When I watched it back in high school, I didn't realize what an MVP Tony was. He kept Danny updated on the situation throughout the movie. He put Danny in a protected state when it was too much to handle. He called Hallorann for help from the other side of the country. And he woke up Wendy, armed her, and warned her that Jack was coming.
Technically she was already armed; the knife came from the kitchen outside the store room....but Danny picked it up, and when she woke up she grabbed it, yes. Some say "How could she sleep through that?".....but she's gotta be exhausted, really
I think the implication is that Danny inherited the shine from his father, which is why both of them could see the ghosts haunting the hotel and Wendy had no idea. She only sees them at the end when things are totally out of control. In the end, the Overlook Hotel absorbed Jack and made him part of the crew as if he had always been. It wanted to eat the entire family but only got Jack.
I had a thought watching this reaction. Wendy doesn't see the ghosts until Halloran is killed. Maybe that had something to do with it. The hotel got his shine and became more powerful.
There was a line in the book where Halloran mused about Wendi and a mother's intuition, proffering that "maybe all mothers got a touch of the shine and just don't know it." Could be true and that the level of potent energies being expended by the hotel during the end game reached that threshold where even her lesser maternal sense could "see." Of course, at that same point of the story, the hotel was focusing an incredible amount of its attention/energy on her, trying to separate her from Dany so Jack could finish it's dark work.
I also always interpreted the end as the hotel absorbing Jack's soul (though it had really wanted the more powerful Danny) - like, Jack wouldn't have been in the photo had they shown it earlier and only appeared in it after he died - but that interpretation has always been a little mucked up by Delbert Grady's statement that "You've always been the caretaker." At first, I chalked that up to the Overlook gaslighting Jack, manipulating him, but there's another interesting detail in that scene that is often missed: Delbert Grady isn't the name of the previous caretaker that we hear about at the beginning of the film (the one who axe-murdered his family in the 1970s). That guy's name was Charles Grady. Looking further into it, I discovered an interview with Stanley Kubrick that sheds a tiny bit more light on the situation. Although he doesn't talk about what anything means in great detail, he does mention that there's an element of reincarnation at play. The insinuation was that there are certain souls connected to the Overlook who keep returning to life and are continually drawn back to it, life after life, to repeat the same cycle of temptation and madness. And you see, throughout the film, Jack gives in to every temptation: he falls off the wagon (and offers his soul for a glass of beer, an offer which the Hotel immediately takes him up on), he cheats on Wendy with the naked bath lady (who then turns to a corpse and mockingly laughs at him, presumably for being so weak), he indulges his anger on numerous occasions, etc, etc. So, in Kubrick's apparent interpretation of the situation, that person in the photo in the end isn't actually Jack Torrance, it's a previous incarnation of the soul that's currently inhabiting Jack Torrance and would've been in the photo all along. And that soul keeps choosing the bad path, life after life, and pays the price each time. Personally, I still prefer the non-reincarnation interpretation that you and I started with, that a person appears in the photo after the hotel absorbs their soul and Jack's appearance in the photo at the end means the hotel got him. But I figured I'd pass on the filmmakers interpretation too just because it's interesting to note what was actually intended to come across when he made the movie.
@@johnplaysgames3120 Sorry for the late response, I just discovered this channel. I could be wrong, but from what I vaguely remember from interviews and hearing about the story, the book goes into more detail about a lot of this stuff, and the "shining" plays a much bigger role in it (as does Halloran, I think). From what I kinda-sorta remember, I think Kubrick initially was going to include more of this stuff, but he had to cut it down. I haven't read the book, but I'd imagine that the book would probably give a more thorough explanation of things, and would make some of these details (like Jack being in the picture) more clear to the reader. Kubrick kinda skimmed over stuff because it's a movie, and it's his interpretation, but I also think he initially wanted to include more and tell a slightly different story (which I think the mini-series did, but the mini-series just wasn't as good in general, and probably included too *much* of that stuff, so it was more boring all-around). If you haven't seen the recent sequel (with Danny all grown up and going back to the hotel), called Doctor Sleep, it's worth a watch. I was pleasantly surprised because I didn't expect much from it. But it also explains a bit more about everything - though it's been a while since I saw it, so I forget exactly what the story is.
Actually, remember when Jack told Wendy he'd felt as if he'd been there before? I believe he was actually reincarnated; which would explain why he felt that way, and the ghosts from back in the early 1909's knew him so well. Perhaps he was actually Grady in his former life, and the woman in room 237 was his murdered wife from the past life.
The typewriter was not typing by itself. Wendy was turning the wheel to feed the paper through to see further down the page. When typing on old typewriters like that, where the keys hit is down much farther than the top where the paper comes out, there's a little window where you can read exactly what you're typing, but you have to scroll the wheel to get the paper out of the machine as it's held in quite securely.
