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This was insane. The acting was STRONG! Any Easter Eggs we missed on this iconic film? Also what do you think about it? If you checked this out in theaters please let us know !
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Oh there is a huge deep dive into background Easter eggs. One is that the layout of the building itself doesn't make sense. One instance is in the bosses office in the beginning that window shouldn't be there. There are hundreds of videos that can explain it better than I can but this movie is a trip 😂
yea there is a whole documentary on it, because Kubrick was pretty intense and a perfectionist, so there is a lot of deliberate stuff in every detail, down to the patterns on the carpets and Kubrick would sometimes shoot dozens and dozens of takes for a single shot during the filming, even if it was just to get the ball rolling the perfect way for the camera to follow, or to torment the lead actress and literally put her under duress. This movie is notoriously different from the book, but the level of attention that the director gave it made it into it's own thing that lives and breathes (imo)
The use of color was a really big deal... and the way this gets into your "psyche" I was 10 years old and I watched this on HBO with my mom and dad....
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Psycho 1960 original.. that's also a psychological deep-thinking movie in the same genre of The Shining
@alonzocoyethea6148 oh wow i like how you put that. it makes a lot of sense!
Jack Nicholson's eyebrows add so much intensity to his facial expressions.
100% agree lol they really do
The fact this guy only knows Jack Nicholson as “that dude from the Lakers games” is hilarious to me, maybe I’m just old as fuck
omggggg no you’re not old lol we are just uncultured lol
Jack Nicholson is known for playing a creepy, weird, strange kinda person. He was in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Crazy movie. He was in "As Good As It Gets" as a major OCD weird guy. LOL.
lol he does a great job at it !
Unfortunately, one of the reasons Jack Nicholson was so convincing as crazed and corrupt characters like The Joker, Jack Torrance and Frank Costello was because he was kinda an abusive dick in real life known to insult female costars on set and sexually harrass them off set, smoke in front of costars, make racist, ableistic, homophobic and misogynistic remarks towards costars in interviews and enable abusive behavior on the part of the directors and producers, particularly directed at female costars.
The stair scene was reshot 137 times, with Kubrick and the other crew shouting obscenities at Shelley Duvall as Jack was doing in the scene, to get the right reaction out of her. Kubrick was a great director but that doesn`t mean he was the nicest guy. Like William Friedkin, Michael Bay and Fritz Lang, he could be downright "dictatorial" at times especially to women. Kubrick was extremely sexually repressed and conservative for his day. That likely played a big role in how paranoid he was , ironically he inspired many conspiracy theories of his own.
Hallorann warned Danny to stay out of 237. In the novel he went in the room and confronted the ghost of Mrs. Massey. A lot of backstories got ignored allowing the viewer to create their own hypothesis.
Jack was not hired as a repair man, he was hired as a caretaker (a caretaker does not have to be a repairman) to watch the place. Turn the lights on and off, heat on and off etc., probably water on and off on a daily basis. Make sure everything is working and report anything that goes wrong. This way the place is already operational when the season starts.
“Heeerrree’s Johnny” is was what Johnny Carson’s sidekick Ed McMahon on The Tonight Show said at the beginning of ever show after he listed the guests on that night’s episode. After Carson (1962-1992) was the host of the Tonight Show, it was Jay Leno (1992-2009, 2010-2014), then Conan O’Brien (2009-2010), and now Jimmy Fallon (2014-present).
We were honestly like, who is Johnny? lol
Def a 70/80's pop culture reference.@@TheOctobersReact
Jack Nicholson ad-libbed that line and a lot of other ones.
A couple of trivia tidbits.
1. The child actor who played Danny came up with idea of using his finger to talk as Tony all by himself during his audition.
2. Toy Story pays homage to The Shining by using the same carpet pattern in Syd's house as the one in the Stanley Hotel.
wow gotta look out for those !
@@TheOctobersReactAnother fun fact: Jack Nicholson was a volunteer firefighter. So the scene where Jack is hacking through the door with an axe became a problem, as due to his experience, he was completely obliterating the prop doors with just a couple of swings. Kubrick had to have two solid oak doors constructed for the scene to draw out the suspense and so it took him a bit longer to get into the room.
