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All work and no Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day makes Jack a dull boy.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!
I’m a big fan of call backs and the circular nature of things. It’s why I love The Dark Tower series so much and it’s why you’re seeing me end the month long horror run of BtSPotD with a BTS photo from The Shining.
If you remember I started off the month with a great photo of the creepy evil twin girls from The Shining and I’m ending it with a fantastic photo taken by Stanley Kubrick himself during the filming of one of my all time favorite horror movies.
It’s a flat out beautiful shot. I don’t know guys, I think that Kubrick guy knew his way around a camera.
Enjoy the photo and click to make big! If your tastes are anything close to mine you’ll want this as your desktop image.
If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I’m looking for the iconic, the rare or the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
Happy Halloween everybody! As I do every year, I now let you get into the mood… with Mr. Tim Curry who proves that anything can indeed happen on Halloween.
Tomorrow’s pic will give ya’ a shave and a haircut… two bits!
-Quint
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Previous Behind the Scenes pics:
- Alien
- Big Trouble In Little China
- Clash of the Titans
- Dr. Strangelove
- Sesame Street
- The Birds
- The Dark Knight
- Batman (1989)
- Batman: The TV Series
- Stephen King’s IT
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Superman
- The French Connection
- Tron
- The Road Warrior
- Ghostbusters
- King Kong (’33)
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke with Slate)
- Rebel Without A Cause
- Taxi Driver
- Metropolis
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Tommy Chong Meets The Blues Brothers
- The Empire Strikes Back (Filming the Crawl)
- John Carpenter’s The Thing
- Jaws
- Die Hard
- Aliens
- Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
- The Howling
- Revenge of the Creature
- The Empire Strikes Back (Vader & Luke Duel)
- The Godfather
- Rambo III
- Vertigo
- Planet of the Apes
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Labyrinth
- RoboCop
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Marathon Man
- Young Frankenstein
- Viva Las Vegas
- The Empire Strikes Back (Han driving a snow cat)
- Rio Bravo
- Giant
- Back to the Future
- The Time Machine
- War of the Worlds (1953)
- Alien (Chestburster)
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- Dr. No
- The Twilight Zone
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke in Wampa Cave)
- Edward Scissorhands
- The Warriors
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Requiem for a Dream
- The Princess Bride
- Hard Boiled
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- They Live
- The Empire Strikes Back (Tippet with Wampa)
- Dirty Harry
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Blade Runner
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Periscope Ride)
- 1941
- The Godfather (Coppola & Brando)
- The Lady Eve
- 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
- Godzilla
- The Empire Strikes Back (Bald Vader)
- Mary Poppins
- Alien 3
- Total Recall
- The Pink Panther
- Fawlty Towers
- The Trouble With Harry
- Beetlejuice
- The Shining
- Thriller
- An American Werewolf In London
- The Gate
- The Fly (1958)
- Halloween
- Army of Darkness
- Frankenstein
- Seed of Chucky
- Psycho
- John Carpenter’s The Thing (Bottin)
- Creature From the Black Lagoon
- Friday the 13th (1980)
- A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
- Creepshow
- Night of the Living Dead (’68)
- Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
- Silence of the Lambs- The Exorcist
- Alien (crouching alien)
- Alfred Hitchcock being awesome
- Son of Frankenstein
- The Mummy (1932)
- Re-Animator
- Nosferatu (1979)
- Nosferatu (1922)
- War of the Worlds
- Vincent (Tim Burton)
- Evil Dead II
- The Evil Dead
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Kubrick just had a way.
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but who's the chick? and first?
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Shelly Duval.
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Terribly miscast. Totally grating. Yet I still love the movie.
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just watched Madman (1982). it was shit :-)
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I dunno. I dislike her strongly in the role, but once you get towards the end when the shit is hitting the fan, she comes through. The "all work, no play" scene is creepy as shit, and her reaction to it is what makes the scene for me. Oh, and if you don't like this movie, you probably suck. This is at the top of my top 3 horror films list, ahead of Nightmare on Elm Street and Phantasm
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Oct. 31, 2010, 3:01 p.m. CST
Who is the chick? and yeah the Shinning is one of the greatests
by KilliK
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Thanks.