@@zedwpd I’m so old that I actually brought a typewriter to college with me! It’s quite possible that Wendy just ignored that lever for whatever reason. Turning the wheel keeps the paper in place so you can go up and down to see what you wrote without messing up the placement of the paper and the alignment of the type. Once you pulled the paper out it could be very tricky to put it back in so as to keep the type lined up properly. I tried to make sure the page was completely done before pulling the lever to completely remove the paper. Sometimes I wouldn’t use the lever and just roll it out with the wheel, especially at the end of a page. If you made a mistake that you caught later you could use white-out on the type and then type over. High end type writers had a feature where you could actually type white over the black character as a way of erasing.
"Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.” For some reason Jack's delivery of that line cracks me up.
Fun fact: Jack Nicholson was a volunteer fire fighter. As such, breaking down doors was part of the job. When they tried using movie doors (the kind that break easy), Jack demolished them in a single swing. That's why the scene where he's breaking the bathroom door looks so good. That's a real axe being used on a solid wood door.
It's also the scene, i think soured jack on the director. And things between them, broke down quick afterwards. To a point they couldn't stand each other.
@@gohanangered9650I'm surprised they already hadn't soured even by then. There was one scene where they did 127 takes because Kubrick was such an obsessive perfectionist.
@@gohanangered9650 LOL maybe it was like Texas Chainsaw where Gunnar Hassan joked that when he was swinging the chainsaw in the air that he tried to hit Tobe Hooper with it.
@@gohanangered9650 Wasn't the line, "Here's Johnny" an improvisation by Jack that he didn't tell anyone about. If memory serves me (and it rarely does), it was a radio host who would call out like that at the beginning of his show.
You literally have the art to take a movie someone has seen a million times and make it feel like wer'e watching it for the first time. It's scary all over again.
Ahhh. Mike thank you so much for saying this. I can't tell you how happy it makes me to know that you're enjoying these. And that I can bring something fresh to movies that you've seen so many times. Thank you thank you thank you for being here!!! THIS MADE MY DAY!!!Kat:D
"Well the novel's complete. Critics have called it a bit repetitive." 🤣🤣 Truly one of the funniest things I have heard from any reactor about any movie!! Kat, I just discovered you two days ago, and I'm hooked! You have mastered the art of saying SO much while using very few words, and you are so fun and engaging. I want to recommend a gem that often gets overlooked, "Secret Window" with Johnny Depp. It takes you on a rollercoaster right up to the final act. Keep 'em coming!! 😊
...did discover Kat two days ago too, realised it while reading this comment. Some scary coincidence. Sorry to see the followers voted out Ju-On and made her watch The Grunge instead. Maybe it was for a reason tho.
Jack Nicholson is counted among the greatest acting talents by many fans, you can always tell a great actor by how much you love the character or hate the character, btw you are braver than me, there's no way I could watch a horror movie with a creepy little doll standing in the corner behind me 😧
My thoughts on what happened are that the hotel is collecting souls. Once you're collected it's like you have been there for all of time. It collects people by finding a weakness and exploiting it. Jack has an anger problem. He was trying to improve at the beginning (after breaking Danny's arm he quit drinking if I remember rightly) but the hotel broke his mind and convinced him to kill everyone
Per the book the hotel wants Danny to die on the premises so it can absorb his power, which is supposed to be of a greater raw potential than Dick's power. Plus because of his relationship with his father, he inherits some connection to the evil forces. Where as Dick and Tony (Future Danny) have better defenses against its influence. Now of course King doesn't really go into the mechanics of the Overlook hotel, just that its power has something to do with the past events that happened there providing spiritual and connection with evil entities, and feeding off the ghosts that are bound to it. In the film Kubrick suggested that the overlook was a Native American spiritual site held a conduit to another world/plane and that the hotel somehow merges all the people and power it claims into its evil past.
In the novel, you feel bad for Wendy Danny and even Jack. Because Jack is honestly trying to keep his shut together and he just falls apart before the reader slowly and painfully
The movie was scary but the book was 10x scarier because it allows your imagination to fill in the blanks. I started reading The Shining when i was 12 and only got about 1/4 of the way through it before I had to put it down. Didn't pick it back up to re-read until 5 years later, and even at 17 it was scary as hell.
Watching the Director's Cut of Doctor Sleep is a must if you loved this movie. Doctor Sleep has become by favorite horror movie/adaptation of all time. Such an amazing horror epic that expands more into the Stephen King universe and the Shining itself. Can't wait to see your reaction to it.
It was really interesting seeing Ewan McGregor in that role. He did a really good job with Polanski's The Ghost Writer, and somehow that carried into Dr. Sleep as well.
I don't think Jack was a villain at all. He was a victim of the Hotel. He was just weak minded and the most easily possessed. Or maybe the Hotel put more effort into taking his soul because he was the physically strongest. It did the same thing with the previous father. Jack was the most useful.
@michaelbuhl4250 Right? Who made these copyright laws anyway? They should be done away with. Hollywood and the movie industry has too much money and power because of them
I thought he was just a nice, normal guy who’s reacting the same way any of us would if we were shut up in a hotel with their wife and kid for more than a week.
@@mookiewilson4166 Stephen King claimed Nicholson appeared "Crazy from the start" but I never saw that, I thought he seemed like an ordinary guy like you said; A frustrated writer maybe, and there were a few signs that he had some contempt for his wife
A bit of a yarn, but stay with me. I had a microwave that would beep for no reason, just randomly, even if I wasn't using it. I smashed it, like 90s kids do when things don't work, and it stopped. Months later, after having been quiet that entire time, it went off EXACTLY when the alarms started going off in 1408. Threw that fucker off my 14th floor balcony. Not sure I've ever been so scared.