In the book, Jack was a more sympathetic character. He wasn't nuts from the start. He did have a severe anger problem and alcoholism that cost him his job and almost his marriage. The Hotel exploited that to turn him insane.
“And they’re British”! Funny AF! 😂
I agree with All of you! Jack and Shelly were so great in this movie! So was Danny Lloyd...the little boy. They were so talented and beautiful. What a classic horror movie!
Yes! The Scatman’s wall art is amazing. I’d 100% buy some if I could find it somewhere.
No one could have played that role better than Jack Nicholson. He knocked it out of the park.
The sequel, Doctor Sleep, answers a lot of questions about this movie. Things that were inferred but never actually said. Another great movie.
personally it isnt worth it at all its okay as a film but as a sequel it might be the worst sequel I've seen EVER like genuinely as the same level of bad as something like American psycho 2
I agree... It was a true sequel and a proper end to the story.
Dr. Sleep and Kubrick's The Shining are not the same universe. Unfortunately Dr. Sleep was an attempt to appease Stephen King who hates Kubrick's version and ruin the intentional ambiguity of Kubrick's version with NPC exposition. Don't think Dr. Sleep is even getting close.to.what Kubrick is implying in this film. Not the same thing at all.
@@thezappa7373 exactly
@@sometimesiwiBRO, SHUT UP FAKE FAN!
The mother in this movie is the lady that played Olive Oyl in Popeye
"What in the world? What were they doing on the bed?" LOL
When Jack said he'd sell his soul for a glass of beer, you said he shouldn't say that because the Devil might pop up. That's exactly what happened
This was a fun reaction. Jack Nicholson is a favorite actor of mine. You guys are great! 🙂
thank you so much and yeah he’s pretty incredible
So yeah basically, if You die within the hotel, you become part of the collective of ghosts which are frozen (no pun intended) in time in the 1920's. But yeah there's a documentary called "Room 237" that gives some interesting (if not completely plausible) theories into the symbolism of The Shining. Awesome reaction from two also 😎🤓👍
I like your review, you don't talk through the whole movie plus you don't blur the picture out. Thank you.
thank you 😊 we appreciate that!
1. Joe Turkel/Lloyd plays Tyrell in the original "Bladerunner" 😇
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 at this one.
5. Two of the changes he didn't like were Jack's decent into madness was too rapid, and Wendy wasn't such a patsy in the book.
6. Shelley Duval said making this film was the worst thing she ever experienced in her life. She was abused on and off camera".
7. Jack Nicholson and Scatman worked together in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest".
8. The real villain here is the hotel itself.
9. Watch Dr. Sleep. Danny is an adult and many of the loose ends will be cleared up.
Nicholson is AMAZING! If you want to see another side of him watch *As Good As It Gets,* the title does not lie. He and *Helen Hunt* won *Oscars* for their lead roles, *Greg Kinnear* was nominated as supporting actor, *Cuba Gooding Jr.,* another Oscar winner, is also in the cast and the movie itself was nominated for Best Picture. Can’t go wrong.
One of his worst movies, jesus christ, get some taste. (and don't hide behind the Oscars when I'm SURE you're the first to complain about them. Love Nicholson, love that he has three Oscars, I love the speech he made that year, but Duvall was the one who should have gotten the Oscar that year, not Jack) HIlarious that of all the many Jack Nicholson classics, THAT'S the one you pick.
@@TTM9691 You don’t have to agree, I couldn’t care less, and I’m not hiding behind the Oscars, they suck NOW but they didn’t use to, perhaps it’s time you went back to bed and maybe take your meds too, tantrum child.
