THE SHINING (1980) *REACTION* GONNA NEED THERAPY AFTER THIS (MOVIE COMMENTARY) COME PLAY WITH US! 

I just saw that Shelley only made $35,000 for her role.... 😢 worth only $133,000 now. She deserved better.

Happy New Year! Let's start the year off with TRAUMA! 😜

What unsettled me the most as a kid was, strangely enough, where scenes of the big empty lobby and the hallway with that droning background music without anything scary actually happening. I found the use of liminal space in this movie really creepy.

I thought the portrait was just the film’s way of saying the hotel “got” Jack’s spirit, and now JACK will appear as the next bathroom attendant for the next poor bastard that takes the caretaker job.

Me on a random Tuesday: My brain: “Wendy…darling…LIGHT of my LIFE!”

Grady letting him out of the pantry establishes that the ghosts can exert a physical effect. The ghosts left the key in the door.

I wouldnt be suprised if this film helped Jack get the role for the Joker. The way he goes from sane, to unpleasant, to a$$hole to insane, and finally killer insane a$$hole. is amazing

The way Jack Torrance reminds me of my own dad, especially when he was drinking... this movie always disturbs me on so many levels. The book is amazing too

Wasn’t sure if Jack was actually seeing ghosts or was the hotel just draining whatever sanity he had left. I definitely believe he was a reincarnation.

An hour with the gurls. 🎉 Happy New Year, babes.

I dont know why so many people dislike this movie. Its one of my favorite psychological/suspense movies. The acting by everyone is just so good!!!

My local cinema showed this as a secret Halloween screening - I was so excited when it started to play, seeing it on the big screen was amazing!

Happy New Year! Love this movie. The scene with the man on the bed and someone in a bear costume gave me a nightmare as a child and still creeps me out to this day. lol

I stayed in the Stanley. Got the tour. The whole shebang. We experienced door opening and the ceiling fan going on by itself.

My theory is that a tragic event took the lives of everyone at a party. Their souls are trapped at the Hotel. Maybe Jack could have been helped by Wendy ?? xx

Shelly Duvall is the dark horse GOAT in this movie and doesn't get the recognition she deserves. Her character does everything right despite being out of her mind terrified, protects her son like a mama bear, and gets them out thanks to Hallorann sacrificing himself and getting a working vehicle there. Duvall portrays uncomfortable ugly horror with no vanity and complete investment...likely assisted by Kubrick's horrible treatment of her under the guise of "supporting" her performance.

You guys should watch some of Shelly Deval's fairytale theater. She puts a spooky spin on fairytales

The Simpsons' parody of this movie can't be beat as best Treehouse of Horror segment!

I remember watching this when I was a kid, and loved it for the score and atmosphere. Then also loved when Dick and Danny realized they could both shine.

I hope you two have a lovely year ahead🎉 And I love the dynamic of your relationship, it's beautiful to watch.

Note also in the early scene in the car, how he's constantly obliquely dissing his wife, with its implied rebuke about her allowing her son to watch TV unsupervised.

Filming locations …opening credits is Canada even though it’s supposed to be Colorado and the exterior hotel is the Timberline Lodge on the slope of Mt Hood in Oregon

Happy New Year to you both!! Stay fabulous!

I love this channel so much. You guys make me feel happy and safe for some reason. This is one of my favorite horror movies too.

Note the accident happened well over a year ago -- but he's only been sober for five months. There are all kinds of temporal inconsistencies in this film. Most of them deliberate.

Definately check out the director's cut of Doctor Sleep. Its Mike Flanagan at his finest and does deliver for fans who werent happy with the changes Kubrick made with this movie

Jack Nicholson is LEGEND. Period.

If you read the book, then you know that they NEVER used the elevator because it was so old and rickety. But in the movie, Wendy takes his breakfast on the roly cart.

Starting out the new year with the shining? Nice.

