First Time Watching THE SHINING Reaction... It has the MOST HATEFUL HORROR MOVIE VILLAIN
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Watching THE SHINING for the first time!
Hi I'm Kat, and I am terrified of horror movies. They scare the beep out of me. LET'S WATCH'EM!
👻 PATREON (full-length reactions + more!) ► / katwatcheshorrormovies
🎮 LIVE FUN ► / armenastra
💫 ALL MY LINKS ► linktr.ee/Arme...
🎉Thank You Top Tier Patrons!
Oldcrankybeard | CLFuqua87 | Gary F | Richard Worth | Taggart A. Dean | Steve Lewis | Joseph A Zakutny | Josh Link | King of Halloween | Thomas Amann | Jeb Manning
*Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED. All rights belong to their respective owners.
#firsttimewatching #firsttimewatchinghorror #theshining #moviereaction
When I watched it back in high school, I didn't realize what an MVP Tony was. He kept Danny updated on the situation throughout the movie. He put Danny in a protected state when it was too much to handle. He called Hallorann for help from the other side of the country. And he woke up Wendy, armed her, and warned her that Jack was coming.
Tony is grown up Danny in the future, projecting himself back to help his infant self/mother.
☝️☝️ Reach out we have something to talk about🎁🎁.
Technically she was already armed; the knife came from the kitchen outside the store room....but Danny picked it up, and when she woke up she grabbed it, yes. Some say "How could she sleep through that?".....but she's gotta be exhausted, really
He called Hallorann to his death.
@@busterboy7507Are you unfamiliar with the concept of self sacrifice in film? I'm sure Dick knew the risk and thought it worth it. They lived because he delivered the snow mobile.
"Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.” For some reason Jack's delivery of that line cracks me up.
'As thoon as pothebal?'
Every line's delivered brilliantly. Easily one of the most quotable performances ever.
*Light* of my *life*
@@TeamMemberNumberEight Fair enough
I agree...also to Lloyd: "Kinda slow tonight, isn't it?"
"critics have called it a bit repetitive" made me ROAR with laughter!
Top notch comment!!!
Jack needs some play, his mind is clearly expressing that.
Same, dying over here!
Fr tho?? That was so good I had to write it down bc I literally have a folder of my favorite quotes bc I know I'll forget them lmao and the way you delivered it, like it was so quick and off the top made it even funnier
Lol, Stephen King himself is repetitive.
The typewriter was not typing by itself. Wendy was turning the wheel to feed the paper through to see further down the page. When typing on old typewriters like that, where the keys hit is down much farther than the top where the paper comes out, there's a little window where you can read exactly what you're typing, but you have to scroll the wheel to get the paper out of the machine as it's held in quite securely.
The bear scene..”umm..ummm…umm..glance at the camera…ummm..”
😂😂😂😂
Yep, she forgot to say, "Avert your eyes!"
"Where's the happy ending" ...seconds before they show a guy that just got a happy ending
Fun fact: Jack Nicholson was a volunteer fire fighter. As such, breaking down doors was part of the job. When they tried using movie doors (the kind that break easy), Jack demolished them in a single swing. That's why the scene where he's breaking the bathroom door looks so good. That's a real axe being used on a solid wood door.
It's also the scene, i think soured jack on the director. And things between them, broke down quick afterwards. To a point they couldn't stand each other.
@@gohanangered9650I'm surprised they already hadn't soured even by then. There was one scene where they did 127 takes because Kubrick was such an obsessive perfectionist.
@@gohanangered9650 LOL maybe it was like Texas Chainsaw where Gunnar Hassan joked that when he was swinging the chainsaw in the air that he tried to hit Tobe Hooper with it.
@@gohanangered9650 Wasn't the line, "Here's Johnny" an improvisation by Jack that he didn't tell anyone about. If memory serves me (and it rarely does), it was a radio host who would call out like that at the beginning of his show.
@@aaronmicalowe Yeah i think it was improvised.
I think the implication is that Danny inherited the shine from his father, which is why both of them could see the ghosts haunting the hotel and Wendy had no idea. She only sees them at the end when things are totally out of control. In the end, the Overlook Hotel absorbed Jack and made him part of the crew as if he had always been. It wanted to eat the entire family but only got Jack.
I had a thought watching this reaction. Wendy doesn't see the ghosts until Halloran is killed. Maybe that had something to do with it. The hotel got his shine and became more powerful.
There was a line in the book where Halloran mused about Wendi and a mother's intuition, proffering that "maybe all mothers got a touch of the shine and just don't know it." Could be true and that the level of potent energies being expended by the hotel during the end game reached that threshold where even her lesser maternal sense could "see." Of course, at that same point of the story, the hotel was focusing an incredible amount of its attention/energy on her, trying to separate her from Dany so Jack could finish it's dark work.
I also always interpreted the end as the hotel absorbing Jack's soul (though it had really wanted the more powerful Danny) - like, Jack wouldn't have been in the photo had they shown it earlier and only appeared in it after he died - but that interpretation has always been a little mucked up by Delbert Grady's statement that "You've always been the caretaker." At first, I chalked that up to the Overlook gaslighting Jack, manipulating him, but there's another interesting detail in that scene that is often missed: Delbert Grady isn't the name of the previous caretaker that we hear about at the beginning of the film (the one who axe-murdered his family in the 1970s). That guy's name was Charles Grady.
