The Shining (1980) KILL COUNT

Welcome to Killer Cow where we

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the victims of all our favorite horror movies. I'm James Agee, nice, and today we're watching the brilliant movie released in

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. I don't know how else to start this episode than by admitting that I feel a little intimidated about doing so. The Shining is easily one of the biggest horror films of all time, although it had a mixed response when it was first released, even earning a pair of Razzie nominations for worst actress and worst director. Quickly reappraised by critics and frequently found at or near the top of lists of the best horror films of all time.

It is even preserved by the Library of Congress based on Stephen King's third novel that was published in 1977. The big screen adaptation of The Shining was co-written, produced and directed by one of the most influential filmmakers who ever lived, Stanley Kubrick or Kubrick. I've heard of both ways. Kubrick's filmography is basically a parade of classics with recognizable masterpieces, almost as acclaimed as they are diverse in genre, so to speak. was a great craftsman at seriously underestimating something, his influence is everywhere in cinema and popular culture in general, so it's no surprise that his only horror film is consistently considered one of the best, especially since it was based on a Stephen King story.

King, simply singular and acclaimed in his own artistic field, didn't like Kubrick's treatment of his story, and while his criticism has moderated in recent years, to be honest, I think the guy likes everything today. in day. Last I heard, he still preferred the version of the 1997 ABC miniseries, which he wrote the script for McGarrett to direct. I'm only mentioning that version so you know I can't cover it at least not anytime soon. The four and a half hour runtime gives me some respite, but King is in the minority when it comes to his assessment of this film The Shining is one of the most common answers I hear when I ask people what their favorite horror movie is. and while some may find that answer cliché, I'm not surprised that so many people have been affected by this beautiful and haunting epic film.

I'm going to try my best to do the movie justice in this episode, but keep in mind that this is probably the most dissected and analyzed death

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movie I've ever done. I mean, there's an entire damn documentary called Room 237 that covers people's interpretations and theories about the film, some of which link it to the genocide of Native Americans, others to the Holocaust, and one to a conspiracy theory that claims that Stanley Kubrick helped fake the moon landing. I'll tell you what I can about the shine, but I'll barely do it. By scratching the surface, I can at least tell you how many people died in it, so let's get to the deaths.

The film begins with gliding shots filmed in Montana's Glacier National Park as Shining's main title theme plays. This foreboding anthem of synth sounds was composed. by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Alkyne and the melody turns eerie as a single yellow car heads to the isolated Overlook Hotel in the Rocky Mountains now, while King was inspired to write The Shining during an off-season stay at the Stanley Hotel in Colorado these extensive exterior shots to choose the Timberline Lodge in Oregon, however, the close-ups of the hotel's exterior show were later done on a set built in the United Kingdom, so in real life there is not a single hotel around that you can call The Shining hotel, especially since the The interiors were custom-made sets based on various hotel interiors around the world.

Jack Torrance, played by Jack Nicholson and possibly his most famous role despite having a career full of them, meets with the hotel manager, Stuart the Old Man, before his new job. the winter caretaker during the off season, this weirdo Bill Watson is there too, but he doesn't really say or do anything, maybe he dreamed of meeting Jack and discovered that he had that look. Very rarely does one encounter the haunting, haunted fellow, Jack, a teacher and aspirant. The writer's omen Asher will have no problem being isolated in the hotel during the coming winter. Well, then it turns out that's exactly what I'm looking for.

Lots of time to write. It really drives me crazy. You know, it's not even there. He becomes disheartened when he finds out that the last guy who had the job, a guy named Grady, had a little mental breakdown and took it out on his wife and his two daughters, they went crazy and

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ed his family with a axe. That's what history ordered. It bodes well for Jack's family, who will be staying at the hotel with him through the winter. His wife Wendy, played by Shelley Duvall, tries to get his son Danny excited, but he is quite uneasy because Tony doesn't want to go.

Oh, who's Tony? He's Danny's. little friend who lives in his mouth, well, how come you don't want to go? He just doesn't want it when he leaves. Tony shows Danny why he doesn't want to go in a series of psychic images that include a river of blood. coming out of the hotel elevator and some creepy girls gasp after Danny's little scare in the bathroom. He is treated by an unnamed doctor who gives him a heavy dose of backstory, courtesy of Wendy. Wendy mentions that some time ago her husband Jack came home drunk. and accidentally dislocated Danny's shoulder by pulling him out of a mess with too much force.

