The Shining

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Just watched this last night because I hadn't seen it in AGES and, my word, what a puzzling and scary flick. Can anyone really make any sense of the whole thing? There were so many different little things that just didn't add, yet fit perfectly into it.

The scene that scares the bejesus out of me every time is the one where Shelley Duvall is running up the stairs with the butcher knife and stops to look down the hall, then sees two men in a compromising position ( :laugh: ), only one of them is dressed as a bear. Scares me EVERY time. :nod:

[strandinthewind]

I read this book at a very swanky hotel (actually more than one) in Paris and the Waldorf Astoria in NYC both of which to me had that ghostly feel to it. Talk about scare the Shhheeeiittteeeee out of me LOL

But, yes, that seen is terrifying!!!!!!!!!!! as is the one where the blood comes gushing out of the elevators. AND - that creepy 20's music at the end!!!!!!!!

YIPES!!! :eek:

[Patti]

I haven't seen the movie in a very long time, but I do remember the book scared me a LOT more than the movie and the movie was pretty creepy.

Did you see that remake for TV? Bad...

[wondergirl9847]

It's one of the scariest, if not, THE scariest movie! It's not blood (elevator notwithstanding LOL) and guts everywhere, it's not a chainsaw ripping through flesh or eyeballs hanging out, it's psychologically scary, for the most part. I can't imagine anything scarier than being stuck in a very claustrophic place with a frickin' psycho, who you know and love. LOL

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I read this book at a very swanky hotel (actually more than one) in Paris and the Waldorf Astoria in NYC both of which to me had that ghostly feel to it. Talk about scare the Shhheeeiittteeeee out of me LOL

But, yes, that seen is terrifying!!!!!!!!!!! as is the one where the blood comes gushing out of the elevators. AND - that creepy 20's music at the end!!!!!!!!

YIPES!!! :eek:

I didn't care for the book very much and I hated the ending. But it was still very scary!!!

That whole soundtrack for the movie was spooky. The heartbeats drove me mad.

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Did you see that remake for TV? Bad...

Bad isn't the word. Cheesy is the word. :laugh:

[strandinthewind]

I didn't care for the book very much and I hated the ending. But it was still very scary!!!

That whole soundtrack for the movie was spooky. The heartbeats drove me mad.
Berlioz is a MASTER composer. That particular movement is from "Symphonie Fantastique" and is called "Songe d'une nuit du Sabbat" (translation "Dream of a Witches' Sabbath) - Here is an excerpt from an inperpreation from my CD:

5th Movement / Dream of a Witches' Sabbath

He dreams that he is present at a witches' dance, surrounded by horrible spirits, amidst sorcerers and monsters in many fearful forms, who have come to assist at his funeral. Strange sounds, groans, shrill laughter, distant yells, which other cries seem to answer. The beloved melody is heard again but it has lost its noble and shy character; it has become a vulgar, trivial and grotesque dance-tune. She it is, who comes to attend the witches' meeting. Howls of joy greet her arrival . . . . She joins the infernal orgy . . . . Bells toll for the dead, a burlesque parody of the Dies Irae. The witches' round dance. The dance and the Dies Irae are heard together.

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Berlioz is a MASTER composer. That particular movement is from "Symphonie Fantastique" and is called "Songe d'une nuit du Sabbat" (translation "Dream of a Witches' Sabbath) - Here is an excerpt from an inperpreation from my CD:

5th Movement / Dream of a Witches' Sabbath

He dreams that he is present at a witches' dance, surrounded by horrible spirits, amidst sorcerers and monsters in many fearful forms, who have come to assist at his funeral. Strange sounds, groans, shrill laughter, distant yells, which other cries seem to answer. The beloved melody is heard again but it has lost its noble and shy character; it has become a vulgar, trivial and grotesque dance-tune. She it is, who comes to attend the witches' meeting. Howls of joy greet her arrival . . . . She joins the infernal orgy . . . . Bells toll for the dead, a burlesque parody of the Dies Irae. The witches' round dance. The dance and the Dies Irae are heard together.

That's freaky. :laugh: Sounds like something out of Macbeth!