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Great BTS pic. Awful, awful video. Awful, awful, awful, awful. I loved it.
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It's definately no one from the film.
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She was perfect. Early on played the slightly dimwitted mom and then later on played the scared out of her fucking mind mom the best. Her eyes her look. Shaking while holding the knife. Etc she was perfect !!!
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My first post didn't show up for a while. Hence the "Hello?"
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...anybody who can sing the line "Your dentist could turn into a queen / Has anybody seen my tambourine" with that much earnest conviction has my vote for best actor ever to appear in a made-for-tv HBO Halloween children's movie. Fact.<BR> <BR> "The Worst Witch" owns all your asses!!
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Pretty sure the Girl in the Photo is Vivian Kubrick. Kubrick's daughter who made the "Making of The Shining" documentary.
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Done Thanks for this awesome pic!
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You know I looked at this in full resolution and somewhere during, my mouse brought me to a spot (a shot might be a better word?) where I could only see Nicholson, standing, out of focus and with Kubrick's mug in the background framed within the mirror that he's taking a photograph of a mirror. Let's just say that for a split second I forgot what I was looking at and got the effect of Kubrick transfigured. My heart is still beating.
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When I was three years old and watched the Robin Williams' Popeye movie on constant loop, even then I was wondering why an HNIC like Popeye was so twisted over Shelley Duvall.
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Sorry, thought I'd get that in before the hipster douchebags. Greatest movie ever.
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I agree. In the book she's described as a blonde but other than that Shelly nailed it. I wouldn't want anyone else in the role. Plus I love watching her crumble into tears in the making of doc.
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And Tim Curry is the king / queen of ham. Awesome.
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Coppola move. Whoever she is, she's hot. Or was.
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Wow. I thought that movie was awful 20+ years ago. I was so right, more so than I thought. Did JK Rowling get the idea for Harry Potter from this movie?
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First pic I can recall seeing Kubrick with anything approaching a smile. As much as I have issues with the adaptation, this is still one hell of a movie. Cheers Quint. Happy Halloween everyone.
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This is one of my favorite BTS pics so far. Great shit, thank you Quint.
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Much as I loved it when it opened, there was a general feeling at the time that the film was a bit listless and not particularly scary (when compared to the recent FRIDAY THE 13th, for example). But I remember Jack Nicholson declaring that "The Shining will be around when other films of its type have faded." So it amuses me (as much as it pleases me) that it's now regarded as a classic. Ditto BLADE RUNNER and THE THING.
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Sweet. Roger Rabbit has some good BTS picture potential.
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Wrong on both counts. Look at the list of previous BTS pics at the bottom of the article.
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Probably rockin a wild 70s bush but I wouldn't mind.
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Pure Jack greatness. I fucking love this film.
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Did they make that video at the mall?
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Oct. 31, 2010, 6:29 p.m. CST
Supposedly Kubrick called Stephen King when they were filming...
by CountryBoy
... and was like, "Aren't all ghost stories essentially OPTIMISTIC? Because they posit a life after death, and that we go on, and there is a god...?" I would love to have heard King's response...
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That IS an amazing pic. And trust me, I know my Kubrick.
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Freaking loved this movie growing up. Glad to see someone else enjoyed Tim Curry kicking @$$ in this movie.
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Had much better tits then that old bitch in the shower and Shelly Duvall.
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...and, honestly, I'm not trolling, but does everyone really think this film is the 'greatest hooror film of all time'?<p>Only I think it's crap. Tedious, dull and punching ridiculously above it's actual cinematic weight.<p>Ok, I know most of you will disagree, so let's already take it for granted that I'm a twat who knows nothing about cinema and Kubrick could do no wrong, but if there's someone, somewhere in AICN-land who doesn't have this on their all-time top ten, please let me know...just for a bit of soildarity!
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Jesus...