@@TTM9691shut up, As Good as it Gets was a great movie! Though it hasn’t aged well, it’s a pretty forgotten movie. But it was good for it’s time in 97
@@nsasupporter7557 It was shitty in '97, and yeah, it hasn't aged well (we knew that back in '97, anyone with a brain). What hotbed of mediocrity suburb do you hail from? if you think THAT is what living in Manhattan is like, please allow me to laugh you off the face of the internet. It's all Hollywood players (cast, director) making a movie about NYC for dummies from the suburbs, this is an (embarrassing) suburban fantasy of what living in NYC is like, it's so cringe. AND YOU YOURSELF SAY: IT HASN'T AGED WELL. SO WHY WATCH IT??????!!!!!! PS: "Shut up"? What are you 13 years old? Grow up, and get some taste. And stop telling reactors to watch movies that "haven't aged well", when there are COUNTLESS Nicholson movies that have. Imbecile.
I like how Danny doubled back a bit before covering his footprints so that Jack would be led further away from him in the maze, that was a smart move.
Another thing about that scene at 23:37 with the twins, the hotel was giving Danny access to areas that were sealed off and closed for everyone else, but gave Danny access because of the shining he had
More trivia... Barry Nelson, who played Mr Ullman, was the 1st actor to portray James Bond, in the "Casino Royale" episode of "Climax", a television anthology series, in 1954... eight years before Sean Connery made his name in the role
The shining one of my favorite horror films 🎉🎉 Jack Nicholson did a great job
he sure did. scary good job!
I've seen a number of these shining reactions and it always amazes me that so many people make a fuss about them leaving Danny with Mr. Haloran. He's the head chef of a fancy hotel; not some hooligan who just wandered in off the street, for God's sake. What's he going to do? Do you actually think he would risk all that by doing something 'bad'? ... when he can't even run away if he wanted to? Where's he going to go? Sorry, but this has become a sore point for me.
i think bc i got the vibe he was something evil in the house bc he knew his nickname telepathically.
Yeah you must not have kids lol I don't trust anyone with mine... Fuck that.
Consider the source.
@glennkonklin2926 I hear you, man. It seems as if the younger generation's minds automatically go there, and not just in _THIS_ movie. The scene in "An American Werewolf in London" , where David wakes up naked in the zoo, that scene where he tries to coax the kid closer to the bush, so he can steal his balloons, is a perfect example. When we watched this movie back in the 80s, it was just funny. Younger people doing reactions now. inevitably make comments about a naked man approaching a little boy in sexual terms. Nothing could've been further from our minds when _WE_ first saw it. It's like they're being brainwashed to think of _EVERYTHING_ in sexual terms, even when it has nothing to do with it.
@@taylortyler1867 it wasn't our intention for it to be ANYTHING sexual. We have 2 kids and never in a million years would we leave them with someone we do not know regardless of how nice or prestigious they are, maybe we're over protective or maybe we just don't want to put my trust in someone to watch our kids.
At 20:20 I had to laugh. How you started one-uping each other about room 237. "I wouldn't even go by it...", "I wouldnt even look at it.!", "I'd stay away from that side of the hotel!"
I thought for sure it was going to escalate from, "I wouldn't stay in the hotel at all." to "I'd build an igloo outside!"
Lmao! Great reaction you two!
😂😂 we can be competitive sometimes
Strange that a psychic can see all the way from Florida to Colorado, yet can't sense danger only 12 inches away.
Or win lotto.
I got the impression he was being contacted by Danny. He didn't just sense it, he was receiving a message.
It underscores how evil the hotel was because it seemed able to undo psychic power and helped the dad pinpoint where Halloran was. it also unlocked the pantry door and room 237
So the actress who plays the mom is Shelly Duvall.
I found it very amusing that you said she looked like a Tim Burton character to you.
Shelly Duvall is actually the first actress Tim Burton ever worked with.
She was a great supporter Tim Burton early in his career as an animator.
She really believed in him as an artist.
Tim Burton was working as animator for Disney at the time.
He made a stop motion/claymation 5 minute short film narrated by legendary horror icon Vincent Price.
The short animated film is titled “Vincent”
A few years later Burton would make his first live action short film.
“Frankenweenie”
Basically the story of Frankenstein but with a little boy whose dog dies tragically.
