The very famous director, Stanley Kubrick, was one of the most famous movie makers of all time... He is an extreme perfectionist in every film made, and each film was in a different genre. Clockwork Orange, Dr Strangelove, 2001, and Full Metal Jacket are all fantastic, but my person fav is the epic Barry Lyndon. This was a great reaction, even though you were way past the midnight hr Aria! Thanx
Jack, Danny's father, had "the shining" too. The chef told Danny that many have the shine, but don't believe it. Jack saw visions, then right after the visions, he acted like they never happened such as the first encounter with the bartender and when he left Room 237.
@@ariachanson01 Plus, Jack Nicholson's eyebrows would scare anybody. Those are half of his performance. 😉 On a different note, you would absolutely love him in the comedy drama "As Good As It Gets" as another not so loveable author.
There are two horror movies from my childhood that had a huge impact on me. The Shining and The Thing starring Kurt Russell. I remember watching both of those movies when I was a kid and being so terrified! Loved your reaction!!!
Great stuff, Aria! Tony was Danny's child-brain interpreting of the shining (because he didn't have a teacher to teach him what shining actually was, like Mr. Haloren and his grandmother)....Danny made the shining into an imaginary friend (but that's not really what it is).
Hope you’ll check out “Doctor Sleep” as well! It’s a sequel about Danny. Takes place 30 or so years later and gets more into the lore of what “shining” actually is. It’s pretty good, if not classic like the first one.
Great reaction 👍 this movie on the big screen is great also. Tony is himself as his older self, his middle name is "Anthony" hence the name Tony. The hotel ghost wanted Danny because of his SHINING abilities & used his Dad to try to get him. You will love the sequel DOCTOR SLEEP(2019) also suggest John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN 🎃 (1979), John Carpenter's THE FOG(1981) BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA(1986) MANHUNTER(1986) NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (1986) THE RELIC(1998) KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE(1988) FRIGHT NIGHT(1985) PHANTOMS(1997) MIMIC(1997) JEEPERS CREEPERS(2002) 28 DAYS LATER (2003) DAWN OF THE DEAD(2004)
Aria nice choice. I love The Shining not a jump scare movie but a slow uncomfortable burn that always has you on edge and guessing.Jack Nicholson was the perfect choice to showing a man slowly spiraling out of control. However The king of uncomfortable creepy horror movies is The Exorcist another movie perfectly suited for a 2am bed watch.😱
I know what you mean, the first time I watched the exorcist, it was in the middle of the night but when things started getting really uncomfortable and creepy scary, I stopped thinking it would be better to just watch it next day in the afternoon or something 😂
My family dynamic was similar to the Torrences. Kubrick was famously harsh to Shelly Duvall, making her do a ton of reshoots, etc. I think, based on my experience, that he was trying to get her to portray a woman broken by Jack long before the movie. She's a wounded animal. It's terrifying to grow up with an abusive father and a mother too beaten down to protect you, so if that was what Kubrick had in mind, good job. Also, on the ending, I take it as you dying at the hotel makes you part of it. "You were ALWAYS the Caretaker." ;)
"Here's Johnny!" Fun Fact: As he lived in England, Stanley Kubrick was not at all familiar with the "Heeeeere's Johnny" line (from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)) that Jack Nicholson improvised. He very nearly didn't use it. Hot Take Fact: There is a great deal of confusion regarding this film and the number of retakes of certain scenes. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the scene where Wendy is backing up the stairs swinging the baseball bat was shot 127 times, which is a record for the most takes of a single scene. However, both Steadicam operator Garrett Brown and assistant editor Gordon Stainforth say this is inaccurate. The scene was shot about thirty-five to forty-five times. Method Director Fact: Despite Stanley Kubrick's fierce demands on everyone, Jack Nicholson admitted to having a good working relationship with him. It was with Shelley Duvall that he was a completely different director. He allegedly picked on her more than anyone else. He would really lose his temper with her, even going so far as to say that she was wasting the time of everyone on the set. She later reflected that he was probably pushing her to her limits to get the best out of her, and that she wouldn't trade the experience for anything, but it was not something she ever wished to repeat.
The woman that haunts room 237 is Lorraine Massey. She took her life after a spat with her younger lover and he abandoned her. Now the manevolet spirit haunts the room seeking to try to strangle anyone foolish enough to stay in 237.
Great reaction. You got to watch Misery next, it’s another successful Stephen King adaption. It’s more of a thriller but definitely passes for a horror flick.
38:00 You're one of very few viewers I've seen who has actually guessed that correctly. That's exactly what the movie implies. It's also why when Ullman tells Jack the story of Grady killing his family, he says his name was Charles Grady, but when Jack meets Grady later, he introduces himself as Delbert Grady.