Looking further into it, I discovered an interview with Stanley Kubrick that sheds a tiny bit more light on the situation. Although he doesn't talk about what anything means in great detail, he does mention that there's an element of reincarnation at play. The insinuation was that there are certain souls connected to the Overlook who keep returning to life and are continually drawn back to it, life after life, to repeat the same cycle of temptation and madness. And you see, throughout the film, Jack gives in to every temptation: he falls off the wagon (and offers his soul for a glass of beer, an offer which the Hotel immediately takes him up on), he cheats on Wendy with the naked bath lady (who then turns to a corpse and mockingly laughs at him, presumably for being so weak), he indulges his anger on numerous occasions, etc, etc. So, in Kubrick's apparent interpretation of the situation, that person in the photo in the end isn't actually Jack Torrance, it's a previous incarnation of the soul that's currently inhabiting Jack Torrance and would've been in the photo all along. And that soul keeps choosing the bad path, life after life, and pays the price each time.
Personally, I still prefer the non-reincarnation interpretation that you and I started with, that a person appears in the photo after the hotel absorbs their soul and Jack's appearance in the photo at the end means the hotel got him. But I figured I'd pass on the filmmakers interpretation too just because it's interesting to note what was actually intended to come across when he made the movie.
@@johnplaysgames3120 Sorry for the late response, I just discovered this channel. I could be wrong, but from what I vaguely remember from interviews and hearing about the story, the book goes into more detail about a lot of this stuff, and the "shining" plays a much bigger role in it (as does Halloran, I think). From what I kinda-sorta remember, I think Kubrick initially was going to include more of this stuff, but he had to cut it down. I haven't read the book, but I'd imagine that the book would probably give a more thorough explanation of things, and would make some of these details (like Jack being in the picture) more clear to the reader. Kubrick kinda skimmed over stuff because it's a movie, and it's his interpretation, but I also think he initially wanted to include more and tell a slightly different story (which I think the mini-series did, but the mini-series just wasn't as good in general, and probably included too *much* of that stuff, so it was more boring all-around).
If you haven't seen the recent sequel (with Danny all grown up and going back to the hotel), called Doctor Sleep, it's worth a watch. I was pleasantly surprised because I didn't expect much from it. But it also explains a bit more about everything - though it's been a while since I saw it, so I forget exactly what the story is.
Actually, remember when Jack told Wendy he'd felt as if he'd been there before? I believe he was actually reincarnated; which would explain why he felt that way, and the ghosts from back in the early 1909's knew him so well. Perhaps he was actually Grady in his former life, and the woman in room 237 was his murdered wife from the past life.
It's well known know that Kubrick really treated Shelley Duvall like an abused spouse during the shooting. He was mean and abusive to her, ostensibly for the purpose of eliciting a better and more believable performance from her. I mean, i guess it worked, but damn. Also the kid that played Danny had no idea what the movie was about. He only shot his scenes, and never knew about the blood or the axe murders or any of that stuff.
I think some of the mistreatment of Shelley (RIP) has been debunked. Kubrick was a very controlling director, but I think the stories ultimately related more to her mental health issues than him (could have seen some misinformation, correct me if I'm wrong).
On the second point, that's confirmed true. Danny was told it was a family drama, not a horror film and they treated shooting as such. Fortunately for him, he grew up to be Ewan McGregor. ;p
You literally have the art to take a movie someone has seen a million times and make it feel like wer'e watching it for the first time. It's scary all over again.
Her "The Thing" reaction is really great too!
@@justinmccarty3886 i think I saw that one too ❤
I am so glad RUclips suggested her channel. She's the best. So charismatic and funny.
Kat makes me laugh in EVERY reaction. My favorite part is when she says things like "Please" or "Not the slow turn".
Ahhh. Mike thank you so much for saying this. I can't tell you how happy it makes me to know that you're enjoying these. And that I can bring something fresh to movies that you've seen so many times. Thank you thank you thank you for being here!!! THIS MADE MY DAY!!!Kat:D
I think ending just means Jack’s spirit is forever trapped in the hotel now, just like Grady & the rest. So the next caretaker may even have a talk with Jack in the restroom.
Also… Tony was a real one! It’s delightful that Danny’s dark passenger was like “Hi Mrs. Torrence… as the weird spirit that inhabits your child, just a courtesy heads up that there’s an even weirder, malicious spirit inhabiting your this hotel AND your hubby, and we should go! You know… FYI.” 😅
Yet not Mr. Hallorann, and he 'Shined'.
Even Tony was like, "this is f*cked."
Danny's full name was Daniel Anthony Torrence. "Tony" is himself.
@@Bluesit32it's funny how right he is I just didn't want to spoil the next movie
@@Bluesit32 Per the book, Tony is a projection of Danny through time. Danny's shining is more unique and stronger being able to summon himself "like looking into a magic mirror reflecting himself" from a possible version 10 years in the future. So Tony (future danny) steps in and talks to Danny, or takes over, whenever the situation is too difficult for Danny's childhood self to deal with. Which is also why he was able to call Dick Hallorann as soon as Danny went away, as he has more experience with The Shining abilities. The overlook wants to use Jack, who was connected to evil by his father's continual abuse and forming Jack's hatred of meek women, to trap Danny's soul in the hotel allowing it to feed of his powers and have greater range and control over time.
This then mimics Danny encountering Abra Stone who is stronger then Danny, and the True Knot wants to absorb her powers allowing them to live for many centuries.
My thoughts on what happened are that the hotel is collecting souls. Once you're collected it's like you have been there for all of time. It collects people by finding a weakness and exploiting it. Jack has an anger problem. He was trying to improve at the beginning (after breaking Danny's arm he quit drinking if I remember rightly) but the hotel broke his mind and convinced him to kill everyone
Anger and alcohol problem.