The boy brings his dog back to life via Frankenstein like experiments.
And Shelly Duvall paleyd the mom in this short film.
And understand, at this point, Tim Burton was a nobody.
Completely unknown anonymous animator just venturing out with his personal projects.
And Duvall was a known actress who worked with big directors, like Kubrick.
Shelly Duvall really believed in Burton and even hired him a couple years later to direct an episode of a fairy tale anthology TV show she had at the time.
The short film “Frankenweenie” starring Shelly Duvall elevated the film’s reach and prestige.
It came to the attention of a comedian named Paul Reubens AKA Pee Wee Herman.
Reubens/Pee Wee was so impressed with this short film that he wanted Burton to direct his first movie for his famous character,
Pee Wee Herman
“Pee Wee’s Big Adventure”
That was Tim Burton’s first feature film.
And the rest is history.
The short films
“Vincent” and “Frankenweenie” are both available here on CZcams.
You might consider recording a reaction to them.
But really I think you psychically intuited Shelly Duvall’s connection to Tim Burton.
Because it is a peculiar thing to say LOL
wow that is so crazy. maybe he tried to make sally or coralline kinda favor her? she does have the vibe not saying anything bad about her but that’s pretty cool!
@@TheOctobersReact The way she moved around listlessly with the knife, she was moving like a puppet or marionette. Her physical movements were very Sally like.
As his first leading lady, perhaps she did leave an subconscious impression on Burton that would influence his future female characters.
@@TheOctobersReact Burton had nothing to do with "Coraline" aside from a slight stylistic influence on the film and Henry Selick directing both "Coraline" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas" which was based on concept art and a book Burton was planning to write but he decided to just make it a film(Or rather have Selick, Chris Sarandon and Danny Elfman make it a film for him) instead as that`s what he knew best. "Coraline" was based on a book by Neil Gaiman(The comic book writer of "The Sandman", "Good Omens"(Both of the latter with fellow English socialist Terry Pratchett) and "American Gods". The book was even darker and more nihilistic than the film adaptation.
@@aspieanarchist5439 Henry Selick was hired on Nightmare Before Christmas as a director to facilitate Tim Burton’s vision.
Burton worked closely with Danny Elfman in developing all the songs before any screenplay was ever written.
Burton had already created and deigned all the characters and look of the world years before.
Nightmare Before Christmas took well over a couple years to shoot due to the nature of the medium and what Burton was envisioning.
Burton had just completed Edward Scissorhands and was under enormous pressure to return to Warner Brothers for the sequel to Batman.
The only reason Henry Selick has a career and ever had the opportunity to direct a film like Coraline is because of the opportunity given to him by Tim Burton.
Tim Burton had the power and juice to get an entire stop motion feature film greenlit when no one else had the power or drive to do so.
And all The Nightmare Before Christmas IP was owned by Disney as he created all of it when he worked for them as an animator.
Burton’s name had enough clout that Disney took a huge chance on a very unorthodox film in every way.
From the story to the medium of stop motion.
When The Nightmare Before Christmas was originally released, it was not released as a Disney film.
But as a Touchstone Pictures film.
A subsidiary of Disney.
It was only once it became and established and embraced holiday classic was it that Disney began openly claiming the film.
I remember Shelly Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends on showtime.
Saw this in the theaters at age 14. The bathroom scene was life changing scary. The first time I ever saw a naked female, and then she turns into a rotting crone.
One of the Greatest Horror movies ever. I would place it in the top 5 of all time, but i left it off this list. (my opinion obviously)
1) The Thing (1981)
2) Rosemary's Baby (1968)
3) Night of the Living Dead (1968)
4) Evil Dead (1981)
5) Alien (1979)
6) The Exorcist (1973)
7) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
8) Psycho (1960)
9) Train to Busan (2016)
10) Drag Me to Hell (2009)
Good list! Any of those are worth seeing, and I love the '78 Invasion Of The Body Snatchers made it. Love Rosemary's Baby. Etc etc.
Ouuu train to busan is a good one!