32:09 Jack left Wendy at the sound of the SnowCat because ---he could kill her anytime. But someone coming to the door was a direct threat that had to be dealt with immediately
I've seen this movie before but just realized for the first time that "Tony", at least to me, clearly takes over for Danny (from the moment he says "Danny isn't here anymore Mrs. Torrence") and not only warns the mother, but actually outwits Jack in the maze. It also seems coincide with the last time he shows any real fear- running back in to the hotel, etc.
BTW: two movies that reference/pay homage to this one are: _Passengers_ from 2016 and _Ready Player One_ from 2018. They aren't in the same genre, but interesting to watch after just watching this!
That's a brilliant reaction, great to see how people view it now. I saw it when it came out first; it was a new departure in horror at the time and was generally regarded as second only to "The Exorcist" a few years earlier. Best (or worst) was that my father was caretaker of a big empty country house at the time, and I had to substitute for him that night after seeing this at the cinema!
Enjoyed your reaction! You've seen The Shining. Now, you are ready for The Exorcist (1973). Keep the lights on for that classic. A true psychological thriller.
Expanding a bit on a previous comment....There was a beautiful young starlet of Silent Movies, and she vacationed at the Overlook when she was at the top of her fame. She ended up taking residence there, and lived her live there. When she grew old, she had a Boytoy/Companion as an escort. He left her for a younger woman, so the old Movie Star drowned herself in her bathtub.....in Room 237. Both naked women are the same person, haunting her home forever
CHEF HALLORAN: Whatever you do Doc, don't go into Room 237. DANNY: Why not? CHEF HALLORAN: Well ... because 50 years ago, an 80-year-old white woman took a bath in that room. DANNY: So? ... What's bad about that? CHEF HALLORAN: Well ... because there ain't nuthin' in the world uglier, or scarier, than a naked 80-year-old white woman. Trust me Doc, you don 't want that image in your head. You'll never get rid of it. CHEF HALLORAN: Oh and by the way. if you get into trouble don't call me. I can shine too and I know that if I try to help all that will happen is I will fly all the way back here from Florida and drive through a ferocious snowstorm only to get killed the moment I arrive having accomplished absolutely nothing.
I'm jealous that she watched The Thing and The Shining each for the first time ever on the same night for this channel. Aria, can I take you out to dinner?
Good reaction I enjoyed it...a couple of other classics to add to your list is " Misery" starring Kathy bates & "Taxi Driver" starring Robert Deniro..Both very different movies.
i think the whole movie is the story jack is writing because during the interveiw in the beginning said the caretakers name had a different first name, so hes writing a fictional story about factual event so therefore has to change the first name to delbert grady for legal reasons just my take on it.
We have the inspiration for Stephen King's novel right here in Colorado... the historic Stanley Hotel in Estes Park with its supposedly haunted past and a creepy room that was the model for #237.
I read that the kid who plays Danny didn't even know he was making a horror. When he finally saw the movie, he was shocked. He never acted again. Shelley Duvall, who played Wendy, suffered a nervous breakdown because Kubrick drove her so hard. You can see her unraveling at the seams in the movie. It's not just acting
You’re a liar. What you are referring to dumbas$, is “The Exorcist”. Linda Blair was never the same after portraying that possessed character. She had a lot of issues after that. But what you said is complete BS. So, either you didn’t know, or you’re a liar! Which is it?
23:43 He's yelling for his mother to bring him some red colored rum. He is clearly a raging alcoholic. 30:21 That's just a coincidence. He is actually screaming because Wendy has been neglectful in giving him his red colored rum.
Congrats, you got it. Yes, reincarnation. The film really isn't that difficult if you just follow the dialogue. "you have always been the caretaker, I should know, I've always been here". I was pleased to see you got it, truly. I've seen some of the most convoluted theories about this movie online that I stopped reading them for the most part. Reincarnation people. Aria got it right away. Again congrats.
@@MrCzerillo and clearly you didn't read and/or understand my comments when I plainly stated I mostly stopped reading the online comments/theories about the meaning of the ending of this particular film due to the ridiculousness of those theories. You're just another cretin who doesn't pay attention (or isn't smart enough to decipher) the comments people are making and likes to go online and argue with people. And since I'm almost certain you'll reply to this (and I won't reply to you again), some words of caution to you: don't let your brains go to your head fella, because you might injure yourself.
