meticulous, obsessively so, these can't be "mistakes", some of them are just so ridiculous even the most mediocre director would have caught them. Everything in this movie is intentional. lol Since I saw the Wendy Theory I can't see the movie any other way, it just feels so instinctively true.
@@vytallicaq.6881 It's no surprise he was great at playing chess. His thought process is so intricate, so meticulous, he's 50 steps ahead of every revelation you make while watching his films, and every piece you think you're about to grasp is merely a door to other levels you didn't even know were there. Just like there are more possible variations of chess games than there are atoms in the observable universe, one could spend a lifetime dissecting and analyzing his movies.
You're correct about Jack reincarnating into another lifetime to repeat the same murder/horror he had already committed in a past life. The hotel was originally built on an Indian burial ground so that cursed the hotel right from the start and the house itself draws evil towards it and it eventually builds up a lot of murders and other inhuman things that went in that hotel from it's past.
The picture at the end implies that Jack was re incarnated at the end. Remember the scene at the start when Wendy gives Jack breakfast in bed and he confesses that he was feeling deja vous around every corner. Remember when Grady told Jack “ you’ve always been the caretaker. I should know. I’ve always been here.” He really had had been there before. People think Jack goes Crazy in this movie. He really doesn’t. He’s DESTINED or possessed to kill his family through some strange twist of fate from the first scene. That makes it even more traumatizing. What is more scary than knowing something awful is going to happen and nothing can change that? There’s a huge amount of things in this movie that are interesting. Kubrick did a real head trip. There’s a reason he’s known as a great director.
PS Kubrick forces his actors to give great performances. The axe scene where Jack kills Halloran was shot 80 times. Kubrick didn’t just want the perfect shot. He wanted to exhaust them to give them the appearance of dishevelment and realism fitting the movie. He got it and the perfect shot.
In case you didn’t catch it, both of his parents have the shining ability too. You should check out the movie “Dr. Sleep”, it is the sequel to The Shining, when the little boy grows up. It wasn’t directed by Stanley Kubrick, but it’s still a great film. Stephen King wrote the books the films were based on. Great reaction! 👍
….if you ever want to see a really funny movie, you should check out “Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil”
Yeah. That’s not true. Danny has the Shining. Jack has a little. And Wendy doesn’t shine at all. Jack needs mirrors to have visions. Every scene where he sees something there’s a mirror present. The red and green bathrooms. The mirrors behind the bottles in the bar. The reason that Wendy sees things at the end is because the Overlook at that point is going full tilt projecting images that even normal people can see.
@@michaelsims1160 True. There is a big genetic component to the "Shine," in King's novels. Danny inherited his abilities from his father alone, and "Tony," is actually the way the "Shine," communicates with him, it's not an imaginary friend per se.
I stayed in the hotel that inspired Steven King to write this. The funny thing is that I didn't even know it until the guy carrying my luggage and I were in the long, wide creepy hallway. I jokingly said "I feel like I'm in the movie, the Shining". That is when the guy told me. I was so scared sleeping there. Lol
This is one of the best reactions I’ve seen so far to this movie. Glad you made it through.
Fun fact, The Shining was filmed atThe Stanley Hotel in Colorado and you can go and stay in room 237 ( room 217 in the book and at the hotel). I believe there's a documentary about the room somewhere, if you can find it!
Kubrick´s Shining was NOT filmed at the Stanley in Colorado. The mini-series was filmed there but is by far as good as Kubrick´s. The outside was Timberline Lodge in Oregon, the inside has been filmed on a set in London, England, inspired by the Ahwanee Hotel at Yosemite NP. Got it?
I suppose everyone has an image from this movie that sticks in their mind. For me, it's Jack limping across the snowy ground in the moonlight with an axe in his hands, hunting his son.😳
After 37 takes of jack axing through the bathroom door, Shelly had traumatic nightmares and difficulty sleepy requiring prolonged mental counciling. 🎬
You have a hotel built on an indian burial ground, you have a hotel with a history of tragic events, you have ghosts, spirits, possession and the hotel itself is possessed. Now add premonitions clairvoyance and the Shining with a possible reincarnation 🤔
in this film there are many elements that add suspense
the almost silent ambient background tone
the sound of jack’s typewriter
the sound of danny’s little bike going from carpet to hardwood
the carpet pattern the almost impossible route that danny takes as he rides around in the corridors
the top down view of the hedge maze the aerial shots of the hotel
Some say, the route Danny is driving in the hallways matches the turns he´s doing in the maze when being chased by Jack in the end of the film. Haven´t looked it up yet, but with Kubrick, everything is possible.
@@hossibaer9194 that’s interesting… i might have to rewatch the film and make notes on that… thet also say the route he’s riding is seemingly impossible without crossing his own path at times
The director tormented Shelley Duvall · Wendy Torrance throughout the movie. Berating her always. He did it to make her scenes more convincing. Jack makes looking crazy easy. He always has. In the movie Jack became part of the hotel like all that died there before. That's why he's in the pic.
Great reaction George! The Devils Advocate (Al Pacino) and Fallen (Denzel Washington) aren't necessarily horror movies but supernatural thrillers well worth watching. Cheers
Yes!!! ✌
The Devil's Advocate is excellent and perhaps Al Pacino's best performance
Fallen is mleh
Great reaction! You expressed how I first felt when I saw it. It makes you feel crazy, and there are no answers to your questions. The music is by a Polish composer named Krystov Penderecki. Shelly Duval had a breakdown after the movie because she had to live in such a state of terror for so long.
Sadly, the actress who played Wendy wasn’t ok when this was done. Her mental health deteriorated and while it wasn’t only due to the shining, the terrible treatment of her by Kubrick was notorious. It led to a lot of talk about what’s forgivable for the sake of genius. A lot of people feel the amazing art forgives the methods it took to get it.
What a load of shit.
@CLester Another clown.
Yeah, he abused her mentally to make her performance better.
then again a lot of people in the entertainment industry like to mythologize the "hardships" or unusual dangers they faced in making a movie. I don't necessarily take anybody at their word about how Kubrick treated people.
@@3DJapan Hahahahahahaha nice buzz words.
You should watch "Doctor Sleep" (extended version). It´s a great way to continue with the story.
“I say we take off, and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
Wrong movie, but still applicable…
I think the hotel where Stephen King wrote this (which this story is based on) is actually haunted. A number of ghost hunters have been there. It's called the Stanley Hotel.