"Pelvis open to him" 🤣🤣🤣 Happy New Year, you beautiful guys. Love you both! ❤

one of my favourite horror movies ❤ also Wes I am obsessed with that sweater you're wearing, serving looks

It's been awhile since I read the book, but from what i remember, the infamous scene with the man in the dog suit in a suggestive pose with the man on the bed was based in and explained in the book. One of the earler owners of the Overlook was bisexual and had a gay boy toy he would cheat on his girlfriend or wife with. There's a terrifying part where either the spirit or the hotels projection of him (it's never made clear) corners Danny in the hallway and barks at him in the dog costume. He crawls on all fours at him and terrorizes poor Danny. It was a really scary part

Happy new years y'all are such a inspiration i love your guys content ❤

Happy New Year! Y'all are officially the ones I'm watching first in 2024 - I need to read the novel! Thank you for this New Year's Gift!

I love you guys! Happy New Year! 🥳

Happy New Year! 🥳 It took me longer than I care to admit to watch this movie. I finally took the plunge when Doctor Sleep came out because, as a huge Mike Flanagan fan, I really wanted to watch that movie and I knew it would be better with the context of the original movie. Both were so, so good. Of course, as a big movie fan, I knew what an amazing actor Jack Nicholson was, but I had never seen Shelley Duvall in anything before and she was a revelation. Great way to start the New Year! Thanks!

Omg! I love you both. Thank you for making me smile. You’re two very special young men.❤️

Happy New Year to the cutest couple ever❤❤❤❤ I absolutely love this movie ❤❤❤the cast is amazing. Jack was the perfect man for the job and I agree Shelly is stunning and so sweet ❤❤❤❤

This movie traumatized me as a child alobg with Halloween..... and that's why l love them lol

I live in an area that has a lot of old buildings and also hot springs, so there's a hundred year old hotel and hot spring resort in the next town over. The main building is MUCH smaller than the Overlook/Stanley but it feels very similar especially situated up in the mountains, and the inside feels very similar too. I went there the first time and was like 'oh man I want someone to chase me down these halls with an axe so bad' XD

Happy New Year guys 🎉❤

Happy new year my friends, and yes, please do Dr. Sleep!

Happy New Year!!

You should consider watching “Room 207” either just you privately or as a reaction. An in-depth documentary that, fair warning, does have some theories on the films themes that might make you eye roll and are closer to conspiracy theories but also a lot of good film maker interviews and many insights especially about background things in scenes and how Kubrick messed with the hotel layout to disorient viewers.that are eye opening and you’ll have a lot of “I never noticed that moments”

Happy New Year, Boys!!! And I love that Nicholson's longest relationship was 17 years with actress Anjelica Huston, from 1973 until 1990. Ending right before she played the Grand High Witch & Morticia Adams. Wendy Carlos (the GOAT) and Rachel Elkind made the score it's own character in the film. And I just found out looking up his info, that I'm actually 4 months older than Danny Lloyd. So I'm the same age as Danny Torrance. That's trippy. LOL.

I love the theory that there are no ghosts in the hotel… it’s the manifestations of the trauma experienced by Wendy and Danny. The abuse they experienced was too much for their brains given they were isolated with their abuser with no protection. Abuse was psychological, physical, and suspected sexual abuse of Danny. If this theory is correct, Stanley K is a master at psychologically terrorizing the viewer without using the paranormal but just the evil of men.

I love the deep dive into the little details of this film:) Like Shelly’s cigarette ash hanging on for dear life:)

Happy New Year 🎊🎈🎊🎈 boys!! 2024!!

"Ma'am, this is a Wendy's"---I'm not even finished my drink and I need to get another!!! lol Please, please do Carrie, and The Omen, and even The Evil Dead! Chris

Happy New Year

Happy New Year boys!! I can't wait to see the movies you guys choose this year! This channel has become a comfort space for me and I'm super grateful for that!! Starting off with a fun fact about The Shining! I'm sure y'all have heard this before and I don't know if anyone has already commented this (I tried to look and I didn't see anyone but if someone did already I'm sorry!!) Not sure if this is 100% true, but I read online that the young actor who played Danny wasn't allowed to actually watch the full finished movie once it was done (for obvious reasons lol). They actually went and cut around and basically edited together an entirely different film for him to watch so he could "see" what he helped create! He wasn't allowed to watch the real thing until he turned 18! If I remember correctly, after he watched it he commented that he was glad nobody let him watch it when he was any younger and I don't blame him! As a writer myself who would 10000% go up to a hotel in the snow to get away and write (not while it's entirely empty but still), this movie TRAUMATIZED ME the first time I watched it!!