24:28 That TV ain't even plugged in.
Kubrick was Master of weirded-out atmosphere.
wow what a good catch!
Great movie. The photo at the end is just meant to show those that the hotel had absorbed, almost like an unending purgatory. I read that filming this was brutal for the actress playing Wendy Torrence. The director kept her terrified so that she'd give an authentic performance.
this was Nicholson's ICONIC Performance.
absolutely
That bathroom scene laugh would be the greatest ringtone ever.
Red shows up on scenes foreshadowing blood.
Scat nan on the phone heading to the Overlook, red shirt.
Red on the planes seat backs.
Red on the chairs, etc.
Red is everywhere in the film
The girl in the black dress sitting on the sofa in the gold room is director Stanley Kubrick’s daughter Vivian.
RIP Shelley Duvall. 7 Jul 49 - 11 Jul 24. You were incredible in "The Shining."
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This is risking me getting attacked in the comments, so I want to preface by saying this movie is fantastic and the tension and suspense is amazing
The only thing I wish was different is how Nicholson's Jack Torrance is seemingly unhinged from the start. In the book, there's a much more slow build up where he starts off pretty reasonable and it very slowly escalates, which is what I prefer. But like I said, fantastic movie regardless.
it was pretty dang good! and hey if that’s what your opinion is no one should attack! 👍😀
One of the things Stephen King hated about this movie. Plus Wendys character was a lot of a stronger character in the book.@@TheOctobersReact
Advocaat - the drink spilled on Jack - is an eggnog drink popular in the 1920s, and also made earlier. Basically hootchy eggnog, typically mixed with bourbon. My family's adult eggnog recipe was a bit like that, featuring equal parts whiskey, brandy, and rum.
This style differs from modern horror in that the music is what drives the anxiety, and as you go, you collect information, but nothing is really explained, which is another source of anxiety. The sequel is "Doctor Sleep" which is a modern thriller.
my grandma made some adult egg nog we weren’t allowed to have and that sounds kinda like what she had! -mrs o!
@@TheOctobersReact It's good stuff. As a tiny kid they gave me a sip expecting me to not like it, but I was like "Yum! Can I have more?" and they realized they had a problem. lol
Fortunately our homemade kids' eggnog was also super good.
Still very popular with Dutch people (my ex was one). My parents threw a cocktail party in the 60s and everyone got violently ill on concoctions made with that stuff. 🤮
@rickardroach9075 sounds like a very bad hangover lol
@@TheOctobersReact Fun fact: someone decided to make the mix that would result from the drinks spilled over Jack Torrance in the party scene. The cocktail is, named, no wonder, The Jack Torrance.
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The music playing during the opening credits is a variation of the 'Dies Irae', a Gregorian chant asociated with funerals since at least the thirteenth century. It's usually heard in films to indicate a dire situation or the nearness of death.
Jack also has the shine. In the book Mr. Halloran doesn’t die. He’s also alive in Dr. Sleep, which is when Danny is an adult.
It would be classic if when the pediatrician asks Danny, "If you were to open your mouth, could I see Tony?" and Danny opened his mouth and there was a miniature little boy in there. Okay, I know I be trippin....lol
lol it woulda made more sense
0:55 "...she doesn't believe in them."
horror movies are real. 🙂
actually they just scare the pants off me !
Nicholson's character was normal UNTIL they got to the lodge. . .Then the creepy "influence" came over him and completely changed him. NO, he wasn't originally taking his family up there to kill them. . .NO he wasn't.
You guys rock
Thanks for dropping this reaction video
I just got off work and have a long bus ride ahead of me
You guys made my trip way funnier and faster
thank you glad we can help!
“And they’re British?” 😂😂 Great reaction. You’ve got another sub!
thank you 😊 thanks for watching!!
i like yalls vibe. subscribed. thanks 4 watching this classic
And they're British, hail naw....dude,I almost spit out my drink. Good stuff. Jacks eyebrows alone are enough to scare me. Killer.....reaction.
i love the phrase killer reaction! soooo cool!
haha, I'm married to a Brit
Putting Jack in the place she couldn't afford to put him, in with the food. She was going to use the radio and sno-cat to escape.