Pulled from your ass like everybody else who watches this shitty movie.
Per the book the hotel wants Danny to die on the premises so it can absorb his power, which is supposed to be of a greater raw potential than Dick's power. Plus because of his relationship with his father, he inherits some connection to the evil forces. Where as Dick and Tony (Future Danny) have better defenses against its influence.
Now of course King doesn't really go into the mechanics of the Overlook hotel, just that its power has something to do with the past events that happened there providing spiritual and connection with evil entities, and feeding off the ghosts that are bound to it.
In the film Kubrick suggested that the overlook was a Native American spiritual site held a conduit to another world/plane and that the hotel somehow merges all the people and power it claims into its evil past.
Jack Nicholson is counted among the greatest acting talents by many fans, you can always tell a great actor by how much you love the character or hate the character, btw you are braver than me, there's no way I could watch a horror movie with a creepy little doll standing in the corner behind me 😧
What doll? I don't see a doll there, do you?
@@falcychead8198 In some o these videos I think I've seen him move up closer, I think he likes to watch too
@@falcychead8198 No-one else sees a doll, right? 😉
Y'all there's a creepy doll in the background of kats videos in her room
Yeah especially with her doll and how she moves it around a little bit for the edit ❤
The b&w framed photograph at the end represents all the souls consumed by the Overlook.
Watching the Director's Cut of Doctor Sleep is a must if you loved this movie. Doctor Sleep has become by favorite horror movie/adaptation of all time. Such an amazing horror epic that expands more into the Stephen King universe and the Shining itself. Can't wait to see your reaction to it.
You forgot to mention it's the *sequel* to the Shining. Danny grown up, eventually he returns to the hotel for unfinished business.
It was really interesting seeing Ewan McGregor in that role. He did a really good job with Polanski's The Ghost Writer, and somehow that carried into Dr. Sleep as well.
In my book it wasn't that good. They did a good stab at it, but used way to much from the original Shining to make it work.
In the novel, you feel bad for Wendy Danny and even Jack. Because Jack is honestly trying to keep his shut together and he just falls apart before the reader slowly and painfully
☝️☝️ Reach out we have something to talk about🎁🎁.
The movie was scary but the book was 10x scarier because it allows your imagination to fill in the blanks. I started reading The Shining when i was 12 and only got about 1/4 of the way through it before I had to put it down. Didn't pick it back up to re-read until 5 years later, and even at 17 it was scary as hell.
And the hotel explodes.
@scoobysnacks the book was much better
@@GinaPressleyeh dunno about much better, I think both are masterpieces in their own way
"Well the novel's complete. Critics have called it a bit repetitive." 🤣🤣
Truly one of the funniest things I have heard from any reactor about any movie!!
Kat, I just discovered you two days ago, and I'm hooked! You have mastered the art of saying SO much while using very few words, and you are so fun and engaging. I want to recommend a gem that often gets overlooked, "Secret Window" with Johnny Depp. It takes you on a rollercoaster right up to the final act.
Keep 'em coming!! 😊
If the bathroom door seemed sturdy, it's because it was overbuilt. Jack Nicholson used to be a firefighter, and he chopped through the original door too quickly, so they had to build it more strongly the second time.
Also, not sure if this counts as a legitimate horror movie, but The Village is one of my favorites.
I think he chopped through the prop door too quickly so they gave him a real door.
Ah, you might be right.
The Village is more, than a horror, but it still would be awesome to see a reaction :)
@@marximus4 They're right. It was the prop door that fell apart in a couple of blows. Jack missed his calling as a lumberjack.
@@zotharr I hated that movie. Something about Shyamalan movies always rub me the wrong way.
LATE TO THE PARTY: If you want another King movie set in a creepy hotel, I suggest '1408.'
And watch 1408 from a hotel room! That would be awesome.
A bit of a yarn, but stay with me. I had a microwave that would beep for no reason, just randomly, even if I wasn't using it. I smashed it, like 90s kids do when things don't work, and it stopped. Months later, after having been quiet that entire time, it went off EXACTLY when the alarms started going off in 1408. Threw that fucker off my 14th floor balcony. Not sure I've ever been so scared.
@@misterderp4566 I will say this from personal experience: there is NOTHING more terrifying than being in a hotel hallway when the power goes out.
Don't ask.
@@martinholt8168 I dunno about that, but I used to work at Denver Airport (which has its own urban legend/conspiracy theory background) and I was working the graveyard shift in the basement of the airport when the power went out. Didn't even have my phone on me and had no idea how to find my way out. Just had to stand there in the darkest darkness I've ever experienced till the power came back on.
I'd say the most hateful villain here is Warner Brothers' copyright department. I'm glad you finally got this posted.
I don't think Jack was a villain at all. He was a victim of the Hotel. He was just weak minded and the most easily possessed. Or maybe the Hotel put more effort into taking his soul because he was the physically strongest. It did the same thing with the previous father. Jack was the most useful.
@michaelbuhl4250 Right? Who made these copyright laws anyway? They should be done away with. Hollywood and the movie industry has too much money and power because of them
I thought he was just a nice, normal guy who’s reacting the same way any of us would if we were shut up in a hotel with their wife and kid for more than a week.
@@mookiewilson4166 Stephen King claimed Nicholson appeared "Crazy from the start" but I never saw that, I thought he seemed like an ordinary guy like you said; A frustrated writer maybe, and there were a few signs that he had some contempt for his wife
@@mookiewilson4166 based on your comment I'm assuming you haven't read the book... 10/10 recommend it, it brings so much more depth to the characters
Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall were so perfectly cast in this great film. So is Danny Lloyd, the little boy. They looked like a real, terrified family in seclusion. Very terrifying. Brilliantly done.