@@misterderp4566 I will say this from personal experience: there is NOTHING more terrifying than being in a hotel hallway when the power goes out. Don't ask.
@@martinholt8168 I dunno about that, but I used to work at Denver Airport (which has its own urban legend/conspiracy theory background) and I was working the graveyard shift in the basement of the airport when the power went out. Didn't even have my phone on me and had no idea how to find my way out. Just had to stand there in the darkest darkness I've ever experienced till the power came back on.
@@misterderp4566 you threw a microwave off the 14th floor balcony. And you weren't arrested? Bro...keep telling stories. One day you'll be real good at it.
The thing about the nd is that the film is about cycles. That's why so many things change, like Grady's first name is different when Halloran tells the story than what he says it is in the bathroom, or when it was that Jack broke Danny's collarbone, or stopped drinking. These aren't continuity errors, they are intentional. It's to show that all of this stuff has happened before, and will happen again. Jack has always been the caretaker and Jack has always been abusive to his family. At the end Wendy and Danny escape the cycle when they survive and flee, but Jack doesn't, and he's trapped in it. That's a little simplistic, but if you look at this film as a collection of cycles you'd be amazed how many there are and how much they intertwine.
I think ending just means Jack’s spirit is forever trapped in the hotel now, just like Grady & the rest. So the next caretaker may even have a talk with Jack in the restroom. Also… Tony was a real one! It’s delightful that Danny’s dark passenger was like “Hi Mrs. Torrence… as the weird spirit that inhabits your child, just a courtesy heads up that there’s an even weirder, malicious spirit inhabiting your this hotel AND your hubby, and we should go! You know… FYI.” 😅
@@Bluesit32 Per the book, Tony is a projection of Danny through time. Danny's shining is more unique and stronger being able to summon himself "like looking into a magic mirror reflecting himself" from a possible version 10 years in the future. So Tony (future danny) steps in and talks to Danny, or takes over, whenever the situation is too difficult for Danny's childhood self to deal with. Which is also why he was able to call Dick Hallorann as soon as Danny went away, as he has more experience with The Shining abilities. The overlook wants to use Jack, who was connected to evil by his father's continual abuse and forming Jack's hatred of meek women, to trap Danny's soul in the hotel allowing it to feed of his powers and have greater range and control over time. This then mimics Danny encountering Abra Stone who is stronger then Danny, and the True Knot wants to absorb her powers allowing them to live for many centuries.
If the bathroom door seemed sturdy, it's because it was overbuilt. Jack Nicholson used to be a firefighter, and he chopped through the original door too quickly, so they had to build it more strongly the second time. Also, not sure if this counts as a legitimate horror movie, but The Village is one of my favorites.
Kat, There aren’t enough comments in the world to summarize how fantastic you are. *Kat sees the ocean of blood* “That must be the red rum! I thought it was just MurDeR spelled backwards.” Now, I’m going to kitchen for a glass of water cause I must be *thirsty*
I've been waiting for you to witness this one lol. You're rocking this genre, you've only been posting for a couple of months and you've already gotten through so many of the big ones lol. "Well the novels done, critics have called it a bit repetitive." If I had been drinking something it would have ended up all over my phone lol!
HIIIII JOHN WELCOME BACK!!! Ahh. That means a LOT to me. I am very very proud of myself for tackling some of these big ones... I feel like it's important to start with the classics, seeing as they paved the way! ALSO HAHAHA I won't lie to you, that's my favourite part. So you highlighting it MAKES ME VERY HAPPY. Evidently, we have the same sense of humor. HAPPY NEW YEAR PAL!! ALL THE BEST TO YOU!! Kat:D
@@KatWatchesHorror oh yes, sometimes you just have to jump into the pool with both feet lol. Great to be back and a very Happy New Year to you as well! As for the ending, Kubrick, being the very enigmatic director he was, left it ambiguous on purpose, but one of the more popular theories among fans is that Jack was a reincarnation of the man we saw in the July 4th Ball picture. You may differ but it does explain why he felt such a strong sense of deja vu, because he had literally been there before. Now that you've seen this, I strongly recommend checking out the sequel 'Doctor Sleep' that came out a couple of years ago, it's amazing. Love it all, keep it up! 😎
I love this channel. On the one hand, somewhere deep down part of me feels bad deriving so much pleasure from watching someone else suffer. On the other hand, your ability to inject humour into the most stressful situations gives me hope for humanity 🙂
Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall were so perfectly cast in this great film. So is Danny Lloyd, the little boy. They looked like a real, terrified family in seclusion. Very terrifying. Brilliantly done.
I thought the ending meant jack’s soul was taken by the spirits or the hotel. But here is a statement about that from online: As Stanley Kubrick explains, “It's supposed to suggest a kind of evil reincarnation cycle, where he [Jack] is part of the hotel's history, just as in the men's room, he's talking to the former caretaker [Grady], the ghost of the former caretaker, who says to him, 'you are the caretaker; you've always been the caretaker ...