It is something that is done 100 times with a child or on the streets. This particular occasion has simply been because there is too much strengthening. Danny is injured. The doctor seems, rightly, concerned about the situation. possible abuse, but Wendy says there was a silver lining: she got Jack to stop drinking alcohol. The Torrance family takes a long trip to the Overlook Hotel on the last day of the season, where Stuart Oldman and Bill Watson are there to give them a tour of the facility as soon as Jack is done with that Playgirl. Anyway, the tour leads to The Torrances and the viewer throughout the hotel in one long, uninterrupted store and close examination of the design reveals that some of it simply does not make sense, the best example I can show.

What you're saying is that this window and Stuart Oman's office shouldn't logically be there. If you follow Jack as he walks towards it, you can see that there's actually a hallway back there, but once Jack enters the office, there's a window in that wall that looks outside of logic. The design of the Overlook is the subject of countless theories, and if you're interested, you can watch a video about it by Rob Eggar of Callate of Learning. It's quite interesting and the prevailing theory as to why the hotel plan doesn't make sense. It's because it adds to the surreal, nightmarish quality of the setting, you'll find that people are quite reluctant to say that any apparent mistakes in a Kubrick film are unintentional.

He was that particular filmmaker. Jack and Wendy are shown their apartment inside the hotel which has two bedrooms, a kitchen area and a bathroom, well it's very homey. They are also shown the giant hedge maze outside, as well as the snow cat we'll have to use when the white stuff covers the grounds inside the game room with a view. Danny plays darts for a while before meeting potential new friends, oh that's so good for you Danny, now you'll have other kids to play with, no, never mind, they're leaving, Pam, that's going to

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Danny's self-esteem. this kid.

The tour continues in the ballroom where Almond mentions that the bar is empty of all alcohol during the off-season. Jack says it's fine, although we don't drink. The Torrances are introduced to the hotel's head chef, Dick Hallorann, played by Scatman Crothers, and he takes Wendy and Danny on a tour. From his huge kitchen after showing them the freezer full of meat and the pantry full of dry goods, Halloran offers Danny an ice cream psychic gift, hell yeah doctor, I want some ice cream, that's what happens with a couple of bowls of ice cream, Halloran tells him.

Danny, how she was able to talk to him brain to brain, something he and his grandmother used to do all the time while she combs her hair and his shiny cock says that the titular psychic power of the story is shared by all kinds of people, although some are not. they recognize him or recognize him Danny says that his mouth partner Tony told them that the Overlook is really scary and Dick admits that he has some bad juju thanks to his past that has left some sort of lingering presence here, you know, Duncan, something's up If you stop chasing this self-label now you may have heard of Stanley Kubrick's tendency to receive a ridiculous amount of labels from his actors.

I always said you know anyway for Stanley it eliminates the main problem for the actor, which is the pressure, you know it's not going to stop until it's exactly the way you want it either bad or indifferent it's going to be okay we're talking about dozens and dozens of takes even if they did everything perfectly on the first few tries he'll do 60 someone try to see what happens even if he takes five it's fantastic the reason I mention this now is because this ice cream scene had one take not sure which Kubrick made, eighty-eight or one hundred and forty-eight bead tanks differ in the number of Scatman Crothers. that he was more of a musician than a trained actor couldn't stand it although apparently six-year-old Danny Lloyd was fine.

Scatman said Stanley, I can't do it anymore. Danny was there, so we didn't feel like it. you were torturing him and therefore we could do it and not feel like we were abusing a minor before his conversation was over. Danny asked Halloran what was in room 237, something Tony told them about after a brief shark scare. Halloran tells Danny that there is nothing there. that room, but stay away from it anyway A month later, the Overlook Hotel is a lonely place, but at least Danny is making good use of all the empty space by riding his big wheel around an iconic low-to-the-ground Steadicam shot.

The seventh film to use the new Steadicam stabilizing tool that allows the camera operator to get smooth shots without the usual shake of a handheld camera for glare, the Steadicam was operated by Garrett Brown, the guy who invented it and its long, fluid takes. tracking are part of this film's memorable iconography, this scene also has impressive sound design as Danny rides across carpets and hardwood floors, unlike Danny Jack, who doesn't make the most of his time here, his typewriter she was left unattended while throwing a tennis ball around the hotel when she grows up. Bored playing wall ball, he checks out a model of the hedge maze that Wendy and Danny are currently running in the maze.