22:19 "Give him your honest feedback" 😅
27:38 "That's a good quality bathroom door if you think about it" 🤪
29:47 Kat.exe not responding 😵😵💫
Wow. This lady is legit funny & quick. She's super animated with raw reactions. She's just raised the bar for reaction-video's to Olympic levels.
She really cool and funny. Love her!
The thing about the nd is that the film is about cycles. That's why so many things change, like Grady's first name is different when Halloran tells the story than what he says it is in the bathroom, or when it was that Jack broke Danny's collarbone, or stopped drinking. These aren't continuity errors, they are intentional. It's to show that all of this stuff has happened before, and will happen again. Jack has always been the caretaker and Jack has always been abusive to his family. At the end Wendy and Danny escape the cycle when they survive and flee, but Jack doesn't, and he's trapped in it.
That's a little simplistic, but if you look at this film as a collection of cycles you'd be amazed how many there are and how much they intertwine.
Loved your reaction to the "bear job".
As for the ending, like any Kubrick film, it's up to you to decide. Kubrick's not one for explaining things. My first take when I saw it was that the hotel had absorbed his soul.
It is explained, kinda. Just like with Delbert Grady and his family, Jack is part of the hotel now.
@@JDelwynn That's one interpretation. There is also the idea that there aren't any ghosts in the hotel at all. We all know Kubrick loved creating intriguing films.
If you’re talking about the scene where Wendy sees the man in costume doing explicit things to another man, it’s a reference to the book that wasn’t widely shown for a reason. Danny sees a dog man with its head on upside down (and I believe, walking backwards on all fours), that shouts its going to do sexual things to him and he runs away, from my memory. I haven’t read it in years, but as an adult I’m halfway through a re-read. Haven’t gotten to that part yet, but I remember it used to be the scariest part to me as a kid. (I should also not have been allowed to read this as a kid.)
@@tbeighle5131Did you get to the part yet?
Furries have been around at least since 1929. 😃
lol, it's not a haunted typewriter, she was turning the sidewheel and making it scroll.
and the reason they showed wendy reading all the pages was to show that jack snapped a LOOOOONG time ago.
anyway, HILARIOUS reaction, as usual! you are soooo funny when you are terrified lol
The other reason was Kubrick's secretary wrote all those pages so you couldn't cut her work short.
@@zedwpd haha awesome
I mean you're not wrong, but I always take umbridge with "snapped" because Jack is literally being mentally assaulted by ghosts trying to manipulate/control/posses him.
@@OpenMawProductions true. Excellent point!!
@@OpenMawProductions But didn't he previously hurt Danny before going to the hotel? Though he said it was an accident, but I imagine he just considers it an accident because he was probably drunk at the time, and that probably ties into why he was trying to stop drinking. I think he "snapped" near the beginning of the movie, but I think he's always been a shitty person in general.
Though I guess you could argue that he was being influenced by the hotel even prior to actually going there (if his soul is like a reincarnation of the former caretaker), but regardless, I'd say he was generally a bad person either way. And I think he was mentally "weak" to begin with, and that allowed the hotel to more easily influence him.
The tenth or so time I watched this film, I started to realise that everything that happened has happened before.
Wendy takes Danny to the maze: 'I'm gonna getcha!' and later: Jack chases Danny into the maze to 'get' him. Both do not succeed.
Halloran shows Wendy a freezer and the dry goods store. Wendy puts Jack in the dry good store, later he freezes.
Many examples of this in this film.
It's made of earlier incidents being repeated.
Such as butler Delbert Grady of the 1930s returning to kill his wife and daughters as Charles Grady in 1970.
Or Mr. Torrance of the 4th of July ball 1920s returning as Jack Torrance in 1980.
21:50 ".. critics call it a bit repetitive."
THAT WAS BRILLIANT!!!🤣😅🤣
☝️☝️ Reach out we have something to talk about🎁🎁
Kat, There aren’t enough comments in the world to summarize how fantastic you are.
*Kat sees the ocean of blood*
“That must be the red rum! I thought it was just MurDeR spelled backwards.”
Now, I’m going to kitchen for a glass of water cause I must be *thirsty*
The real villain is the hotel itself. It takes over Jack's soul and uses him against Danny and Wendy. By the end, the hotel has completely absorbed Jack, which is how he ends up in the picture.
25:21 "STOP IT, STOP IT PLEASE, I BEG YOU!!"
I've been waiting for you to witness this one lol. You're rocking this genre, you've only been posting for a couple of months and you've already gotten through so many of the big ones lol.
"Well the novels done, critics have called it a bit repetitive."
If I had been drinking something it would have ended up all over my phone lol!
HIIIII JOHN WELCOME BACK!!! Ahh. That means a LOT to me. I am very very proud of myself for tackling some of these big ones... I feel like it's important to start with the classics, seeing as they paved the way! ALSO HAHAHA I won't lie to you, that's my favourite part. So you highlighting it MAKES ME VERY HAPPY. Evidently, we have the same sense of humor. HAPPY NEW YEAR PAL!! ALL THE BEST TO YOU!! Kat:D
@@KatWatchesHorror oh yes, sometimes you just have to jump into the pool with both feet lol. Great to be back and a very Happy New Year to you as well! As for the ending, Kubrick, being the very enigmatic director he was, left it ambiguous on purpose, but one of the more popular theories among fans is that Jack was a reincarnation of the man we saw in the July 4th Ball picture. You may differ but it does explain why he felt such a strong sense of deja vu, because he had literally been there before. Now that you've seen this, I strongly recommend checking out the sequel 'Doctor Sleep' that came out a couple of years ago, it's amazing. Love it all, keep it up! 😎
I thought the ending meant jack’s soul was taken by the spirits or the hotel. But here is a statement about that from online: As Stanley Kubrick explains, “It's supposed to suggest a kind of evil reincarnation cycle, where he [Jack] is part of the hotel's history, just as in the men's room, he's talking to the former caretaker [Grady], the ghost of the former caretaker, who says to him, 'you are the caretaker; you've always been the caretaker ...