I've watched this movie more times than I can count and I never noticed before that there was no "wet floor" sign. Thank you for enhancing the experience.
The tenth or so time I watched this film, I started to realise that everything that happened has happened before. Wendy takes Danny to the maze: 'I'm gonna getcha!' and later: Jack chases Danny into the maze to 'get' him. Both do not succeed. Halloran shows Wendy a freezer and the dry goods store. Wendy puts Jack in the dry good store, later he freezes. Many examples of this in this film. It's made of earlier incidents being repeated. Such as butler Delbert Grady of the 1930s returning to kill his wife and daughters as Charles Grady in 1970. Or Mr. Torrance of the 4th of July ball 1920s returning as Jack Torrance in 1980.
Good interpretation. There's a line (forgot where I got it from) that fits perfect. All things, that happen in our lives have happened before. Only the circumstances have changed.
It's well known know that Kubrick really treated Shelley Duvall like an abused spouse during the shooting. He was mean and abusive to her, ostensibly for the purpose of eliciting a better and more believable performance from her. I mean, i guess it worked, but damn. Also the kid that played Danny had no idea what the movie was about. He only shot his scenes, and never knew about the blood or the axe murders or any of that stuff.
I think some of the mistreatment of Shelley (RIP) has been debunked. Kubrick was a very controlling director, but I think the stories ultimately related more to her mental health issues than him (could have seen some misinformation, correct me if I'm wrong). On the second point, that's confirmed true. Danny was told it was a family drama, not a horror film and they treated shooting as such. Fortunately for him, he grew up to be Ewan McGregor. ;p
9:35 This sequence cracks me up: (Jack tells Wendy off) Kat: "Oh my God! Wendy have a little self-respect!" (pause as Kat leans in anticipating Wendy's response) Wendy: "ok" Disappointed Kat: "Alright"
lol, it's not a haunted typewriter, she was turning the sidewheel and making it scroll. and the reason they showed wendy reading all the pages was to show that jack snapped a LOOOOONG time ago. anyway, HILARIOUS reaction, as usual! you are soooo funny when you are terrified lol
I mean you're not wrong, but I always take umbridge with "snapped" because Jack is literally being mentally assaulted by ghosts trying to manipulate/control/posses him.
@@OpenMawProductions But didn't he previously hurt Danny before going to the hotel? Though he said it was an accident, but I imagine he just considers it an accident because he was probably drunk at the time, and that probably ties into why he was trying to stop drinking. I think he "snapped" near the beginning of the movie, but I think he's always been a shitty person in general. Though I guess you could argue that he was being influenced by the hotel even prior to actually going there (if his soul is like a reincarnation of the former caretaker), but regardless, I'd say he was generally a bad person either way. And I think he was mentally "weak" to begin with, and that allowed the hotel to more easily influence him.
"critics have called it a bit repetitive" cracked me up, haha. another amazing reaction, tnx. love how you are on point with the plot twists, and your julia roberts smile doesn't hurt the overall experience, haha...
"Come play with us, Kat!" 🤣 Glad you watched this, it's a classic. Also, if you ever get the chance, watch the 3 part TV movie version with Rebecca De Mornay and Steven Weber. King didn't like Kubrick's version, so he wrote the screenplay and bankrolled the TV version and it's a lot closer to the book. Definitely worth a watch! Also, Happy New Year! I hope it's an amazing and successful one for you!
I remember when they announced the series. Came home from work geeking out to watch it. King said he didn’t like the Kubrick’, said “it didn’t have a heart.”
As someone who read the book first I totally prefer the TV miniseries overall due to the inclusion of so much more of the creepy stuff from the book, BUT I do still think the directing and acting is far better in the movie.
Hi Kat, I just discovered your channel. Your facial expressions are perfectly entertaining, as are your very animated reactions and witty responses. This is what makes top tier reaction videos! It's so funny when you go from physically composed to instant karate defense pose, then slowly devolve position into holding your face. And your 4th wall gazes into the camera are hilarious.
The real villain is the hotel itself. It takes over Jack's soul and uses him against Danny and Wendy. By the end, the hotel has completely absorbed Jack, which is how he ends up in the picture.
Hi Kat! I'm a new-comer to your channel and have been binging your videos for the past couple weeks. Really love what you're doing and always interested to hear "what the real horror" of each of these movies are! Thanks for all the great content!
19:23 Best woman to watch a scary movie with ever, Kat. I don’t know how Annabelle or whatever your friend’s name in the corner is holds it together. Stephen King hates this movie and the trick ending in particular, which he blamed Stanley Kubrick for not knowing was hackneyed. I think it means the Overlook Hotel was an entity and it devoured souls. While not very scary, _Doctor Sleep_ (2019) is a terrific legacy sequel. Ewan McGregor plays an adult Danny and due to the enduring popularity of _The Shining_ , Warner Bros. spared no expense producing. A lot of horror films and also sequels skimp on their budgets but not this one. Next scary movie? How about _Poltergeist_ (1982)?