I've tried to get my hands on the soundtrack for the movie for YEARS, but it's so hard to find and expensive that I stopped looking. :distress:

[strandinthewind]

That's freaky. :laugh: Sounds like something out of Macbeth!

I've tried to get my hands on the soundtrack for the movie for YEARS, but it's so hard to find and expensive that I stopped looking. :distress:

The whole thing allegedly is about some girl (a famous actress of the time named Henrietta Smithson) who he could not have, dumped him, etc. Ah - Its only love :laugh:

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The whole thing allegedly is about some girl who he could not have, dumped him, etc. Ah - Its only love :laugh:

:laugh: If I was dating someone that freaky, I'd dump them, too. :woohoo:

[cliffdweller]

The heartbeats drove me mad.

Cute.

Yeah, those twin girls and the lady in the bathtub freaked me out the most. Stephen King said somewhere (the intro maybe?) that he knew he was going to write about the lady in the bathtub and he would count down the days until it came time to write it in. The idea scared him that much that he dreaded writing it!

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

Just watched this last night because I hadn't seen it in AGES and, my word, what a puzzling and scary flick. Can anyone really make any sense of the whole thing? There were so many different little things that just didn't add, yet fit perfectly into it.

The scene that scares the bejesus out of me every time is the one where Shelley Duvall is running up the stairs with the butcher knife and stops to look down the hall, then sees two men in a compromising position ( :laugh: ), only one of them is dressed as a bear. Scares me EVERY time. :nod:
When I was younger I used to watch every scary film going and none of them bothered me. When I was 15 I was babysitting one night and thought I would watch The Shining. I can honestly say it scared the **** out of me!

Pip

[ThePenguin]

This movie scared the sh*t out of me also. Not as much as the Exorcist though!

The twins really creeped me out, they were so freaky looking. In HS I remember me and some of my study hall friends memorized parts from The Shining. We used to crack each other up w/ our renditions of, "When I am IN here, that means that I am WORKING. THAT means, DON'T come in!" or "You're DISTRACTING me! It will then take me TIME to get BACK to WHERE I WAS!"

-Lis

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

This movie scared the sh*t out of me also. Not as much as the Exorcist though!



-Lis
You know.. the Exorcist didn't scare me at all. Yes it was gruesome at times but I didn't find it at all scary. Films that scare me the most now are more the supernatural, ghosty type films.

[strandinthewind]

You know.. the Exorcist didn't scare me at all. Yes it was gruesome at times but I didn't find it at all scary. Films that scare me the most now are more the supernatural, ghosty type films.

It scared me silly - I would not and could not sleep for like a month after seeing it!!!!!!

AND - I must say that I RAN (and mind you I am 6'4") to my car in the parking lot after seeing Silence of the Lambs :laugh:

[Patti]

You know.. the Exorcist didn't scare me at all. Yes it was gruesome at times but I didn't find it at all scary. Films that scare me the most now are more the supernatural, ghosty type films.

The film didn't scare me, but the book....OMG. I read it when I was in my teens, not too far from the same age as Regan. I slept with the light on for a month. Then one night I had a dream that *I* was possessed, but my furniture was in a different arrangement than what I really had. I didn't think anything about it at the time, but the next day I rearranged my furniture (not remembering the dream). Well, yep...I arranged the furniture just like in the dream and I never realized it until I went to bed that night. I laid there until about 3 in the morning, scared stiff and wide awake. I finally got up and moved the furniture back to its original arrangement. To this day, that is the scariest book I've ever read.

[sparky]

The film didn't scare me, but the book....OMG. I read it when I was in my teens, not too far from the same age as Regan. I slept with the light on for a month. Then one night I had a dream that *I* was possessed, but my furniture was in a different arrangement than what I really had. I didn't think anything about it at the time, but the next day I rearranged my furniture (not remembering the dream). Well, yep...I arranged the furniture just like in the dream and I never realized it until I went to bed that night. I laid there until about 3 in the morning, scared stiff and wide awake. I finally got up and moved the furniture back to its original arrangement. To this day, that is the scariest book I've ever read.