It was an impressive feat for the production and it was so big that the cast and crew ended up getting really lost in We never could figure out where we were, we were always lost, we always had to scream and have someone come up with a diagram and get us out of there. . In fact, Stanley challenged that it was too easy and actually lost. We challenged him and put him there. It was a Saturday morning and I couldn't find my way out. Also impressive is this aerial shot of the maze model showing Wendy and Danny walking through the center.

This was the only take that was. They did it on camera to do this, building the center of the maze near a tall apartment building and then shooting it down from the roof while Shelley Duvall and Danny Lloyd walked through it and then combining that shot perfectly into an aerial shot of the model at the end. The result shows how big the hedge maze is overlooking it, who would definitely not want to get lost there on a cold winter night. Toothache isn't sure how many days or weeks it has been, but at least Jack seems to have finally found some. of the writing impulse good for him not so good for Wendy who stops by for a chat only to find an angry Jack yelling at her for distracting ham cheese that's how he's sober she agrees to leave him alone but he won't let her go without one last verbal kick in the ass why don't you start right now get out of here okay okay Wendy you should probably go out with Danny anyway because he's getting really lonely riding his tricycle and is considering getting to room 237 and having a play date with Grady Ghost girl two days later, a big snowstorm finally brought the wrath of winter to the Overlook and something tells me Jack isn't too excited to go shovel the sidewalks, but damn, can that ?

The guy wears a turtleneck as the days go by, the storm gets so bad that the hotel's phone lines go down, leaving a radio as the only connection to the outside world, but it's fun because when you use it you can say repeatedly. It's over, boy, this storm is really something, isn't it over? Danny hitting the hallway finally gets him into trouble when he turns a corner to find the ghosts of Grady's Slaughter Daughters waiting for him at the end, come play with us. Danny, sure, yeah, play what I don't think my mom will let me play Bloody Ax forthere for so long.

Sorry, things are getting weird fast at this hotel, although Jack says he's a big fan of the place. I wish we could stay here. answer Danny finally breaks his promise to Halloran and entered room 237 while his father takes us to sleep at his desk haha ​​he's dreaming about being a dog how cute dinner kills you with Danny oh no it was about murdering his family Danny She returns to her parents sporting a new bruise on her neck and Wendy immediately accuses Jack of being responsible for it, why would she jump to a conclusion like that? I killed you and Danny.

Oh yeah, he's getting too strong in the good and also the thing about his shoulder, it doesn't matter, she runs. Away from Jack and as he feels unfairly accused, she takes out his frustrations by dancing freestyle in the hallway. Hey, man, why don't you pull up a chair over to this empty bar and take a load off those crazy feet? Damn shoes sell your soul. For a beer you say well, I've got good news for you, Jack, this is Lloyd and souls are legal. Tender by his accounts, Jack grabs a bourbon on the rocks and throws away his five-month-old chip in one go, which makes him feeling very relaxed to the point where he calls Wendy a sperm bank and a bitch and complains about how he won.

I don't forgive him for hurting Danny that time, when Wendy finds him sitting at the bar, alone, and tells him that the drink off Danny's neck came from a woman in an upstairs room with mushrooms, it wasn't a dog, you know. what damn room was it? Fun fact in the book, the room number was 217, the same room King stayed in at the Stanley Hotel when he was inspired to write the glossy Timberline Lodge that the Oregon hotel used for the wide exterior shots he requested to be The room number was changed since they actually had a room 217 but not a 237 inside room 237 Jack finds a woman sitting in the bathtub and she is naked.

I'm Jax Mobley, blooming emotion, but don't be too cocky, mr. Torrence because things aren't always as they seem, for example, this young and lucky girl is actually an old Nike, which wouldn't necessarily be so bad if it weren't for all that rotten skin back there, oh when that laughs, yeah , do not come. Meanwhile, she laughs at me from her amazing home in Miami. Dick Hallorann has a premonition that leaves him with a terrified look on his face. This wordless close-up of Dick being scared was another one that Kubrick filmed for an ungodly amount of time. The number I heard resulted in Scatman actually crying, poor fellow.

