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It took about a year to get the iconic shot in where blood pours out of the elevator in The Shining right, but only three days to film.

Funny.. this is probably, to me, one of the dumnest scenes in any movie. I mean that.. But three days to film? Sad..

So the big storm this week.. and another snowstorm happening today. There is a certainly part of me, each time I look out the window and hardly see the road in front of me due to giant snow piles, that I feel a little more like Jack Torrance from the SHINING.. Sure, I’m not living in a big vacant hotel .. And I don’t have spirits serving me drinks yet. But my God.. the insanity of being homebound .. the mind numbing winter that keeps you stuck in four walls.. I LOVE getting outside to shovel at this point. That’s just how crazy it is feeling.. 

Wow.. so DRUDGE is a horror movie fan after all!

The SHINING’s last scene with Jack Nicholson is the imagery used for his top link about the weather.

Good choice, Matt..

This is a behind the scenes image from the setting of Kubrick’s THE SHINING. There are lots of other images in this treasure trove, and you can see them all at http://imgur.com/a/Ur9Zo#TakkNne

I think Jack Nicholson looked even scarier when he’s not in the role..

Two good stories today on Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING worth reading:

What exactly did Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of THE SHINING mean?

An aide to Kubrick scoffs

Years back, I never really appreciated the Kubrick version of THE SHINING. I read the Stephen King book, and actually enjoyed the late 1990s TV adaptation (it was the late 90s,  right?, or early 2000s?) of the book. I thought the Kubrick version was a little too deep for someone who just wanted a scary movie about a frightening hotel….

But maybe it wasn’t deep at all. Maybe all those references people thought meant something actually meant nothing?

But didn’t Kubrick help fake the moon landing?? Or has the joke been on us all these years?