I am halfway my first time watching you watch a movie, and I like your banter a lot. Never mind that you both have seen (parts of) The Shining before, because you are as engaged in it as an average truly first time reactor, if not more so. After finishing this I will check out your other reactions, and hope to find more classics.

Who knew I needed the huntie's perspective on, The Shining.

All the talk about men made me really want to watch your reaction to Men (2022) with Jessie Buckley lol Also, Bones and All (2022) I would die to see that ;) For this movie I love how they had to slow down Jack Nicholson when he was handling the axe because he was a volunteer firefighter, so he was chopping all of their doors down too fast XD That fact always makes me giggle. Also, mad props to the woman who had to type up "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." All 500 pages worth! I hope she was paid well, as well!

happy new years bbs! I stayed in a haunted room at the Stanley, the hotel it was based off of, which you know, love every interpretation, all offer something different

The interview portion is very informative but also kinda misleading. Jack's interview is important, but Wendy's interview with the visiting nurse is much more revealing. Wendy brushes over the abuse, the alcoholism, and Tony's existence as if they were minor details. She knows Jack on a daily basis and must have seen many distressing things but at this point, I think she loves him still but, of course she doesn't really know Jack. " Ya don't know Jack!" She is covering up for an abusive partner, who can say why. She has to be afraid of Jack, while at the same time she loves him. We don't learn anything about Wendy's past, her family, her education, she is presented as a wife and mother who loves her family. But as any person who loves or lives with an alcoholic knows, presentation is very important. To her Jack's alcoholism is easily explained away by the stress of the job of teaching. I love, love your theory about Dorothy Gale and I'm a gonna rewatch this film very shortly on that basis alone. Happy new year! Oh, didja ever see Burnt Offerings? This film, I believe, influenced the shining. Kubrick, like so many creative people, was a magpie, picking up bits here and there when it suited him. Another great film I have always loved and would fit in perfectly with your channel is The Abonimable Doctor Phibes. It seems younger people totally dismiss Vincent Price for being campy, but this film and its sequel show a much different Vincent Price. Lastly, The Witchfinder General is the very best acting of Mr. Price in a horror film. It is genuinely terrifying and hard to watch. 😮

I'm late but Wendy and Dick Halloran getting together is the ending my soul needs 😭 ALSO I get super revved up like you guys when Jack is taunting Wendy about "his" responsibilities/if she's ever considered them, when literally she's doing his job every day!! 😤

Great vid guys! Cannot wait to see you do _Doctor Sleep_ (fab sequel)! 😁💜

Happy New Year! Fingers crossed for a collab between you guys and Shut Up James in 2024!

Your sweaters are iconic

The hubby and I stayed at the Stanley last year! So cool!

I'd love to know what you guys thought of Steven Weber's performance in the miniseries. I was thoroughly impressed - I thought he was strictly a comedy guy since I had only ever seen him on Wings. But in The Shining? He scared me!

I went to the Stanley over thanksgiving break! We did the tour but didn’t stay there. The set recreations were cool to see. Definitely worth the trip!

Shelley's performance is one of the best is screen history!!!

Love your channel!

45:03 one of my friends in highschool was doing an essay and did this exact thing it was like 6 pages of that quote repeated 😂

Happy new year, Chey, and Wes! I'm so happy you're reacting to this movie!

Jack Nicholson was a volunteer firefighter and the set director had to make multiple re-enforced doors because Jack was tearing the doors down to quickly.

"Get me a floatie" 😂 8:34

I love the stock music heard during the first maze scene. It was featured prominently in the 1968 classic Doctor Who story, "The Web of Fear".

Hi from Norway 🇳🇴, great reaction ,the two of you are so funny,,bit trivia ,when Wendy hits him with the bat,and he falls down the stairs, he broke his ankle ,that's why he limps for the rest of the movie.

It’s a bear not a dog! I thought so too for the longest time.

I need this right now.

That hotel looks amazing!

