I have questions about the movie, The Shining?

Question

What the f**lk is up with that hallway where blood starts gushing out of the doors, and begins flooding the hall? I've read articles and articles concerning The Shining, and nothing mentions that hallway..That scene always scared me..
But now, since I'm not a little kid anymore, I find the scene to be stupid and completely irrelevant. What's the point of that?

Seriously, the people in the novel and movie act like there's something seriously wrong with Overlook Hotel, when..There isn't. So a cooty old butler chopped up his family because of cabin fever. Big deal..
That's nowhere as tragic as The Amityville murders. And how is it that ONE event inspires the presence of all the people who used to be there?

What's up with all the people in the ballroom? One guy completely offs his family, and now everyone who went to the hotel is a ghost? What gives?

I've just been too lazy to read the whole history on it on Wikipedia, so enlighten me, please.

I used to love this movie as a little kid, but after seeing it on AMC? I don't know. I'm kind of turned off..What's up with the kid? Is it just PURE coincidence that this guy D_ick(In case yahoo censors it) has the same powers as Danny? What's up with that?

That's like freakin Michael Myers meeting up with Jason Vorhees at a bus stop!

What's up with the ghost of that freaky guy dressed in a dog costume? The only bad thing that happened as far as I know, was that Grady killed his family..What, it's not like he ran through the hotel killing everyone too. What's up with all the ghosts?

And what the hell did Danny ever do to be chased by Jack with a damn axe?

I don't think I like this movie anymore..I'm gonna read the novel. Of course, I love the good old classics of horror. The Thing, Alien, Halloween, Psycho, American Psycho, Dawn of the Dead...

So don't assume I'm some kid who doesn't respect good old fashioned horror. As a matter of fact, the only MODERN horror movies I like are Rob Zombies Halloween, Wolf Creek, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

And it looks like they don't have motivation but..They all had a motivation.Leatherface was a retarded bullied kid who let his rage get to him, and let himself be puppied by his abusive family, inspired by Ed Gein. Micheal Myers, depending on which generation you look at, was either someone who came from a bad household, and bad school life, to someone who was cursed to kill his own family. The Thing was a parasite, and like all parasites, it wanted to feed off of the lesser species. And finally, Norman Bates was an incest mama's boy..So was Jason Vorhees, excluding the incest part.

So what's the motivation in The Shining? I don't get any of it..

Answer 1

The movie is a piece of sh*t.



It's the hotel that is evil. And it wasn't caused by the single incident of the "cooty old butler" killing his family. The hotel has held on to all of the evil and perverse energy of the guests over its decades of its existence (like "that freaky guy dressed in a dog costume"). The hotel also holds the spirits of the people who have died there over the decades of its existence. The hotel was evil long before the "cooty old butler" died there. The "cooty old butler" killed his family because the hotel drove him to do it. Just like the hotel drove Jack Torrance to try to kill *his* family. The "ghost" of the "cooty old butler" was just the entity the hotel chose to use to talk to Jack Torrance.



The hotel didn't really want Jack Torrance. The hotel really wanted Danny and Danny's power. The hotel could only get Danny's power if Danny died in the hotel or on the hotel grounds and Danny's spirit was trapped there. The hotel used Jack Torrance to kill Danny, by turning Jack against his family. That's why Danny was being chased by Jack with a "damn axe": not because of what Danny did, but because of what Danny was.



Like I said, the movie is a piece of sh*t, and left the audience completely in the dark about all of that.



Read the book.

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Answer 2

We get these same questions all the time! Who are the twins? Why the blood? Who lets Jack out of the freezer? All I can say is what I always say:



In 1980, on the day the film was released, Stephen King, the author of the novel, had a letter of apology published in newspapers all over the world. In the letter, King said that he had been naive when he sold the film rights to Stanley Kubrick, allowing Kubrick to take a very, very scary story about an ancient evil entity that lives in an old hotel and a little boy with extraordinary powers, and turn it into a muddled tale about a drunk who goes crazy and tries to murder his family.



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As far as who the twin girls are, they are the children of Grady, the last caretaker who DID murder his family and then killed himself. The blood in the halls? Just Kubrick using special effects. The man in the doggie costume was a guest at a long-forgotten bal masque (costume party) who abandoned his elderly lover, who committed suicide (the dead lady in the bathtub), in order to become the sex slave to the hotel's owner.



Or some damn thing.



Because of the discrepancies between the two stories (King's version and Kubrick's) King eventually struck a deal with ABC-TV. In the deal, King would write some original stories to be made into TV mini-series, like "The Storm of the Century" and "Rose Red." In exchange, King was finally allowed to maintain creative control of two projects - his long awaited film version of "The Stand" and a true-to-the-book version of "The Shining."



You should read "The Shining" and "The Stand" and any other King books you want, and then try watching the film versions that Stephen King wrote himself (screenplays).



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118460/ The Shining (TV)



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108941/ The Stand (TV)

Answer 3

Are the other two answerers insane?

This is one of the best horror films ever made. Kubrick was a genius. It's widely acknowledged that this is one case where the movie out *shines* the book.

Oh, there are some idiots on yahoo answers – not you, but aladdinwa. I would love to see what sort of movies he thinks are good if he thinks the shining is a piece of ****. No, he’s TALKING ****, so don’t believe the supercilious drivel he has come out with.



There is this excellent blog about the shining which will answer and exceed all your questions. It's great.

http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-you-may-or-may-not-have-seen.html



Finally, i think some people need to realise that " a film is not a book" and they would do well to remember that the next time they watch a masterpiece and call it **** just because it differs from the story they have read about.