The Shining [DVD] [1980]

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Ebert concludes that "The movie is not about ghosts but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them". citation needed] The shooting script was being changed constantly, sometimes several times a day, adding more stress. If the idea of working in an area with oil smoke clouding the air sounds hellish, you are not only absolutely right, but also halfway to recognizing how terrible it was to film The Shining’s final sequence: the hedge maze chase.

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is] a brilliant, ambitious attempt to shoot a horror film without the Gothic trappings of shadows and cobwebs so often associated with the genre.

At the top of the poster are the words " A MASTERPIECE OF MODERN HORROR", with the credits and other information at the bottom.

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The negative side effect was that the smoke combined with the lights created a kind of sick yellow on set, but Kubrick was able to suck out all of the red and yellow while emphasizing the blue during the color timing process, and the result is what we see in the movie! He leaves a monstrous entity that Danny is able to divert while he, Wendy and Dick Hallorann escape. The actresses who played the ghosts of the murdered Grady daughters, Lisa and Louise Burns, are identical twins.Mike Flanagan, director of the film adaptation of Doctor Sleep, would reconcile the differences between novel and film versions of The Shining there. Jack in the photo has 'always' been at the Overlook; Jack the caretaker chooses to become part of the hotel. Film reviewer James Berardinelli notes "It has been pointed out that there's a mirror in every scene in which Jack sees a ghost, causing us to wonder whether the spirits are reflections of a tortured psyche.