Wow, fantastic reaction and also double wow: The Thing and The Shining back-to-back! A horror-in-the-snow double feature!!!! You did it in the right order, too, I think it's hard to follow a Kubrick movie! /Tony IS Danny. It's just how the shining has manifested itself; as sort of an imaginary friend. In the book, it's revealed that Danny's middle name is Anthony (ie: Tony).
you might find it interesting rewatching this with the view that there is nothing supernatural happening at all. Kubrick changed a substantial amount from the novel to allow layered narratives - a surface ghost story and a very real study of a family stuck in an abusive relationship (plus a possible storyline where the events are all in Jacks book rather than reality, along with some heavy social commentary about the USA's hidden history of native american genocide and corruption). Jacks descent into madness is less rapid when you take into account he had hurt Danny before, and contradicts the timeline of when he hurt him, implying it happened more than once and over a much longer period of time, he also calls Grady the wrong name (the murderous janitor was called Charles Grady, Jacks "ghost" is called Delbert Grady, similarly the daughters were not twins in the story told at the beginning...the twins we see are a manifestation of Danny's psychosis, something the psychiatrist/doctor at the beginning suggests he's experiencing because of abuse. There's logical explanations for every apparently supernatural event in the film, like Jack is always talking to a mirror when his ghosts appear, and Danny has little time skips (actual jump cuts in the film) and a whistling sound when he has a hallucination. you'll even hear Halloran speak with the same speech impediments Danny has during his conversation with Danny, implying Danny is imagining that interaction. There's so many subtle things happening in this movie. Keep an eye out for bear imagery shown around Danny and Jack...it kinda explains what Wendy saw with the weird furry, her brain coming to terms with what has been happening to Danny in a series of metaphorical visions. It was Jacks tennis ball that lured Danny into room 237...
Sometime in the late 90s, there was another adaption of The Shining that aired on tv in two parts. It did a better job at showing Jack's slow descent into madness, making it much scarier when he finally goes full evil. Nicholson is good at looking crazy naturally. This is still a great movie, and reaction.
The 1997 one was made by Stephen King's production company in direct rebuttal of this much less faithful earlier adaptation of his novel. He wanted a book accurate version filmed, and the new director Mick Garris pretty much nailed it. This version is a good movie, but the 1997 miniseries is underrated.
You think the movie is terrifying? The part in the book where Danny finally enters Room 217 (that's the room number in the book) and encounters the woman's corpse in the bathtub still gives me nightmares.
Uh oh! Now you've done it! You've started down the Shining path, and that means you may have to inevitably see Doctor Sleep. If you are disturbed by depictions of children being hurt in films, brace yourself... it's gonna get disturbing. As an aside, pay real close attention to that office where Jack interviewed for the job ; get a good look at the layout, the arrangement, the wall color (puke)... it makes a "cameo" in the sequel, but as a different office at a completely different facility, lol.
At the first bar scene, where he says he would give his soul, i always thought it was so upront and obvious to everyone but after i ve seen most of the reactions on this movie you re the only person that remarks that. Everyone thinks he is hallucinating. I think the hotel/evil power manifested those moments into reality
In the novel, Tony was actually Danny from the future come back to help himself. Read the book. It is scary. Far more-so than this film, which Stephen King hated and is only loosely based on the novel. King hated it so much that in 1997 he released "Stephen King's the Shining" a cable mini-series that was also available on DVD. This version held much more closely to the novel and to me was much scarier than Kubrick's film. While I think Kubrick's film is awesome, I like a movie to more closely resemble the literary work that inspired it. Check out "the Wendy Theory" and watch the movie again if you really want your mind blown.
God, you are looking good, even at 2 AM 😀If you'd like to watch something very very unique I'd recommend the following two movies: Suspiria (2018) and Midsommar. Keep the lights on during both 😀
In the novel, Tony is Danny as an adult. Whether this is future him sending messages back in time, young him asking his future self for help or his immortal soul is unclear (which is fine). The point is that it is a more developed Danny with more wisdom doing the best he can for his young self. However, the film and the book are essentially different stories so something from the book may not apply to the movie. Kubrick changed a lot (truly "Based on" rather than "Adapted from") to the point that Steven King hated it and disowned it making his own (vastly inferior) movie/miniseries. I think the main reason King hated this movie was because the author self-insert character (alcoholic writer) was turned from a tragic, tormented "perspective" character (one where the book devoted time to what he does and thinks from his perspective) into an unsympathetic and enigmatic man who turns into a monster before the eyes of the two protagonists of the movie. Steven King has written many great novels and this is one. Stanley Kubrick has directed many great movies and this is one. The best movies of Steven King books tend to be either based on his short stories/novellas or where the director changes the story because what works in a book does not always work in a movie.
Am I first? I have two thoughts about the tony question… one, because Danny is psychic, tony is a good spirit helping Danny by protecting him from all of the trauma that Danny sees because of the evilness of the hotel. Or two, tony was made up(subconsciously) by Danny’s mind to protect him from the horrors he sees in his mind, especially from the evilness of the hotel.
Exhausting wasn’t it? I’ve never seen you more uncomfortable lol. Yes reincarnation and I also think Jack had the shining gift too but drank to suppress it 🤔
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