Censor style: Jack Nippleson.
I hate myself.
Couple a fun facts! The actress who played Wendy was _very_ sick with the flu when they filmed. That's why she looks so, well, sick. The dark circles, the clamminess, the paleness? Yep, that was all real! She was genuinely super sick!
Also, she was _terrified_ of Jack Nicholson. He never properly introduced himself to her before filming, and on set, he did a _lot_ of improv. The entire iconic dialogue on the stairs of "I'm not gonna hurt ya, I'm just gonna bash your brains in" was _improv._ That wasn't scripted. So imagine, being _very_ sick with the flu, and a man who never really introduced himself to you is going _off script_ and manically confessing he wishes to harm you. Yeah... a lot of Wendy's fear wasn't actually acting!
And Jack Nicholson never interacted with her outside of filming until the _end of filming._ So this man, who constantly went of script with insane threats of violence, never fucking spoke to her outside of the scenes they filmed. Add being sick on top, and you get genuine fear.
Other fun facts: The actor that played Danny never knew he was in a horror movie! He found out much later in life, because his memories of filming consisted mainly of memorizing lines to say, and riding a big wheel down hallways. He spent most of the time playing with the other actors and staff, and so never realized there was anything scary about his scenes!
Final fun fact: The twins never did any other acting outside of The Shining. They have a combined screen time of less than 5 minutes, I believe, and are known as the most famous actors with the least amount of total screentime in the world!
What's NOT fun is the shit Kubrick subjected Shelly Duvall to especially when she seems to have a very, very passive personality. A different actress might have cursed him out and walked off
They did more acting. They were in coors light commercials, that's why they are known as the coors light twins.
I've watched this movie more times than I can count and I never noticed before that there was no "wet floor" sign. Thank you for enhancing the experience.
☝️☝️ Reach out we have something to talk about🎁🎁.
I love this channel. On the one hand, somewhere deep down part of me feels bad deriving so much pleasure from watching someone else suffer. On the other hand, your ability to inject humour into the most stressful situations gives me hope for humanity 🙂
"Come play with us, Kat!" 🤣
Glad you watched this, it's a classic. Also, if you ever get the chance, watch the 3 part TV movie version with Rebecca De Mornay and Steven Weber. King didn't like Kubrick's version, so he wrote the screenplay and bankrolled the TV version and it's a lot closer to the book. Definitely worth a watch!
Also, Happy New Year! I hope it's an amazing and successful one for you!
I did like that version alot.
Where can you watch that version though it doesn't look available anywhere?
IMHO, The Kubrick version was a better movie, but the King version was a better adaptation.
I remember when they announced the series. Came home from work geeking out to watch it. King said he didn’t like the Kubrick’, said “it didn’t have a heart.”
As someone who read the book first I totally prefer the TV miniseries overall due to the inclusion of so much more of the creepy stuff from the book, BUT I do still think the directing and acting is far better in the movie.
I believe the final scene means that Jack has been completely absorbed by the hotel and now is one of the ghosts, out of the normal flow of time.
☝️☝️ Reach out we have something to talk about🎁🎁
Definitely right!
One of our local movie theaters installed full carpeting that is identical to the hotel's carpet pattern and they have a simulated hallway of the hotel going into the wall. So cool!! Oh and I've been to Timberline Lodge at Mt. Hood in Oregon which is the inspiration for the exterior although the interior and maze were filmed in England.
☝️☝️ Reach out we have something to talk about🎁🎁.
The inside of that hotel is SO disappointing despite being well-designed.
I was in Colorado, Estes Park because I'd been told The Stanley Hotel was the location for The Shining. Was it used for some exterior shots? I thought, but something didn't seem right. It was only when walking around the hotel interior, seeing 'stills' from movie that I asked a staff member. 'Yes, that's right. They filmed The Shining here...' Further investigation revealed it was the location for The Shining TV Mini Series.
We never saw that here in the UK. It was a bit of a disappointment and quite the detour to go and see it.
(Long before smartphones and Google.)
The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park was the inspiration for the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's original book. They (obviously) didn't use the Stanley for this movie, but if you listen to the weather report on the TV news, that is (supposed to be) coming from Denver. The newscaster is Bertha Lynn, who was a very well-known local anchorwoman in Denver at the time.
For the TV miniseries, they finally filmed much of it *at* the actual Stanley Hotel. But what is really funny about that is that the Overlook is supposed to be waaayyyy up in the mountains, all by itself, and totally snowed in during the Winter months. But if you go to Estes Park, the Stanley Hotel is actually not far off of the main road that runs through Estes Park; it's not at all isolated from the rest of the town, the way the Overlook was isolated from the (fictional) town of Sidewinder, in the story.
So, inspiration = yes. But not duplication.
RIP Shelly Duvall
Shelley Duvall just passed away.
Why did I just hear about this? 😢 RIP
Jack wasn't evil, it was a combination of things. Isolation, recovering from alcoholism and the spirits that led to his psychotic break.