I agree completely. The book scared the hell out of me. I read it when I was probably 11. I was WAY into Stephen King. Slept with the light on - the whole nine yards. 'Salem's Lot was almost as frightening. I liked certain parts of the movie, but I don't think it holds a candle to the book. It freaked me out a bit, but not the way the book did. There was just no way they could do the hedge animals, which are what really got me in the book.

[cliffdweller]

AND - I must say that I RAN (and mind you I am 6'4") to my car in the parking lot after seeing Silence of the Lambs :laugh:


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AND - I must say that I RAN (and mind you I am 6'4") to my car in the parking lot after seeing Silence of the Lambs :laugh:

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"Put the lotion in the basket!"

[strandinthewind]

:laugh:

"Put the lotion in the basket!"

"It puts the lotion in the basket"

:eek: :eek:


" . . . and frankly Dr. Lector that reminds me of something Miggs might say"
"Not anymore"


CREEEEPY

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"It puts the lotion in the basket"

:eek: :eek:


" . . . and frankly Dr. Lector that reminds me of something Miggs might say"
"Not anymore"


CREEEEPY

I saw it when I was twelve and just remember being positively shocked at hearing the C-word. :laugh:

[strandinthewind]

I saw it when I was twelve and just remember being positively shocked at hearing the C-word. :laugh:

I know - and the semen hanging from her hair and on her face when Multiple Miggs threw it at her - EEEKKKKKKKKK!!!!!

BTW - I read the book in an afternoon - it was riveting!!!!!!

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I know - and the semen hanging from her hair and on her face when Multiple Miggs threw it at her - EEEKKKKKKKKK!!!!!

BTW - I read the book in an afternoon - it was riveting!!!!!!

I liked the book, but it didn't have a big effect on me because I had already seen the movie. I got Hannibal the day it came out and read it in three days, though. I was so disappointed witht hat piece of **** that I can't even describe it. It was AWFUL. Have you read it? It's quite different from the movie, which I liked.

[Serrart]

I liked the book, but it didn't have a big effect on me because I had already seen the movie. I got Hannibal the day it came out and read it in three days, though. I was so disappointed witht hat piece of **** that I can't even describe it. It was AWFUL. Have you read it? It's quite different from the movie, which I liked.

Of course you liked it, Anthony Hopkins is the best living actor :thumbsup: Okay I'm not very objective, but still... he's the best ;)


Scariest movies for me: Magic (with Tony again), Ringu (The Ring was its remake), Marathon Man, Duel

Romy

[Livia]

The Shining - book scared me more than the movie - I read the last third of it or so in one night. I knew I couldn't sleep until I finished reading it...."They call it....the shinin'..."

Exorcist-movie scared me more than the book, but now the movie just makes me laugh...you should hear my demon voice impression..."It's a lovely day for an exorcism...."

Silence of My Yams - I've read the trilogy out of sequence...I still have about 200 or so pages left of Red Dragon. I don't wanna finish it 'cause then I'll be done w/ the series. :p

"LOVE your suit!"

[Nixxxed]

I love The Shining - both the book and the movie, despite the differences. I thought Stanley Kubrick did a good job with the creepy tone & slowly-building-then-exploding pace of the movie. The tone and pace of the book always seemed a little inconsistent to me, but the detail and ultimate payoff were better... My favorite Stephen King book is still Carrie -- it is structured like a nonfiction research paper, and I constantly had to remind myself that I was reading a FICTION book.

The only movie that has ever really scared me to the core is The Amityville Horror, and to this day I have never watched it all the way through in one sitting. I always get to the "GEEEEEETTTTTTTTTT OUTTTTTTTTT" part and have to stop. Just knowing that it's based on a true story (and I know this is disuputed), and seeing those 3rd floor "eye" windows, I even get goosebumps when I see the cover of the video or DVD in the store. :shocked:

P.S. - I saw a documentary about the house and story on TV, and the new owners have remodeled the house, replacing the "eye" windows for small square ones. They said their problems with ghost hunters and movie fanatics stopped almost immediately after the change -- it made such a difference that most people don't even recognize the house.

[eclipse]

My 15 min. of fame....

