The Shining.
I always knew of it, and had a general idea about the plot and stuff, but I did not know how absolutely crazy effed up that movie is. I loved every minute of it and wish more movies could be so messed up. The crazy music…then absolutely no music…then crazy again.
Blood Hallway!
Dead Bodies!
Normal and nothing.
Weird music.
Tricycles.
I love it.
You forgot the best part:
REDRUM!!
I’m glad you liked it. It’s my favorite King book, and though it’s not an extremely faithful adaptation, it’s still a perfectly cromulent Kubrick movie.
Hey, have you seen A Clockwork Orange?
It’s really easy to get obsessed with that movie. There is SO MUCH going on in it that never quite reaches the surface, but which contributes to the pins-and-needles, uncomfortable feel of it.
There are a number of scenes in the movie which show impossible dimensions and architecture, but which are treated perfectly normally. And it’s all done on purpose.
The whole thing is just so off-kilter and bizarre feeling.
Just so you know, ‘The Shining’, was a tipping point for me. It was the threshold for graphic violence, in my world. No more horror films. Nothing involving too much (and it’s a low bar!), graphic murdering, raping, torturing.
That scene, where they show the elevators doors open and a tsunami of blood comes gushing out? Yeah, that scene appeared, suddenly and unexpectedly, in my dreams, for months afterward. It continued with lessening frequency for years after.
That was it for me. No more.
(Dammit, I’ll probably have the dream again, now that I’ve mentioned it!)
Well, I’m sure most of it was, but I’ve seen this get streteched into “look at the character walking down the hallway toward the office - he turns left - the next shot takes place in the office and the door is on the wrong side, suggesting a deep surreality to counterpoint the underlying metaphor…” Sometimes the geography of a scene doesn’t make sense just because the character looked better walking down the hallway instead of up the hallway, and since the hallway scene and the office scene were shot weeks apart at different sites, nobody noticed or much cared.
I appreciate why you were surprised. Usually the blood gets off at the second floor.
The original “teaser” trailer that I saw in the theater. Creeped me right out!
Ran across this one today, which celebrates Kubrick’s love of zero point perspective.
I have to include this trailer for a heartwarming family film called “Shining”.
When I finally watched The Shining, I felt like I’d already seen it. Pretty much every scene in the movie has been parodied by various TV shows and movies.
I’m in the tiny, tiny minority of folks that doesn’t have an uncritical love of the flick. I really enjoyed the psychological suspense/thriller part of it, but for me, the supernatural parts were unnecessary, tacked on, and distracted me from the film. If it had just been Jack Nicholson falling off the wagon and going crazy from isolation, it would’ve been nearly perfect.
Also, it needed about 97% less little kid, but I’m allergic to little kids.
“You’ve *always *been the caretaker.” 
The Shining and *One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest *are jointly responsible for my deep and abiding love for Jack Nicholson. Even at the tender-ish age of 18 (when he was 65), I would have let that man do anything he wanted to me. He’s 75 now, and I *still *would. Not that I’m his type, but a girl can dream right?
I think I like *The Shining *so much because Wendy is such a nag, and I get quite a bit of schadenfreudian enjoyment out of her fear. Especially the part where Jack is beating the door in with an axe. I can’t get enough of that scene.
I was an early horror fan, and saw it when I was about eight or nine. Didn’t get what the big deal was. The scene with the old lady was pretty freaky, but other than that, I was pretty unimpressed.
Saw it again at 19. o_O There’s that kind of subtle horror that really just gets under your skin and won’t let go.
The miniseries version, starring the other guy from Wings, is supposedly more faithful (can’t say for sure as I never read it) but no where near as good.
I was 10 when that movie came out. I saw on it cable about two years later. As a 12 year old I really didn’t understand what was going on, but I knew I was petrified of Jack.
If you really want to blow your mind, look up the American Indian alternative interpretation. Probably a lot of hooey, bit fun to think about all the same.
The blood usually gets off on the 3rd floor 
Damn it, ninja’d by Bryan Ekers. And probably with the correct floor too