Well, there's that bit about the Donner party to remember, and that there was a cold meat store where Jack would freeze, and the dry goods was perhaps more merciful, where he would die of thirst before he'd die of hunger.
Being in the canned goods might have been the worst though (no can-opener), so Wendy wasn't going crazy, just sayin' - and without phones, radio or sno-cat, she's just delivering him to the hotel anyway.
The Shining is not a horror movie but is a psychological thriller in fact.
The Shining is indeed a horror film--what gave you the silly idea that it wasn't? it is a psychological paranormal horror film; in fact, there's nothing really thriller about it, just suspense and dread with some violence sprinkled in. Do you have an extremely limited concept of what constitutes horror?
The real horror is the hairstyle of those two little girls. It still freaks me out. The only other hairstyle more frightening was John Ritter's in Sling blade.
“And they’re British?”
Dead. 😭😭
Bc no that’s valid to be most scared about im-
There are tons of references to colonialism and taking land from natives in the wall art, food cans etc. So, in that sense, the film reminds me a bit of Poltergeist and that idea of a site being built over the bodies of ancestors. The ghosts making references to having "always been here" etc I think supports that. I get the strong sense that the blood and horror runs deeper than just back to 1921. That the more recent ghosts are feeding off that older energy.
Indeed most USA citizens have no idea the severe trauma that occurred with what was basically the extinction of much of the Native Americans....... 90% lost due to horrific disease .... And 10% from direct conflict with European invaders. They were accounts of the surviving members of tribes .... So mentally broken..... They literally sat down and starved to death with heads in hands
They are hiring him to watch the place while it is empty and make sure the heat stays on.
Thank you guys love your reactions! 👍🥇
thank you for watching ❤️
Sad how you two reacted to the parents leaving their son with the head chef. Back in the sixties and seventies life was different and we trusted people. Not like the over cautious paranoid young adults we have today.
They filmed the stair scene hundreds of times. They tortured poor Shelly.
that sucks lol bc it was scary !
The reaction was probably real
@@GoodTimeForARoll it was as real as they could make it.
No, they didn't torture poor Shelly. The Steadicam is going up the stairs BACKWARDS. In 1979! If anyone was being "tortured" it was the Steadicam operator! THAT'S why the scene took so long to shoot! Yet another person just babbling crap he heard, rather than using his brain. Yes, it was a tough shoot for Shelley, it was a tough shoot for EVERYBODY! It was a tough shoot for Scatman Crothers who had to get axed in the chest over 60 times! Nicholson himself got back to California to start shooting "Reds" and he told everyone about working with Kubrick "That was tough duty." Shelley Duvall next made Popeye and she was fine, then went on to produce "Fairy Tale Theatre" for the rest of the 80s, unheard of for a woman back then. She's not some kind of victim, nor does she want to be seen like that. Years later she had mental issues and everyone starts pretending it's because of The Shining. It had more to do with the REACTION to The Shining, where people maligned her performance (and Jack Nicholson's) for YEARS. Great everyone likes her now, but at the time....and for decades people were beating up on her performance. Before The Shining, she had only had accolades.
@@TTM9691 You sure spend a lot of time and energy insulting others for having a different opinion. Do you miss your mommy? I’ll send her right over.
I've been watching this movie since i was Danny's age in 1980. Still my fav horror film.
Until this watching, I never noticed the similarity between the "therapist" that talks to Danny........and the red haired woman in Ullmans office....
You need to watch Doctor Sleep, it's the sequel to the Shining.
Funny. Everybody is always upset that they let him go with Halloran. Such a different world. That's how shit was and it worked perfectly.