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It's slow, it takes it's time, It's atmospheric and beautiful. Yet.. it's not in my top ten of all time. Thirty maybe. I'm a big Jack fan from that era, Cuckoos nest is a better film, and in some ways, more horrific. It is what it is. The book owns the film. Oh, and i don't like Kubrick either. His films generally bore me, but not this one.
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She was the little girl on the orbiting telephone call in 2001.
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u made me piss my pants--yea super frutti
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Not perfect casting did an incredible portrayal of the character.
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The framing and composition and lighting and everything in Kubrick's films is so perfect in such a hard to define way -- his movies definitely have their flaws, but they are all pieces of art, and none of them is ever uninteresting to look at. Fuck, photos like this -- just a snapshot! -- show that, whatever else he was, the man just had a fucking gift for creating interesting images with a camera.
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Honestly if you don't like this movie, no sorry, if you don't love this movie you aren't worth talking to
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Unexpected, keeps your eyes moving all over the photo, tells a story.
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Still my favorite, and gets better with every viewing.
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Check out the book of early photography titled "Stanley Kubrick: Drama & Shadows ". aspolutely amazing wha the was doing at 19 years of age with a still camera.
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<p>King's novel is about a troubled man who goes crazy.</p> <p>Kubrick's film is about a crazy man who goes bat-shit fucking insane.</p> <p>HUGE difference. Kubrick should have stuck closer to the book. The hedge maze is vastly inferior to killer topiary animals. And turning Dick Hallorann into nothing more than a red herring is a fucking crime.</p>
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Wow! Thanks Quint!
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Nope. Nobody cares.
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...Halloween treat to myself.
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vote!
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What makes King's book a classic is Torrence's flawed but loving father struggles as he descends into insane murderer. Sorry folks, but Kubrick blew it big time.
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She was horribly miscast. Yes, Wendy in the novel is a blonde, but she's also a strong, capable woman, not the sniveling, whining snot job Duvall portrays her as. Rebecca De Mornay comes closer in the mini-series, which unfortunately is flawed with weak dialogue and Weber. A definitive film of The Shining has yet to be made, maybe one of these days.
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I think only an HBO miniseries will make a halfway decent movie version. I want to see the phantom bicycle crash scene, and the play within the story acted out, and Halloran's seatmate on the flight back to Denver. And only Fishburne or Samuel L for Halloran will do now (sorry, Morgan, you're too old now). Although I will watch anything Rebecca D is in. Especially 'And God Created Woman' ...the first half hour of it. Repeatedly.
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To finally put his grand vision on the screen, and he fucking blew it big time. The novell was filled wih sentimental drivel and whiny alcoholic remorse; Kubrick cuts the story to the bare bones and leafs your imagination do the rest. Unless you have no imagination, then you will prefer King and Mick Garriss' stupid version. To be honest, it looks like fan fiction in comparison to the 1980 film. My favorite part of the whole saga is that when King bought the rights back from Kubrick (yes, it happened), Kubrick included a shut the FuCK UP clause, preventing King from badmouthing Kubricks film for the rest of King's life. Time has shown whose version is the more enduring.
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You know how much those things weigh? About 8 ounces at the heavy part. If my dad whacked me with one of those I'd shoo him away, not die. Kubrick tried it, it looked stupid, they switched to an axe. Garris and King tried it, it looked totally fucking stupid, and they went with it anyway.
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That unbelievably annoying crying snot-snort thing she does throughout the entire final act. I really can't understand how such a notorious perfectionist like Kubrick would *intentionally* include that. Takes me right out of the film every time.
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great one...very cool that Kubrick snapped it himself
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and demand preformances from his actors. I think it's kind of sad that actors dont let directors puppet them that much anymore. You have to trust the vision. Actors shoud never feel above the vision. They should ask the director as amnay times as is they can what the director wants. I love watching a director get out of his chair move the camera around himself. dfictate to the actors how they need to move and emote. I just fucking love that. Kubrick could wear people out. He kept his crew small as fuck and he saw something he wanted and he pushed until he got it. Keep it small stay involved and listen to the fucking director!