You bring so much new life to these movies that I've seen a dozen (some possibly a hundred) times. You are so expressive and a true joy to watch. Once I climb out of my homeless situation and get my life back in order I hope I can do something to support your channel to repay the joy and fun you bring to the world. Thank you.
There is no one on TH-cam that makes me laugh and entertains me as much as you do! Right from the get go with that car commercial comment during the opening credits! 😂😅
The best part of this movie is that there is no perfect theory explaining it all. It was designed that way. There are many good theories out there. You get to pick one you like best. What a movie.
Couple a fun facts! The actress who played Wendy was _very_ sick with the flu when they filmed. That's why she looks so, well, sick. The dark circles, the clamminess, the paleness? Yep, that was all real! She was genuinely super sick! Also, she was _terrified_ of Jack Nicholson. He never properly introduced himself to her before filming, and on set, he did a _lot_ of improv. The entire iconic dialogue on the stairs of "I'm not gonna hurt ya, I'm just gonna bash your brains in" was _improv._ That wasn't scripted. So imagine, being _very_ sick with the flu, and a man who never really introduced himself to you is going _off script_ and manically confessing he wishes to harm you. Yeah... a lot of Wendy's fear wasn't actually acting! And Jack Nicholson never interacted with her outside of filming until the _end of filming._ So this man, who constantly went of script with insane threats of violence, never fucking spoke to her outside of the scenes they filmed. Add being sick on top, and you get genuine fear. Other fun facts: The actor that played Danny never knew he was in a horror movie! He found out much later in life, because his memories of filming consisted mainly of memorizing lines to say, and riding a big wheel down hallways. He spent most of the time playing with the other actors and staff, and so never realized there was anything scary about his scenes! Final fun fact: The twins never did any other acting outside of The Shining. They have a combined screen time of less than 5 minutes, I believe, and are known as the most famous actors with the least amount of total screentime in the world!
What's NOT fun is the shit Kubrick subjected Shelly Duvall to especially when she seems to have a very, very passive personality. A different actress might have cursed him out and walked off
This was an awesome reaction. Also Jack being in the picture again is likely meant to show that his soul was just another of the many ghosts that are stuck to haunt the hotel. All the people in that final picture are likely ghosts in the hotel.
Loved your reaction to the "bear job". As for the ending, like any Kubrick film, it's up to you to decide. Kubrick's not one for explaining things. My first take when I saw it was that the hotel had absorbed his soul.
@@JDelwynn That's one interpretation. There is also the idea that there aren't any ghosts in the hotel at all. We all know Kubrick loved creating intriguing films.
If you’re talking about the scene where Wendy sees the man in costume doing explicit things to another man, it’s a reference to the book that wasn’t widely shown for a reason. Danny sees a dog man with its head on upside down (and I believe, walking backwards on all fours), that shouts its going to do sexual things to him and he runs away, from my memory. I haven’t read it in years, but as an adult I’m halfway through a re-read. Haven’t gotten to that part yet, but I remember it used to be the scariest part to me as a kid. (I should also not have been allowed to read this as a kid.)
Hi Kat, it is wonderful watching horror movies with you. Your comments are hillarious. thank you for making me smile.please keep up your great reactions.
The Shining is one of my all time favorite films. So glad you did this vid! Kubrick was all about symbolism. This film has been dissected by many. You could dive Deep down a rabbit hole with this film.
Only recently found your channel and got to admit you are so funny, excellent to re watch a classic movie I've watched numerous times and still enjoy your reaction. The red rum quote with the blood is a classic and made me lol. Got notifications on and keep up the good work. All the best from Scotland.
I love the twist of this movie… it turns out that Jack Torrence was the 1 who murdered his family who they were talking about at the beginning of the movie
Oh Kat! I love watching people react to this movie. Your timing of "where's the happy ending?" was impeccable. Just then they show Wendy interrupting the happy ending to the man on the bed. LOL. I laugh every time I re watch this.
I remember when I was about 11, telling my Mum, “So and so lent me The Shining!” She said, “What? Absolutely not! Oh, the book? Okay then” my Mum didn’t care what I read, as long as I was reading. This was also one of the few movies my dad didn’t let me watch until I was 14
Absolutely loved this! The Shining is definitely my favourite horror film. My interpretation of the picture at the end from 1921 is that like Grady, Jack's soul has been claimed by the hotel and he's trapped forever in its history and now he's become one of the ghosts. I believe that's what Grady meant when he said 'You've always been the caretaker'.
The beast got what it wanted..... Remember. The hotel is alive. You can see it in the way it is build. There is no way you can recreate the building as it is depicted. Scewed architecture because it is a living thing.
The reason for the “good quality bathroom door” was because Jack Nicholson was once a volunteer firefighter and blew right through the prop doors made for the scenes of him breaking into the room and bathroom, so Stanley Kubrick had them replaced with real wooden doors.