Grady was the scariest. Saying he'd always been there is beyond creepy because the audience is supposed to infer an 'eternal' aspect, but at the same time distrust an evil spirit-- like, they're evil and are going to tell you blatant lies or partial truth. The hotel hated families and togetherness. When Wendy was frantic and running trying to find Danny, the hotel showed her "togetherness doesn't matter if you're dead" hence the skeletons in the ballroom. Very scary film
The film on television where you were mocking the young male actor was The Summer of 42. The actor was Gary Grimes. The film was nominated for over a dozen major awards and the films soundtrack won an Academy Award. Grimes portrayal was of a young innocent teenager with a painful crush on a married woman. The film was released in 1972. Its considered a classic. Do your research before you mock a film you know nothing about!
I have read the book and it has some similarities, but the book is way better. First off, in the book, Jack the dad loved his family a lot. Not like in the movie that he already looks psychotic. Wendy was experiencing the hauntings from the beginning. She would hear conversations and the parties in the ballroom. She even found confetti and told Jack that they aren’t alone. Also, there was no maze in the book. It was hedges shaped into animals like lions and rabbits, that moved. The hotel manager that hired Jack was an A-hole. In the movie when Jack is in the 1921 picture, i think it's because his soul is now trapped in the hotel. I recommend that you read the book. Stephen King wanted to help Stanley Kubrick make the movie, but he declines because he had his own vision of how he wants it. The Shining from the book was remade in adaptation for a TV mini-series. You could check that out as well.
36:22 Jack was having a ball in this role 😈
Nice job guys!
What’s up with Hallorann’s pictures? The man’s got taste!
not hating !
@@TheOctobersReact 😂 🤌
"Why does he sound 15?" I cracked up at that, lol
can’t wait for the octobers to watch movies in october
us either !!
This movie is such a masterpiece!
we felt like it’s referenced so much in life that why not check it out!
@@TheOctobersReact I feel you! This movie scared the shit out of me (literally) as a child 🤣 now it's just creepy and funny as hell lol still effective tho
@ezelldaniels6064 i know the actor is creepy no matter what year it is lol 😂
@@TheOctobersReact Man fr lol
In the book people who shine are like power packs that power the hotel and Danny is the most powerful that's why the events get stronger and its hold on his father gets tighter.
What about the fact that no character “sees” the ghosts until Jack kills Mr Halloran. Once this happens, Shelly Duval sees the bear scene, the dead guy with the cut on his head and then all the skeletons. Once the house gets its blood, the masks come off
Except Hallorann doesn’t die in the book. He survives alongside Danny and Wendy. But in Doctor Sleep, Danny still has a lot of ptsd from the events of this movie.
Actually, doctors making housecalls were very common up until the mid 1980s.
The sets on this film were Awesome they were all built they used photos from other Hotels the exterior shots were from The Timberline lodge The Shining is just a Masterpiece in my opinion.
Jack Nicholson was my first crush from this movie. With age I’ve found I have issues😂
ahahaha love this comment.
The road to Hana is pretty awesome. Lots of fun to drive.
It really is! sooo beautiful
I was 10 years old and can remember laying in bed at night and hearing the TV play the commercial for this and I could see in my bedroom mirror the bloody... elevator
oh my goodness! that is torture! i can imagine how scary this was bc it is still the same way now !
@@TheOctobersReactThe original trailer for The Shining uses a piece of music written by Wayne / Wendy Carlos called 'Timesteps' it's worth finding here on yt.
Decades later, the same music was used for the trailer for the film '2012', as well.
Great reaction.
Now just hoping you guys are onto Doctor Sleep next? Which is the Shining part 2, essentially, Maybe? Hopefully? HeeHee :)
we both haven’t seen it so it’s fair game !
Opening shot is amazing!
Apparently, being old and saggy is worse (to Jack) than thinking someone strangled his son.