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for fucks sake. The score is superb, always crucial in a horror movie. The visuals are rich, fast-moving at times and then slower. The movie has a great pace and creepy visuals in abundance. The acting is uniformly excellent. Some say Jack goes ott but really it's just a commitment to insanity, fueled by an addiction to alcohol, tormented by ghosts. And Shelley Duvall's character is nervewracking.<p> Then there's the isolated, gigantic hotel, the high mountain blizzard, closing in every second, a total white-out. Then, the maze... The Shining delivers the goods.
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Thanks to some brilliant steady cam work!
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I once read somewhere that Kubrick HATED Shelley Duvall personally. There is the myth around that he made her do about 50 takes of the scene where she shuts the door of the freezer to trap Jack Nicholson. ...Maybe that was the thing about Kubrick: As much as in the weird chemistry between Cruise and Kidman he saw something in Duvall's acting that he thought would positiviely contribute to the overall movie. What it is I do not know, mind you. Last time I saw the movie I rooted for Jack to finally shut that whining bitch up for good....
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kind of reminds me of an ex. Luckily I managed to resist going after her with an axe.
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Absolute genius.
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Nov. 1, 2010, 5:25 a.m. CST
How come the extended version isn't on Region2 DVD?
by Sigourneys_Beaver
Kind of pisses me off. Don't know what i'm missing besides about 30 minutes.
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as anything other than source material. Kubrick took King's pedestrian ideas and made them into an EPIC WORK OF ART. No wonder King hates it -- it's SO much better it makes the source material almost entirely irrelevant.
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NOT end someone's career? Yee-ow! It's like a video from the same visual genius behind "The Never Ending Story" and "Babes in Toyland" (The one with with Keanu and Drew). Ewww!
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Vincent Price...
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of the screenplay with Kubrick. She said Stanley was a bit of a kook and would call her at all hours of the day or night nonstop. She also said Stanley wanted nothing to do with Stephen King and essentially froze him out of the film completely.
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she's playing a somewhat insecure / not-fully-aware, but caring woman who does not see or heed the early warning signs of what Jack is and will fatalistically become. that's a tough role to have that much screaming and crying and make it meaningful. we really feel her growing horror. she's equal to nicholson in this flick and never goes over top.
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KUBRICK
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when he thinks he's gonna get laid in room 237 beats most acting in movies today.
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think of how skillful Nicholson had to be in that scene with Danny in the bedroom where he's telling him how much he loves him but he's mirroring the twins saying they're gonna stay at the hotel 'forever and ever and ever'. CREEPY! i would say the ONLY moment i don't like is when the hot naked chick turns into the old dead lady. her overdubbed laugh strikes me a little fake and the slow lurch towards the camera seems a bit wrong. but otherwise this movie rocks my sox.
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yeah jack's face is all kinds of bad. b/c he's thinking 'i'm gonna get some' but he's also thinking 'i'm gonna get some and some evil and i'm getting evil and i like getting some and getting evil.' it's a complex thing i feel there. like he's on the edge of reveling in the badness. and then of course he does.
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just like 2001, critics were not kind to The Shining when it was released. But now its considered a classic. Time does catch up with genius.
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that is a classic scene in the bathroom, when nicholson is telling the waiter he chopped his daughter up into little bits. my wife and i were watching the shining, and during that scene i said only one other actor can bug out like nicholson, and before i could even say it my wife said "michael keaton"
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more Orson Welles drunk. It is funny
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with a holographic iPad floating next to your face- tapping the holo-keypad with your tongue. I have faith in you Lobot. I know in my gut that before you expend your last breath you will have obtained a first post. I have at least 20 over the years. You can have all of them if you like.
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convincing. He's suited for comedy and emotional drama. He's great in the other guys- more comedy for Keaton please
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but Kubricks films is sheer fucking horror genius. <p> and Braindrain putting Friday the 13th over Alien doesn't surprise me for some reason...
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...pictured with her late father.