His final film. Terror doesn't come from an obsessive director, although it is rather the result of some kind of psychic connection with Danny, which causes Boy Wonder to lie in bed that night. and he sees pictures of Redrum written on a door, well that's not so hopeful and the elevator full of blood again, that'll scare you. Jack returns to his apartment and tells Wendy that he didn't see anything in room 237 haha, Jack, don't do it. Ashamed of your interest in blame, Wendy says it might be a good idea for them to leave the hotel and go home, but Jack doesn't like the sound of that and chastises her for even suggesting that she leave. he gets angry and feels sorry for himself in the kitchen before turning the corner and discovering that the hotels are throwing a pity party for him;

It's an elegant evening in the ballroom where Lloyd, the waiter, says drinks are on the house, his money isn't worth it. Here, well, some of them are on the house and some of them are on Jack. Oh no, better. Ask Jeeves how to get the corduroy cooler out. The waiter takes Jack to the bathroom to clean them up nice and proper. And there he is? Jack learns that this guy is Delbert Grady, the former caretaker of the Overlook. What was that guy's deal? You cut off your wife and daughter. That's right, he was the ax guy, but Grady denies the charge and tells Jack that he's the hotel's caretaker.

I've always been the caretaker, you should know, sir, I've always been here, wow, that's some heavy shit. Delbert Grady tells Jack that Danny is trying to bring Dick Hallorann to the Overlook, although he definitely does not refer to Dick by his first name and says that Jack better make sure Danny stops misbehaving. He can't run around the hotel with a pickle in his mouth. You know, cool, his daughters tried that shit once and you know what Grady did about it. I corrected them, sir, and when my wife. She tried to stop me from doing my duty.

I corrected her, oh damn lord. Torrance is pulling the red notebook out of him because it's right on time. The first thing to correct is the hotel radio. I give you an F radio boom in his apartment. Wendy is planning her and Danny's escape when she hears her son shouting at her from her room in a strange voice. I've always found that little son of a bitch immensely terrifying while he's screaming like that and while he's kicking his Tony thing into overdrive, he's going to release this load. These people need the prosecutor's lifeblood, but with the phone and radio off, Dick has no choice but to take a plane to Denver and rent a snow cat to prowl to the hotel.

Wendy grabs a baseball bat to go see if her husband keeps acting like a fool, well they can't find it anywhere, but now you can finally read what a masterpiece it is. been writing, yeah let's see what it's about, seems too existential for my taste oh man and can you say repetitive? Hire an editor, guys, Jack Vines, Wendy spying on your work, but he's not exactly in the mood for whatever constructive criticism he's in. However, I'm in the mood to discuss the way you're raising your kids. I think they have some very definite ideas about what should be done with Danny and I'd like to know what they are.

She tells them that they should take Danny to a doctor, but Jack simply mocks her and yells at her again for interfering with his important job of caring for her. He becomes increasingly unhinged as these doctors climb the stairs in another scene that was filmed a ridiculous amount of times. I read that Kubrick did one hundred and twenty-seven takes. It was just one part of filming The Shining that left Shelley Duvall in a total mess. Kubrick was an accomplished filmmaker and, according to my research, six-year-old Danny Lloyd thought he was a cool guy during production, but his relationship with Shelley Duvall was borderline abusive to elicit a frenetic, hysterical performance from her, pushing her toward her emotional women being mean to her on set and having crew members similarly turn their backs on her and give her clumps of hair on the windowsill, okay, I don't sympathize with her.

Shelley, many candid moments between them were captured on camera by Kubrick's daughter Vivian, who filmed a short behind-the-scenes documentary early in production, oh come on, what do you mean shooting video? When you do it, you must look desperate, Shelley. you're just wasting everyone's money since the production took the better part of a year the long months of stress ended up affecting the Duval house from May to October I really had health problems and no now I'm never in favor of abusing actors for the sake of a performance, but it's obviously worth listening to Shelley Duvall's own words on the subject, if it hadn't been for that internal barrage of ideas and sometimes the emergence of heads together, it wouldn't have turned out so well how it came out, so it bothered me.

Stanley sometimes because he pushed her and me but why do you want to do this to me? How can you do this to me? We had the same end in mind, only sometimes we differed in our means and in the end the means met. And I find that I really respect him and really like him both as a person and as a director. I mean, I'm also surprised by the record I've made. The acting is perfect, it really sells how scary the hotel and her are. Jack's husband yells at Wendy to give him her bat and promises not to hurt her with it.

I'm not going to hurt you. I'm just going to break your brain. Oh, he'll hit your brain and painlessly. I guess a Grand Slam slugger. She's not, but she still manages to land a blow to Jack's head that knocks him down the stairs. She drags his sorry ass through the kitchen to the pantry, where she locks him before arming herself with a knife when she tells him she's going to take him away. Danny in the sno-cat back to civilization, he tells her that he has something else coming up. Turns out this crazy son of a bitch went ahead and corrected the snowcat: oh poor kitty, later that day Jack wakes up from a sack map next to a snack. he joins Delbert Grady's voice on the other side of the door.