She was a rotted corpse
Good reaction subbed, more 70s and 80s movies please 🤘😁
haven’t seen basically any of them so we have them on the list for sure
My pug and I have watched this together countless times. One of my favorites
your pug?? we love you! we have 3!
this was wonderful ! love the movie and the reincarnation of jack
Great reaction guys. 👍👍👍👍👍
thank you for watching ❤️
The Hotel feeds off psychic energy and Danny is a powerful psychic. The longer he stayed there, the more powerful the Hotel became and the ghosts became more alive. When Dick Hollaran was killed, a powerful psychic, the ghosts really became alive, which is why the Hotel wanted Jack to kill Danny. The reincarnation part, yeah you got it. Remember when Jack told Wendy it felt like he has been there before? Jack had low levels of psychic energy which is why he saw the ghosts. And yes Jack died in the snow from exposure, hypothermia. As someone who is from one of the northern winter states, you won't last long, like how Jack was dressed, in the cold with temperatures in probably the negatives since this was Colorado, in the mountains, in winter. This is one of my favorite horror movies, even if it doesn't hold true to the book, which would be impossible to translate to film to begin with.
so there is more to danny’s skills than the movie kinda told us, maybe it did by symbolic things but it didn’t really flat out give danny credit for his skills. or maybe it did, now i have to rewatch it bc wow makes sense
@@TheOctobersReact I should have said his skills are undeveloped. Dr. Sleep, the next movie shows off his talents. Even though in this movie his abilities are undeveloped, the energy itself is still strong and the Hotel wants it. Dr. Sleep is a good sequel, explains more on what happened in this movie, goes into better detail about psychics and is a little bit more horror disturbing than this movie
@CollideFan1 pretty awesome then, we will need to check it out
House calls by doctors were still pretty common in the 70s/early 80s
dang i’d hate to be a doctor and go up in some of these houses!
The hotel's supernatural power gets stronger as the movie goes on. First only Danny sees the ghosts, then Jack, finally Wendy. The book makes it clear that the hotel is feeding off Danny's shining power.
Yes, he directed the Moon Landing with one condition, it had to be shot on the location.
I like astronaut Buzz Aldrins response to a Moon landing conspiracy nut who followed him around and harassed him in public. Buzz punched him in the mouth.
Its funny you mentioned Jack smiling too much. The book opens on the interview as well, with Jack giving a "big, toothy, PR" grin to the hotel manager to get the job, while inside Jack's calling the manager an "officious little prick." 😊
This is my favorite movie of all time. There’s a video on CZcams from the channel “Wow Lynch Wow” called “There Are No Ghosts in The Shining” and it’s totally worth a watch.
okay we should check this out for sure
@@TheOctobersReact a thousand percent! There’s a bunch of theory and breakdown videos, but that one is the most fascinating in my opinion. Also makes me feel like I didn’t pay attention to the movie at all. I hope you enjoy! 😊
Just watched the first ten min. I’ll finish it today wow 😮
@@TheOctobersReact haha blows your mind, right? Enjoy the rest 😈
Just finished! Thanks for sharing that!
That opening road is NOT in Hawaii! Saint Mary Lake and Wild Goose Island in Glacier National Park, Montana was the filming location for the aerial shots of the opening scenes, with the Volkswagen Beetle driving along Going-to-the-Sun Road.
yes we know it just reminded us of it
King makes it clear in the book (and the TV miniseries version of this) that Tony is Danny from the future. Danny is a powerful psychic and Tony is acting as his "control:" a sort of entity that helps psychics process information.
When he says, "Danny's not here Mrs. Torrance," it's because Danny left to go and seek help from Halloren (by sending terrifying images).
22:26 That's just the way Jack Nicholson looks. 😆
The thing I like about Kubrick's "Easter Eggs" is that I think he deliberately put some of them in just to play with the audience. He knew some people would spot them and start jumping up and down about what they mean. Kubrick was way ahead of those who saw a special meaning in most of them. I think he enjoyed knowing they'd get a reaction, and he loved pulling the audience's strings. The trick is to decide which of them actually may contain a hidden message, and which do not. Not easy to do since some of them seem way too obvious. . .But who knows? That's part of the fun of a Kubrick film.
if you guys liked jack in this, you should check out one flew over the cuckoos nest
great suggestion
Rob Agar’s Collative Learning has the best shining analyses on the internet.
Nicely done. Subbed ✅
welcome and thank you so much
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