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...but if I remember right, I read something when they made the movie about how they couldn't pull it off without loonig silly. I can see that. Now, of course, there'd be no problem, but in 1980?
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Nov. 1, 2010, 2:24 p.m. CST
Why this is the greatest horror film of all time...
by theyreflockingthisway
it satisfies both people who like supernatural horror movies and psychological horror films. It's open to interpretation if the ghosts are actually real or if it's all to do with cabin fever/insanity. <br><br> Anyway it still wont be everyone's favourite horror movie, but I think that's why it's so highly regarded. Even if you think ghost stories are stupid, there's still a lot in this film for you.
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Nov. 1, 2010, 2:25 p.m. CST
Why this is the greatest horror film of all time...
by theyreflockingthisway
it satisfies both people who like supernatural horror movies and psychological horror films. It's open to interpretation if the ghosts are actually real or if it's all to do with cabin fever/insanity. <br><br> Anyway it still wont be everyone's favourite horror movie, but I think that's why it's so highly regarded. Even if you think ghost stories are stupid, there's still a lot in this film for you.
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...being young. Wish he could dip his toe in the fountain of youth.
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He did it as Beetlejuice
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or who even propose there is anything superior in the Stephen King made for tv movie.... Have absolutely no instinct or emotional response to interesting and great cinema. Just the opening credits of this film is more daring, more startling, more dynamic, and more thoughtful, and more deeply dreadful (that's a good thing in this case) than the entire length of the Stephen King produced version. The only scene that doesn't work for me in this film is the response to the doctor that Wendy (Shelly Duval) has when she nervously lights the cigarette. That part seems like awkward acting to me... but outside of that she was perfectly cast. Perfect. Casting the typical blonde lead is just common and not interesting. Casting Shelly Duvall is casting someone that looks and acts like a character in a strange universe. And a strange and malevolent universe is what Kubrick created. With no silly topiary animals come to life.
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http://tinyurl.com/28lf2vm saw this the other day. pretty good tribute...
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Kubrick's youngest daughter. She is a real cutie. Under the pseudonimum Abigail Mead she composed the score for FULL METAL JACKED, and she filmed a very good documentary of the making of THE SHINING when she was 19.<br><br>As for Kubrick, he started as a photographer, a damn good one, one of his first photos made the cover of Time, i believe, showing a newstand seller sad with the news of Rosevelt's death. That photo is legendary. He won an award for that. Small wonder he could do such a great photo as the one shown above.
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"I do believe that people who don't like this movie or who even propose there is anything superior in the Stephen King made for tv movie... Have absolutely no instinct or emotional response to interesting and great cinema."<br><br>Too true. And it's an infection that's spreadign out among the geekry liek wildfire. This is why mediocre shits like Jar Jar Abrams and Michael Shit Bay and the shitty movies they make can get so beloved and so much supported in here at AICN and elsewhere. Frankly, i'm startign to be believe that the geekry is no longer interested in truenquality, but more into following hype and be part of the in-crowd of the moment. They are not into movies, they are into events.
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is the "let's get nuts" scene from batman, done right in front of the master of bugging, no less
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I don't think there's anything wrong with an event movie that is also great even if you were the only one in the theater, but yes, if the movie is weak, it's sickening. Certainly Transformers didn't do much for me outside of detailed effects shots. And this "event" trend even spreads to the comedy world with something like Zombieworld or even further back, "Wedding Crashers". These felt more like event "comedies" than an actually funny film, unlike the truly great (in my opinion) Shawn of the Dead and 40 Year Old Virgin. On the flip side I really enjoyed Cloverfield as a version of a bad dream (big monster nightmare) where things don't make literal sense but flow with a surreal impression of a narrative. Imagine that movie as the result of someone's dream being triggered by outside noises such as a garbage truck, etc after they fell asleep seeing an old Godzilla movie.
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Is when Duvall was walking up the stairs and she looks down the hall and sees the butler and the guy in the dog suit... I know what it was now, but when I was younger I was like WTF was that about? Creeped me out. Yes this is one of the top ten just for the scarefest that was the empty ass hotel.
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