They blew the budget on an elevator full of corn syrup and red dye #3 
Roger Ebert just picked The Shining as one of his Great Movies series. Interesting review, found here.
We have buckets of juice?! This party will be off the hook! /Buster
Somebody tell me the significance of the scene where a guy was getting a hum job from a giant rabbit. Man, talk about a non sequitur.
In the book, there’s a subplot about the guy who designed and/or owned the Overlook. Although married, he used to get his jollies by seducing and then tormenting other people, of either gender. The guy in the dogsuit was his last boyfriend. During a big costume party at the overlook, he publically humiliated the guy by making him dress up in the dog costume and act like a dog in front of all the other guests. After all the other shit the guy made him go through, he snapped and, IIRC, killed the architect.
(Haven’t read the book since high school, so I might be mis-remembering the details.)
This thread isn’t too old, and I weighed the import of my post before revivifying it. I hope I judged right.
The high definition movie channel was having an all day “Kubrick-a-thon” several days ago, so I recorded the one movie of his I had never seen: The Shining. I watched it for the first time last night.
Wow! What a stunner. High-def was seemingly designed for Kubrick’s gorgeously-filmed movies. I’m not one of those who yell at movie screens, but this one had me screaming, “Bash him with the bat, you stupid bint! That’s the way! Hit him again while he’s down!”
Is the following a Kubrickian signature scene? A long, ominous room stretching away from the camera, and the actors enter at the far (sometimes shadowy) end, and advance towards the camera lens. If I walked into the TV room as the men’s room/Delbert Grady scene started, not knowing it was a Kubrick movie, I would have instantly guessed the director.
My last observation: Jack Torrance didn’t seem so much insane or possessed by spirits to me as he seemed first like an asshole husband, then like an verbally-abusive asshole husband, and then like a violent, abusive asshole husband.