Overlook Hotel

isolation, the supernatural, and contorted time. Kubrick’s use of unique and complex visual styles along with many subtle details often confuses the viewer at a subconscious level. With Jack Torrance being influenced by an evil, spiritual presence in the hotel and his son witnessing the supernatural, The Shining is a terrifying movie with an ominous feel throughout. The various techniques and plot used by Kubrick in The Shining often puzzles the viewer into thinking, maybe there is a deeper…

No Escape The Shining is based off a novel written by Stephen King in 1977 and later produced as a horror film by Stanley Kubrick in 1980. The summary of the film is of a family that heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. Kubrick takes the study called phenomenology, which is the development of human consciousness and self-awareness as a…

Further on in the film Kubrick shows Jack being sent into the forbidden Room 237 to inspect the room to see if there was anyone in there, after Danny comes back extremely disheveled with bruises around his neck claiming that a strange woman had strangled him in Room 237. Kubrick uses a variety of camera shots, sound techniques and symbolism to show Jack being triumphed by an evil and unstable mind. In the scene Jack is shown to be confronted by a young, beautiful, naked woman stepping out of the…

inflicted by his father on him and his family. Anyways, for King, Jack’s weaknesses are easy access into his being used by the evil entity that possesses him, rather than the main reason for his demise and ultimate death. This entity lives in the Overlook Hotel, where Jack is employed as winter caretaker. Snowbound for months, the Torrances (Jack, Wendy and their five-year-old son Danny) must face possession as Danny realizes that he is the target of a destructive, supernatural…

on by noting the small details throughout the film. Some of the small things are the numbers 42 and 21, the appearance of Indian remembrance many times throughout the movie, and the mysterious placements of objects and rooms inside of the Overlook Hotel. Most people don’t realize that this movie is more than just a film, but it is a mind game. Once the spark of realizing that this masterpiece of cinematography…

Jack Torrance, the main character of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, played by Jack Nicholson, dutifully fills his role as breadwinner to the nuclear family until the pressures of carrying the “white man’s burden” become to great for him to bear and ultimately causing him to go insane. Because a wide gap exists between Torrance’s desire (to be a creative person) and his interpolated role (which imposes breadwinning over his desire), he experiences heightened inner tension. This inner tension…

taking care of the hotel in the middle of nowhere.In “The Shining”, Jack went from being loving , to being distant, to being mentally ill and violent , in just of a couple of months. Although “The Shining is one of the best horror movies , it is more than that. It has a deeper meaning through the use of symbolism , and scenes depicting domestic violence , patriarchy , and genocide. One of the first signs of domestic violence was a while back before jack got the job at the hotel. Jack was drunk…

Do you remember the little kid from The Shining? Have you wondered how he’d be like as an adult after surviving a scary hotel that drove his drunken father insane? Stephen King has now told us what happens to Danny Torrance, and he’s just as screwed up from the experience as you’d expect him to be. Because of Dan’s past, his father’s life of alcoholism keep Dan drifting for years. Due to an AA community, he has been sober, and Dan’s gift can present itself more clearly. He meets a young girl…

a caretaker to a hotel during the winter season. During this season he will be living with just his family because the hotel closes down completely due to its harsh winter storms, but the caretaker is suppose to keep up with the hotel maintenance. Although when Jack and his family are staying at the hotel they all begging to experience supernatural events that leads them, mainly Jack, to madness. In his madness Jack kills a man who wanted to help get the family out of the hotel and attempt to…

The movie The Shining based on a Stephen King’s novel with the same title and directed by Stanley Kubrick introduces a family who heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific apprehensions from the past and of the future. The "Danny's tricycle" scene is one of the most famous scenes in modern cinema history. Director Stanley Kubrick uses different film techniques to convey the horror and…