RIP Shelley Duvall (1949 - 2024) 🙏
Oh Kat! I love watching people react to this movie. Your timing of "where's the happy ending?" was impeccable. Just then they show Wendy interrupting the happy ending to the man on the bed. LOL. I laugh every time I re watch this.
This was much scarier than "The Shinning", a story of a hotel filled with pointy metal coffee tables.
This was an awesome reaction. Also Jack being in the picture again is likely meant to show that his soul was just another of the many ghosts that are stuck to haunt the hotel. All the people in that final picture are likely ghosts in the hotel.
Hi Kat, I just discovered your channel. Your facial expressions are perfectly entertaining, as are your very animated reactions and witty responses. This is what makes top tier reaction videos! It's so funny when you go from physically composed to instant karate defense pose, then slowly devolve position into holding your face. And your 4th wall gazes into the camera are hilarious.
9:35 This sequence cracks me up:
(Jack tells Wendy off)
Kat: "Oh my God! Wendy have a little self-respect!"
(pause as Kat leans in anticipating Wendy's response)
Wendy: "ok"
Disappointed Kat: "Alright"
8:22 The absolute greatest utterance of "Stop that!" I've ever been witness too.
☝️☝️ Reach out we have something to talk about🎁🎁..
I remember when I was about 11, telling my Mum, “So and so lent me The Shining!” She said, “What? Absolutely not! Oh, the book? Okay then” my Mum didn’t care what I read, as long as I was reading. This was also one of the few movies my dad didn’t let me watch until I was 14
I was 10 when this movie came out. I got to read the book, which had photos of movie in the centre. Scared the f'k out of me..
lol. The book is so much scarier than the movie was.
Kubrick always likes to leave questions in his films that he never explains. In fact in the days when he would discuss his films, which was rare, he would often say yes to any theory that was presented to him. To him they all are correct because the entire objective of the film was to make the viewer think about it.
He saw filmmaking as an artform of getting the audience so interested in something that they fill in the meaning in their own mind. It was more important what you DO NOT choose to tell the viewer because the entertainment is them having to think about it on their own, to not just absorb some predetermined truth. Once you give them the any idea what the answer is you shatter the beauty of the artform.
19:23 Best woman to watch a scary movie with ever, Kat. I don’t know how Annabelle or whatever your friend’s name in the corner is holds it together.
Stephen King hates this movie and the trick ending in particular, which he blamed Stanley Kubrick for not knowing was hackneyed. I think it means the Overlook Hotel was an entity and it devoured souls.
While not very scary, _Doctor Sleep_ (2019) is a terrific legacy sequel. Ewan McGregor plays an adult Danny and due to the enduring popularity of _The Shining_ , Warner Bros. spared no expense producing. A lot of horror films and also sequels skimp on their budgets but not this one.
Next scary movie? How about _Poltergeist_ (1982)?
I see Delbert Grady (note Delbert was the guy in the 1920's), Charles Grady was the guy in the 1970's (we can assume that both persons were just "one spirit" with two lives to live/die - reincarnation - both killed their wife/kids. Jack Torrence was not either Delberts, but a similar "soul" moving through time parallel to the Delberts, cursed to be reincarnated/captured by the Ghosts of the Hotel - to end up there in each life (and killing - most of the time? all of the time?).
One of the greatest movies, period . I am so glad you sat thru it!
Two wonderful details explicitly designed into the overlook hotel by Kubrick was nods to Native American designs in the architecture suggesting some sort potential spiritual energy to the place, secondly the hallways of the hotel are physically impossible to exist. Kubick designed too many turns and too many long hallways that would hit all interfere with eachother, and he even manipulated the timing of the wheel sounds, knowing all that would subtly trigger some problem with liminal spaces in our unconscious mind. Danny going through these impossible turns and corridors is designed to give the slightest effect of motion sickness and discomfort all foreshadowing the maze at the end.
Hiya Kat ☺️ And oh boy The Shining. This should get spicy in the comments. Steven King hated this adaptation of his novel as it veered away from the source material. That being said, it is a beautifully shot and extremely well acted film which is still Jack Nicholson and Shelly Duvall’s best performances on screen to date. Although Shelly Duvall was pushed to the brink of nervous exhaustion on set as Kubrick bullied her into hundreds of takes of her lines to get the delivery he wanted. Then what does the film mean? This has been hotly debated for decades.
With Kubrick, there are no accidents or errors in continuity in his films. Every scene, set and prop (even down to its placement) has a reason.
There is a quite good documentary on The Shinning called Room 237 where people try and figure out the hidden meanings to his films. You have everything from “It’s Kubrick’s take on how the Native American people suffered and where murdered for their land by American settlers” to “Its Kubrick’s coded confession that he faked all the moon landings for NASA using his knowledge of rear projection techniques developed for 2001: A Space Odyssey” just to name a few.
Bottomline is does it work as a horror movie? I think so but IF there wasn’t a King book in the first place perhaps🤔. As usual with a Kubrick film, you come away with more questions than answers 🙄
Fabulous reaction as always Kat and l look forward to the next one ☺️👍🏼
King softened his opinion of the movie eventually, saying basically that it was a good movie, but it was not his book.
@@johnsensebe3153 Ah l didn’t know that. Makes sense after King directed his one and only film Maximum Overdrive (which is a guilty pleasure watch of mine) and he is so embarrassed by it. Even to the point he’s apologised to its main star Emilio Estevez on how bad it is lol 😂
Whew! Great reaction!😉 I read this book in my 7th grade school library, probably couldn't now,lol.