The reason that Danny doesn't want to discuss Tony anymore after the doctor asks him does Tony tell him to do anything is because "Tony" is a kind of stand-in for his father who told him to do certain naughty things with him and you can imagine what they are since Tony lives in his mouth: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dW2GrG7Zk0U.htmlsi=HMtJE-LTNFnhha_G

Doctor Sleep, (2019) ❤❤❤

You know what always gets me? The "Tuesday" slate. I don't know why, it's practically a jumpscare for me.

Happy new years guys. Can y’all review doctor sleep? I liked that one too.

Shelley said that the staircase seen was the hardest she have done, she was emotionally exhausted after ,its amazing this scene, you can really feel the fear she has and Jack well you just look at him, for me one of the best psychological thrille , horror out there

Hi from norway 🇳🇴 great reaction ,the two of you are so funny ,,some trivia ,,when wendy hits jack with the bat and he falls down the stairs ,he broke his ankle ,thats why he limps for the rest of the movie ..

thank u guys gettin back to me cant wait for freddy

15:57 Yoooooo!!! Never even crossed my mind!!! 😳

just noticed for the first time ever that the poster beside the boilers that shelley is working on says CHOKING right before we see danny with bruises on his neck

I didn't get to stay at the Stanley unfortunately (the real one, not the one in the movie), but I did stay nearby and got to take a nighttime tour while in town for my cousin's wedding. It's a really cool experience (no paranormal sightings on the tour, of course) and they even take you down in the basement. Word of warning for those wanting to stay at the Stanley: if you're going in the summer, just know that the main building does not have air conditioning!

Oh also - a lot of the score is from Bartok Music for Percussion Strings Celeste...idk something like that. But I think it's mvt 4. So when I was majoring in music, we listened to it in a music history class and and half the class was like "wait....waaaaiiiiiit." Now it's one of my favorite pieces.

As a colorado native, this movie is such a vibe to me.

This is the most frightening movie that I have ever seen!😢

I guess i am q psychopath. I love sunny side up eggs

You said you read the book; of COURSE it was the ghost who choked Danny! I know you hate Jack but he didn’t do EVERYTHING lol 🤣

my favorite horror movie 🥹❤️❤️❤️

Re Luke mourning for Kenobi: You should watch Robot Chicken's "4 Princess Leia Moments."

24:52 Happy New Year! 🎉 Hope you two have the best year ever, so far.. I know you love Sissy Spacek and Shelley Dulvall. May I suggest you watch the movie called "3 Women". It stars both of them and in the movie Shelley duvall's signature color is yellow too.

OMG, GOOD EYE ON THE COLOR SWITCH AT 49:38!!

Omg unprovoked attacked on Mr. moseby! Loved this one 💕

Giving a shout-out to Timberline lodge in MT. hood where some of this movie was filmed

I haven't seen this movie is many many years & believe me, once was enough for me! I don't care for horror but I love you guys so I had to watch. I don't know the story about Stephan King's experience at this hotel, what was it??

Its a bummer to look up recent pictures of the Overlook, as its now surrounded by McMansions.

You two are a hoot! While Jack and Danny are crucial to the story, Wendy had to be able to portray a woman who starts hesitant, but becomes strong and a fierce mother bear. Shelley Duvall was a revelation in this role! My first two intros to Jack Nicholson were The Joker and The Shining. Dude scarred me and I loved it. Did you know that there are "rumors" that the director, Kubrick, was the person who filmed the "fake" moon landing. The rumors say that's the reason Danny wore an Apollo 11 sweater and even hinted that the carpet pattern was based on the shuttle/rocket, whatever it is. PS, I remember the days when kids didn't wear seatbelts. Those were the days....😂

I always hate the scene when she checks up on him and his writing and he’s such a total jerk about it. I wouldn’t want anything to do with him after that. You’re on your own, Buddy.

oh gosh you should have seen jack when he was younger then this before the shiney. He did a few edgar alan poe novel inspired films. and has in a few films with boris karloff and even vincent price. I didnt even know it was him UNTIL he did his smile. never saw him back then without his shirt but from the looks Id say he had a swimmers build before he started growing a big of daddy fat.