Grady tells Jack that he has to get going and set his meddling family right, and when Jack promises he will, he is rewarded with the sound of the door opening, while Stephen King's novel is Cooper's unquestionably supernatural film. for the most part it's a little more ambiguous, a lot of the things that happen could be explained as a result of Jack's psyche breaking, but a ghost opening the door is one of the strongest pieces of evidence for all of this. It's happening in reality when Dick crosses the road to the hotel. Danny gets creepier and creepier, grabbing a knife like a little Mikey Myers and writing Redrum on the door and lipstick and checking out what Redrum really means.

Wendy, it's murder in reverse and with a corn. clean arm, huh, Jack starts acting his way into the apartment, causing Wendy and Danny to flee to the bathroom, although Danny is able to climb out the small window and have a fun time sliding down the snowbank. Wendy just can't get out. and then she's on the back of the most enduring movies, an iconic scene that took three whole days to film and that had to be Helle, I'm Shelley Duvall, since her character is a screaming mess all the time, but no There is no one watching this video who hasn't done it.

I haven't seen a parody of this scene one way or another, even if it's just a riff on Jack's Ed McMahon quote that was actually improvised by Nicholson on set. Here's Johnny Wendy cutting off Jack's hand before his deadly game is stopped because they hear Dick Snowcat arriving. outside Oh, Jack, you better go out and correct Dick Hallorann some more, who has traveled so far and wanders so urgently around the empty hotel yelling an offer of help into the air of the body, son of a bitch, the scatman has fallen, friends, I repeat the scatman. is below, which is an invention of the movie because of the way Dick Hallorann survives on the ship, he's also alive at the beginning of the doctor sleep book, so I'm curious to see what they do with that in the doctor sleep movie.

Jack finds Danny hiding and chases him. him as Wendy runs around the hotel and finally sees some creepy things for herself, including something she's not supposed to see, hey, no girls allowed, ladies only guys and naked guys, go hang out with that dead penis from there or with this useless bloody-headed ghost guy. I guess if you're a big fan of cobwebs and skeletons then it sure is cool. Wendy's last experience in the ghost hotels. Greatest Hits is another take on elevators spilling blood, which is fine by me. No shot is ever less incredible. Jeff chases after Danny. outside in the unpleasant winter weather, he then follows the young man into the snowy hedge maze which as we all know is a huge scary maze, but Domane tour tour is a bright young man and realizes that he might have a chance to get out .

Here alive if he can cover his tracks in the snow, when Jack reaches the end of the tracks, he gets confused and stumbles away, giving Danny the chance to back up and head towards the exit. Danny's clever plan works and he escapes the maze when Jack arrives. Danny turns more and more and reaches his mother and she takes him to Dick Snowcat, which luckily hasn't been corrected by Jack yet, no offense Jack, you're just not that good of a mechanic, listen to the vehicle start up and drive away and screams uselessly II into the air as his family escapes from the Overlook Hotel Jack collapses against the snow and has seen the next day dead in the frozen maze in a terrifying little sick Jack the film ends with a photo of a party hanging in the Wall lookouts, the guy front and center of the group is Mr.

Jack Torrance and South, although the photo was dated 1921, I guess Grady was right. Jack has always been the caretaker here. How many people can a haunted hotel kill using a repeat alcoholic with an axe? Let's find out and get to the numbers. Wendy, no. I'm going to hurt you, I'm just going to count the numbers, only two people died in the glare, at least in the events we witnessed, those two victims were men, I mean, Dick made us blueberry pie and with a duration of 144 minutes that remained. us with one death on average every 72 minutes. I'll give the coolest golden chainsaw to death: dick hallorann because he has that great jump scare and he's a guy who gets killed with an axe, no wrist machete for this one, though because despite Jack's death.

The face is a little silly, it's still a good ending to the movie and that's it. The Shining came out in

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and its sequel, Dr. Sleep hits theaters in just a few weeks, on November 8th. It is based on the 2013 novel by Stephen King and directedby Mike Flanagan, the guy who brought us the harshness and haunting of Hill House. He couldn't be more excited until next time. m James age Indies there has been the death dress thank you very much for watching this additional killer boy. I want to thank some sponsors like Matthew Barr Adele Evan took John Doe dirty ski operator Thomas Hay DeLand Christopher Nichols It's still October, which means you can still pre-order the Dead Meat Collector's Edition of In Search of Darkness the documentary 80s horror info in the description below how you feel about glitter is one of your favorites or do you think it's overrated thank you all be good people