Hi Kat, I just stumbled across your channel today and have watched four of your reactions already. Just for the record: I do have a life - well... kind of! Your reactions are awesome! Your facial expressions are absolutely priceless and to me you are the new "scream queen"! Speaking of "The Shining", it's one of the best movies of all time for me and Jack Nicholson's acting is just brilliant! Keep up the great work/fun and I will come back for more of your reactions! Greetings from Hamburg/Germany
Yep! You just showed me exactly what my brain was doing when i first saw the photo reveal at the end. Your reaction to the guy in the bear suit at the top of the stairs 🤣 😂 Seriously though Kat, thanks for doing these reactions, I'm late to the party on this channel as i only found you about a week ago. Currently im binging from the beginning after seeing your Carrie last week. I'm dreading when i catch up and have to wait for a week between 😮.
I don't subscribe to channels very often, but I love your commentary and humor, so, what the heck. One of my favorite horror movies is with Kate Hudson. It's called Skeleton Key. The nice thing is that there is hardly any gore. It's just a really well told ghost story.
I looked through about 50 comments and didnt see the "right" answer to your question, so here it is... Most people are saying the picture shows Jack's soul had been captured by the Overlook, but Kubrick said specifically it's to indicate that Jack has reincarnated. The 1921 picture shows him as one of the previous caretakers of the hotel, which is furthered both when he says he feels deja vu there and when Grady tells him he's always been the caretaker.
One of our local movie theaters installed full carpeting that is identical to the hotel's carpet pattern and they have a simulated hallway of the hotel going into the wall. So cool!! Oh and I've been to Timberline Lodge at Mt. Hood in Oregon which is the inspiration for the exterior although the interior and maze were filmed in England.
I was in Colorado, Estes Park because I'd been told The Stanley Hotel was the location for The Shining. Was it used for some exterior shots? I thought, but something didn't seem right. It was only when walking around the hotel interior, seeing 'stills' from movie that I asked a staff member. 'Yes, that's right. They filmed The Shining here...' Further investigation revealed it was the location for The Shining TV Mini Series. We never saw that here in the UK. It was a bit of a disappointment and quite the detour to go and see it. (Long before smartphones and Google.)
The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park was the inspiration for the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's original book. They (obviously) didn't use the Stanley for this movie, but if you listen to the weather report on the TV news, that is (supposed to be) coming from Denver. The newscaster is Bertha Lynn, who was a very well-known local anchorwoman in Denver at the time. For the TV miniseries, they finally filmed much of it *at* the actual Stanley Hotel. But what is really funny about that is that the Overlook is supposed to be waaayyyy up in the mountains, all by itself, and totally snowed in during the Winter months. But if you go to Estes Park, the Stanley Hotel is actually not far off of the main road that runs through Estes Park; it's not at all isolated from the rest of the town, the way the Overlook was isolated from the (fictional) town of Sidewinder, in the story. So, inspiration = yes. But not duplication.
Totally worth the wait. This is on the Mount Rushmore of horror movies without a doubt. Leave it to Kat to be more concerned with wet floor signs and creepy corners than with the psychopathic murderer in the hotel. You never disappoint. I also loved watching your opinion of Mr Hallorann move from distrust to he's gonna be the hero to the look on your face when the axe hit his chest. Also when you declared about Jack "this guy sucks" when he hadn't yet scratched the surface of suckage. Your top comment for me was that the critics have called his novel "a bit repetitive" Hilarious. You closed strong with a spot on Tony and your recognition of a quality bathroom door. PS eleven or so ummmms is the proper amount of ummmms for what you saw in that bedroom. You are the queen!!! Looking forward to whatever comes next.
During the opening credits, the road he is driving on is located in Glacier National Park in Montana. It's called 'The Going to the Sun Highway' which is because when you drive on it from the east side of the park, heading west, there are parts where it feels like you are driving to the sun. It's a great drive, as long as you bring shades. The hotel in the film is not in the park, it is back east in New England. Great Reactions, It's truly funny watching someone who hates horror films...watch them. It's like strapping my retentive dad to a chair and forcing him to watch someone fold a map the wrong way. :)
I think this is an allegorical film. I believe Jack (and the hotel) represent societal evil and cruelty throughout the generations. Wendy and Halloran represent the victims of such evil and Danny is the younger, smarter generation who can outwit these evils. I think that's what makes Jack's character so deeply unsettling. He represents a deep, very real, human evil. An evil that seems inherent to the human species. Also one of the most harrowing depections of domestic abuse I've ever seen in a film. Nicholson is great, of course, but this would not have worked without Shelley Duvall's performance. She is amazing and crucial as a foil to his terrorism. This is my favorite film of all time and this has been one of my favorite watch-throughs of it and I've been binging them lately, so thanks for the good work!
Great reaction, Kat!! As for the ending, Kubrick didn’t like to talk about the endings of his films too much since he felt it was more thought-provoking to leave them ambiguous, but there was an old phone conversation that leaked recently where he admitted that the ending of this movie was showing how basically the Hotel had consumed Jack and he became part of its endless cycle of evil reincarnation.
@@HorySmokes This is also hinted at by the fact that the servant he talks to in the red bathroom is Delbert Grady. The man who we hear about at the beginning of the movie - the one who axe-murdered his family in the 1970s - is Charles Grady. It's not the same person. In the interpretation Kubrick hinted at, Charles might've been a reincarnation of Delbert in the same way that Jack might've been a reincarnation of the guy in the photo at the end. Basically, souls that are doomed to return life after life, get drawn to the hotel, and end up caught in a repeating cycle of temptation, madness, and murder.