Also, if you ever decide to do merch, a mug or a t-shirt with “Naaahhh!” on it would rock and represent your channel perfectly.
There is no one on RUclips that makes me laugh and entertains me as much as you do! Right from the get go with that car commercial comment during the opening credits! 😂😅
"Ok, alright, ok.. alright, ok -" 😆 "Critics have found it a bit repetitive" Oh Kat, so many gems, who are you?? 🤣
She doesn't even realize that when Jack is sitting at the typewriter the chair behind him keeps disappearing. STANLEY K was a directing genius.
Room 1408 is definitely a movie you should react to.
Very interesting and spooky movie
And is surprisingly the only good pg13 horror movie
You really needed a twin for the little doll standing in your corner! Great film and review!
The reason for the “good quality bathroom door” was because Jack Nicholson was once a volunteer firefighter and blew right through the prop doors made for the scenes of him breaking into the room and bathroom, so Stanley Kubrick had them replaced with real wooden doors.
Omg, you work hard, and therefore you clearly deserve the monetization more than any ytuber I've seen so far.
Tony is so polite calling Wendy "Mrs. Torrence". I always thought that was cute.
I found it odd Tony was calling his mother "Mrs. Torrence"
☝️☝️ Reach out we have something to talk about🎁🎁.
29:35 “Where’s the happy ending??” Literally two seconds later. 😂😂😂
Obligatory "TUESDAY" jump scare 😅👍
"critics have called it a bit repetitive" cracked me up, haha. another amazing reaction, tnx. love how you are on point with the plot twists, and your julia roberts smile doesn't hurt the overall experience, haha...
He did say he felt deja vu when he first went to the hotel. And the ghost said he had always been the caretaker of the hotel.
Kubrick was among the first directors to use really powerful classical and postmodern composers for his films. The composer for the super-scary stuff in the Shining is the now-famous Romanian Gyorgy Ligeti.
OMG that was the most hysterical viewing of the Shining I've ever seen. Subbed.
21:49 “Critics have called it a bit repetitive” holy lord that was a funny joke! 🤣
Only recently found your channel and got to admit you are so funny, excellent to re watch a classic movie I've watched numerous times and still enjoy your reaction. The red rum quote with the blood is a classic and made me lol. Got notifications on and keep up the good work. All the best from Scotland.
I love the twist of this movie… it turns out that Jack Torrence was the 1 who murdered his family who they were talking about at the beginning of the movie
"Haunted typewriter!"
LOL 😄
Great reaction, Kat!! As for the ending, Kubrick didn’t like to talk about the endings of his films too much since he felt it was more thought-provoking to leave them ambiguous, but there was an old phone conversation that leaked recently where he admitted that the ending of this movie was showing how basically the Hotel had consumed Jack and he became part of its endless cycle of evil reincarnation.
I mean, the film suggests he was already part of it - Jack talking about his crazy dejavu, conversation with Grady, the photograph.
@@HorySmokes This is also hinted at by the fact that the servant he talks to in the red bathroom is Delbert Grady. The man who we hear about at the beginning of the movie - the one who axe-murdered his family in the 1970s - is Charles Grady. It's not the same person. In the interpretation Kubrick hinted at, Charles might've been a reincarnation of Delbert in the same way that Jack might've been a reincarnation of the guy in the photo at the end. Basically, souls that are doomed to return life after life, get drawn to the hotel, and end up caught in a repeating cycle of temptation, madness, and murder.
Just the thought of that huge empty hotel with its hundreds of rooms and endless corridors, miles away from anywhere and snowed in is really scary just in itself. The thought makes you shudder.
Absolutely LOVE your reactions to jump scares and stuff in these movies.
☝️☝️ Reach out we have something to talk about🎁🎁.
Kubrick put Shelley Duvall and Nicholson both through absolute hell during this movie. Her continued mental breakdown and physical exhaustion throughout the movie are very real. Most notably, Kubrick made them run the the baseball bat scene something like 127 times. By the end of it they were both so at the end of their rope that Kubrick deemed it believable. Also, I subscribed to you today after watching like 10 of your more recent videos. Binge watched a bunch today. I have to say that compared to videos around the 10 month+ old mark, you have exponentially increased your ability to deal with your fear and jump scares. You're slowly but surely becoming a pro.
One of the scariest things for me was the typed manuscript. This man has gone so over the edge and has become so insane from visiting this hotel that he has spent loads of time typing _that_ .... I think this reveal is where Wendy finally understands that the Jack she once knew is gone for good. (And I can just picture some assistants/secretaries typing all those pages in 1980; that had to be tedious, LOL.)
Have to say, Stanley Kubrick took an effective novel and transformed it into one of the most tense and scary movies ever created. And some of it was his own ideas, like the typewriter and the little Grady twins popping up to say "Come and play with us".
Lastly, there are conspiracy theories about Mr. Kubrick (like "he filmed that fake moon landing in '69, dude!"), and especially about this film. You can become lost down a rabbit hole if you investigate. I'm not goin' in, it's too loco. For me it's all a bunch of nonsense-- but we live in a country where a chunk of the people seem to eat this stuff up and believe it. Now *that's* scary. :D
And the reason Wendy keeps paging through them is that part of her that thinks, "surely he can't have been crazy all this time, there must have been a point where he was okay", but no, it's dull boys all the way down.
@@Melancthon7332 Exactly!
it's a truly scary world in which most people WANT to live an illusion their entire lifetime.. because the things that the people who live in reality are telling them.. is too much for them to handle. *GOOD VIBES ONLY* crowd.
@@keetahbrough Wait, I don't understand the good vibes analogy there because I was speaking about negative folks who thrive on bad things and on ridiculous myths that are not true.