I met Stephen King back "in the day"... it was at an English conference about creative writing and he was the guest speaker---anyway we shared a few michelob's and marlboro's after the conference...Really incredible guy, I was so interested in what he had to say-
(This was during the filming of the Shining- and he wasn't exactly thrilled with the direction that Kubrick was taking, although in hindsight----all of his movies are so low budget on screen, this one was the BEST) I loved everything about this movie ---the symentry that Kubrick created-the twins- the "All work and no play makes Jack...." Scary, scary ...great flick

As the years have gone by I have found that his books (unfortunately) are already written as a screenplay, too much description,too much blood-he used to write leaving so much about the charater to your own imagination ( as far as looks and style) Now- too descriptive for me, I like to think for myself..so I miss that part of his writing style and don't read as much as I used to. I agree Carrie is his best effort...Nice man though...
Anyway spooky movies for me?
How about the very first Nightmare on Elm Street-Halloween-Jaws-Rebecca-Jennifer 8- The Ring - Glass House-to name a few -PERSONALLY I like movies that keep me on the edge of my seat-not gore.... :o
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[celestenadia]

Red rum! Red rum!;)

[EveryHour]

Shelley Duvall is running up the stairs with the butcher knife and stops to look down the hall, then sees two men in a compromising position ( :laugh: ), only one of them is dressed as a bear.

What IS that part??!!! I suppose it's there solely to make you say, "What the hell?" and to perhaps make you feel like you're losing your mind too?

Don't even get me started...this is perhaps my favorite movie of all-time.

(Jack is a friggin' insane genius.)

[amber]

My 15 min. of fame....

I met Stephen King back "in the day"... it was at an English conference about creative writing and he was the guest speaker---anyway we shared a few michelob's and marlboro's after the conference...Really incredible guy, I was so interested in what he had to say-
(This was during the filming of the Shining- and he wasn't exactly thrilled with the direction that Kubrick was taking, although in hindsight----all of his movies are so low budget on screen, this one was the BEST) I loved everything about this movie ---the symentry that Kubrick created-the twins- the "All work and no play makes Jack...." Scary, scary ...great flick

As the years have gone by I have found that his books (unfortunately) are already written as a screenplay, too much description,too much blood-he used to write leaving so much about the charater to your own imagination ( as far as looks and style) Now- too descriptive for me, I like to think for myself..so I miss that part of his writing style and don't read as much as I used to. I agree Carrie is his best effort...Nice man though...
Anyway spooky movies for me?
How about the very first Nightmare on Elm Street-Halloween-Jaws-Rebecca-Jennifer 8- The Ring - Glass House-to name a few -PERSONALLY I like movies that keep me on the edge of my seat-not gore.... :o
~~eclipse~~
I don't like his books, but that's a cool story.... :wavey:
Amber

[strandinthewind]

What IS that part??!!! I suppose it's there solely to make you say, "What the hell?" and to perhaps make you feel like you're losing your mind too?

Don't even get me started...this is perhaps my favorite movie of all-time.

(Jack is a friggin' insane genius.)

It is a depiction of hell, which the Overlook sort of was, and that scene depicts sin - beastiality, fellatio, homosexuality, etc. At least that is what I read somewhere.

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It is a depiction of hell, which the Overlook sort of was, and that scene depicts sin - beastiality, fellatio, homosexuality, etc. At least that is what I read somewhere.

My thoughts were that Kubrick just put it in there to add to the overall atmosphere. In the book, there's a passage where King writes about a wealthy businessman who frequented the hotel with his gay lover. He made his lover dress up in a doggy suit and perform on him (I feel so silly typing this **** :laugh: ). Seeing as how including that part in the movie had no bearing on the story, I thought he jus tput it in there because it was a VERY creepy image.

[Livia]

This is brilliant! It takes awhile to download, but it's worth it. :D

Put the lotion in the basket (http://media.greenskeepersmusic.com/lotionhigh.mov)

[cliffdweller]

This is brilliant! It takes awhile to download, but it's worth it. :D

Put the lotion in the basket (http://media.greenskeepersmusic.com/lotionhigh.mov)

Where did you find this?!?!!? It's great.

[Livia]

Where did you find this?!?!!? It's great.

On the KLBJ website! LOL Coincidentally, they are Silence of the Lambs nuts, and someone just posted it today for Charlie. :)