Kubrick put Shelley Duvall and Nicholson both through absolute hell during this movie. Her continued mental breakdown and physical exhaustion throughout the movie are very real. Most notably, Kubrick made them run the the baseball bat scene something like 127 times. By the end of it they were both so at the end of their rope that Kubrick deemed it believable. Also, I subscribed to you today after watching like 10 of your more recent videos. Binge watched a bunch today. I have to say that compared to videos around the 10 month+ old mark, you have exponentially increased your ability to deal with your fear and jump scares. You're slowly but surely becoming a pro.
26:58 The other rooms didn't have any heating, so Wendy and Danny would have frozen a lot if they picked any other rooms - also, people often feel uneasy in rooms that they are unfamiliar with, and the room that they had been given to them probably felt most comforting to them, and they probably assumed that Jack wouldn't be able to escape from the pantry.
One of the caretaker's tasks was to heat the rooms on a rotating basis so they (and the hotel's water pipes) wouldn't freeze, but Jack had stopped doing so. It's an important plot point in the book, which has a different ending.
It's so funny how whenever you watch a horror film or just a film with horror in it you are nervous in expectation of horror through 100% of the runtime lmao.
"The novel's complete. Critics are calling it repetitive." BEST QUOTE EVER FOR THE SHINING
When I watched it back in high school, I didn't realize what an MVP Tony was. He kept Danny updated on the situation throughout the movie. He put Danny in a protected state when it was too much to handle. He called Hallorann for help from the other side of the country. And he woke up Wendy, armed her, and warned her that Jack was coming.
Tony is grown up Danny in the future, projecting himself back to help his infant self/mother.
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Technically she was already armed; the knife came from the kitchen outside the store room....but Danny picked it up, and when she woke up she grabbed it, yes. Some say "How could she sleep through that?".....but she's gotta be exhausted, really
He called Hallorann to his death.
@@Clefus-o6b That's complete BS. Don't take that comment of mine so literally.
I think the implication is that Danny inherited the shine from his father, which is why both of them could see the ghosts haunting the hotel and Wendy had no idea. She only sees them at the end when things are totally out of control. In the end, the Overlook Hotel absorbed Jack and made him part of the crew as if he had always been. It wanted to eat the entire family but only got Jack.
I had a thought watching this reaction. Wendy doesn't see the ghosts until Halloran is killed. Maybe that had something to do with it. The hotel got his shine and became more powerful.
There was a line in the book where Halloran mused about Wendi and a mother's intuition, proffering that "maybe all mothers got a touch of the shine and just don't know it." Could be true and that the level of potent energies being expended by the hotel during the end game reached that threshold where even her lesser maternal sense could "see." Of course, at that same point of the story, the hotel was focusing an incredible amount of its attention/energy on her, trying to separate her from Dany so Jack could finish it's dark work.
I also always interpreted the end as the hotel absorbing Jack's soul (though it had really wanted the more powerful Danny) - like, Jack wouldn't have been in the photo had they shown it earlier and only appeared in it after he died - but that interpretation has always been a little mucked up by Delbert Grady's statement that "You've always been the caretaker." At first, I chalked that up to the Overlook gaslighting Jack, manipulating him, but there's another interesting detail in that scene that is often missed: Delbert Grady isn't the name of the previous caretaker that we hear about at the beginning of the film (the one who axe-murdered his family in the 1970s). That guy's name was Charles Grady.
Looking further into it, I discovered an interview with Stanley Kubrick that sheds a tiny bit more light on the situation. Although he doesn't talk about what anything means in great detail, he does mention that there's an element of reincarnation at play. The insinuation was that there are certain souls connected to the Overlook who keep returning to life and are continually drawn back to it, life after life, to repeat the same cycle of temptation and madness. And you see, throughout the film, Jack gives in to every temptation: he falls off the wagon (and offers his soul for a glass of beer, an offer which the Hotel immediately takes him up on), he cheats on Wendy with the naked bath lady (who then turns to a corpse and mockingly laughs at him, presumably for being so weak), he indulges his anger on numerous occasions, etc, etc. So, in Kubrick's apparent interpretation of the situation, that person in the photo in the end isn't actually Jack Torrance, it's a previous incarnation of the soul that's currently inhabiting Jack Torrance and would've been in the photo all along. And that soul keeps choosing the bad path, life after life, and pays the price each time.
Personally, I still prefer the non-reincarnation interpretation that you and I started with, that a person appears in the photo after the hotel absorbs their soul and Jack's appearance in the photo at the end means the hotel got him. But I figured I'd pass on the filmmakers interpretation too just because it's interesting to note what was actually intended to come across when he made the movie.