Weirdly, all those typed pages were made by Kubrick. He would work on them whenever he had a break.
Hi Kat! I'm a new-comer to your channel and have been binging your videos for the past couple weeks. Really love what you're doing and always interested to hear "what the real horror" of each of these movies are! Thanks for all the great content!
It's so funny how whenever you watch a horror film or just a film with horror in it you are nervous in expectation of horror through 100% of the runtime lmao.
Here's a little fun fact. Some of the exterior shots of the hotel is not the Stanley Hotel which is where this is supposed to take place. They actually used some exterior shots of the "Timberline Lodge" which is up on Mount Hood in Oregon which I have been to a hand full of times.
The child actor did not know he was in a scary movie. The director hid the scary aspects of the movie from him.
Not exactly behavior one would expect from Kubrick.
@@JakkFrost1 Especially given how he directed Shelley Duvall in the same movie.
He is now a professor of biology.
@@PassingMaxQ good for him and all his success. You also.
I always wondered about this. Like how did he not know? Talking all creepy like Tony, carrying a knife, waking up Shelly and she freaks out and grabs him to hide in the bathroom. Telling him to run and hide. Jack Nicholson chasing after him with an axe, all the shots of him silent screaming, etc. I think even as a kid having to act all those parts would be scary.
The actual ending is explained by saying the person in the picture of the 1921's 4th of July ball is a previous hotel employee and Jack's character just so happens to be the reincarnation of that employee. Which is why the Grady tells him "he's always been the caretaker" like as if he was purposely filling his head with false information to make him out to be that employee from back then who happens to resemble Jack.
I think this is an allegorical film. I believe Jack (and the hotel) represent societal evil and cruelty throughout the generations. Wendy and Halloran represent the victims of such evil and Danny is the younger, smarter generation who can outwit these evils.
I think that's what makes Jack's character so deeply unsettling. He represents a deep, very real, human evil. An evil that seems inherent to the human species.
Also one of the most harrowing depections of domestic abuse I've ever seen in a film. Nicholson is great, of course, but this would not have worked without Shelley Duvall's performance. She is amazing and crucial as a foil to his terrorism.
This is my favorite film of all time and this has been one of my favorite watch-throughs of it and I've been binging them lately, so thanks for the good work!
Where’s the happy ending. 😅😅 followed by that scene. That was so funny. Loved. Loved the reaction!!❤️
I looked through about 50 comments and didnt see the "right" answer to your question, so here it is... Most people are saying the picture shows Jack's soul had been captured by the Overlook, but Kubrick said specifically it's to indicate that Jack has reincarnated. The 1921 picture shows him as one of the previous caretakers of the hotel, which is furthered both when he says he feels deja vu there and when Grady tells him he's always been the caretaker.
Love the Berlioz and Bartok snippets in the soundtrack. They fit perfectly.
This is the first video of yours I’m watching and I have to say, I love how often you jump to conclusions. Knowing the movie, it sets us (your audience) up to really enjoy the payoffs.
Opening credits scene was filmed in Glacier National Park in Montana. The Overlook outside shots are of the Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood in Oregon.
I used to watch Chico and the Man years ago and Scatman Crothers was a very good character in that, he also played a good character in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Saturday morning cartoon, Hong Kong Phoey
The Shining is one of my all time favorite films. So glad you did this vid! Kubrick was all about symbolism. This film has been dissected by many. You could dive Deep down a rabbit hole with this film.
In the novel, Jack is much more sympathetic and his fall into insanity is more night-and-day because of it.
I wish they would have portrayed that better in the movie ,it would make it way more dynamic.
@@lucianaromulus1408 Agreed! Would've made it more tragic Jack was murderous and evil.
@@Bazzkorg It's not meant to be tragic though. It's meant to be foreboding.
@@Eidlones Why not both? I mean, King managed to make it both foreboding and tragic. It sometimes really feels like Kubrick's main goal for this movie was to throw up a middle finger to King's story. I've never understood that.
@@mclizzard2928 Cause he had a different vision of what he wanted it to be? It's not like he was going out of his way to piss off King or anything.
its a great movie but it shouldnt have cost the actress who played wendy her sanity and career, what the director and everyone put her through was shocking
I'm not sure if it cost her her career. She has over 40 more actress credits on imdb after this movie was made in 1980., including Popeye, and Roxanne, which were quite big hits. She's suffered from diabetes, and took quite a while off, but her last credit is from 2023.
You probably aren't going back and reading comments on this one but I will post this anyway. The follow up movie to this one called "Doctor Sleep" is worth watching too. It came out in 2019 and stars Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Ferguson. It is the story of Danny after he grows up. The end of the movie occurs back at the same creepy hotel. :)
TUESDAY
Probably the greatest jump scare in history. And so hilarious. 😂
@BrinMara I saw this at the theatre and believe me, it really _WAS_ a jump scare on the big screen (along w/ the surround sound).
I've watched several Reactors watching this and everyone jumps at TUESDAY
Your reactions are absolutely amazing. First class awesome. I discovered your Jaws reaction earlier today and became an instant fan.
You have the best movie reactions on YT bar none.
I think Mr. Hollaron should have used his "shining" ability to save Danny and Wendy. But if he did that then we wouldn't have Danny and Wendy using their own street smarts and survival skills to make it in the end.
The theory is that Jack is reincarnation of the caretaker from the July 4th 1921 ball photo and or his soul was absorbed into the hotel.
You're hilarious. I don't think that I laughed so hard as I did on your reaction than any reactor so far. Keep it up.