@@johnplaysgames3120 Sorry for the late response, I just discovered this channel. I could be wrong, but from what I vaguely remember from interviews and hearing about the story, the book goes into more detail about a lot of this stuff, and the "shining" plays a much bigger role in it (as does Halloran, I think). From what I kinda-sorta remember, I think Kubrick initially was going to include more of this stuff, but he had to cut it down. I haven't read the book, but I'd imagine that the book would probably give a more thorough explanation of things, and would make some of these details (like Jack being in the picture) more clear to the reader. Kubrick kinda skimmed over stuff because it's a movie, and it's his interpretation, but I also think he initially wanted to include more and tell a slightly different story (which I think the mini-series did, but the mini-series just wasn't as good in general, and probably included too *much* of that stuff, so it was more boring all-around).
If you haven't seen the recent sequel (with Danny all grown up and going back to the hotel), called Doctor Sleep, it's worth a watch. I was pleasantly surprised because I didn't expect much from it. But it also explains a bit more about everything - though it's been a while since I saw it, so I forget exactly what the story is.
Actually, remember when Jack told Wendy he'd felt as if he'd been there before? I believe he was actually reincarnated; which would explain why he felt that way, and the ghosts from back in the early 1909's knew him so well. Perhaps he was actually Grady in his former life, and the woman in room 237 was his murdered wife from the past life.
The typewriter was not typing by itself. Wendy was turning the wheel to feed the paper through to see further down the page. When typing on old typewriters like that, where the keys hit is down much farther than the top where the paper comes out, there's a little window where you can read exactly what you're typing, but you have to scroll the wheel to get the paper out of the machine as it's held in quite securely.
there is actually a lever that release the wheel from holding the paper so you can pull it out in one tug.
@@zedwpd I’m so old that I actually brought a typewriter to college with me! It’s quite possible that Wendy just ignored that lever for whatever reason. Turning the wheel keeps the paper in place so you can go up and down to see what you wrote without messing up the placement of the paper and the alignment of the type. Once you pulled the paper out it could be very tricky to put it back in so as to keep the type lined up properly. I tried to make sure the page was completely done before pulling the lever to completely remove the paper. Sometimes I wouldn’t use the lever and just roll it out with the wheel, especially at the end of a page. If you made a mistake that you caught later you could use white-out on the type and then type over. High end type writers had a feature where you could actually type white over the black character as a way of erasing.
"Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.” For some reason Jack's delivery of that line cracks me up.
'As thoon as pothebal?'
Every line's delivered brilliantly. Easily one of the most quotable performances ever.
*Light* of my *life*
@@TeamMemberNumberEight Fair enough
I agree...also to Lloyd: "Kinda slow tonight, isn't it?"
Fun fact: Jack Nicholson was a volunteer fire fighter. As such, breaking down doors was part of the job. When they tried using movie doors (the kind that break easy), Jack demolished them in a single swing. That's why the scene where he's breaking the bathroom door looks so good. That's a real axe being used on a solid wood door.
It's also the scene, i think soured jack on the director. And things between them, broke down quick afterwards. To a point they couldn't stand each other.
@@gohanangered9650I'm surprised they already hadn't soured even by then. There was one scene where they did 127 takes because Kubrick was such an obsessive perfectionist.
@@gohanangered9650 LOL maybe it was like Texas Chainsaw where Gunnar Hassan joked that when he was swinging the chainsaw in the air that he tried to hit Tobe Hooper with it.
@@gohanangered9650 Wasn't the line, "Here's Johnny" an improvisation by Jack that he didn't tell anyone about. If memory serves me (and it rarely does), it was a radio host who would call out like that at the beginning of his show.
@@aaronmicalowe Yeah i think it was improvised.
You literally have the art to take a movie someone has seen a million times and make it feel like wer'e watching it for the first time. It's scary all over again.
Her "The Thing" reaction is really great too!
@@justinmccarty3886 i think I saw that one too ❤
I am so glad TH-cam suggested her channel. She's the best. So charismatic and funny.
Kat makes me laugh in EVERY reaction. My favorite part is when she says things like "Please" or "Not the slow turn".
Ahhh. Mike thank you so much for saying this. I can't tell you how happy it makes me to know that you're enjoying these. And that I can bring something fresh to movies that you've seen so many times. Thank you thank you thank you for being here!!! THIS MADE MY DAY!!!Kat:D
"Well the novel's complete. Critics have called it a bit repetitive." 🤣🤣
Truly one of the funniest things I have heard from any reactor about any movie!!
Kat, I just discovered you two days ago, and I'm hooked! You have mastered the art of saying SO much while using very few words, and you are so fun and engaging. I want to recommend a gem that often gets overlooked, "Secret Window" with Johnny Depp. It takes you on a rollercoaster right up to the final act.
Keep 'em coming!! 😊
...did discover Kat two days ago too, realised it while reading this comment. Some scary coincidence. Sorry to see the followers voted out Ju-On and made her watch The Grunge instead. Maybe it was for a reason tho.
The bear scene..”umm..ummm…umm..glance at the camera…ummm..”
😂😂😂😂
Yep, she forgot to say, "Avert your eyes!"
"Where's the happy ending" ...seconds before they show a guy that just got a happy ending
Jack Nicholson is counted among the greatest acting talents by many fans, you can always tell a great actor by how much you love the character or hate the character, btw you are braver than me, there's no way I could watch a horror movie with a creepy little doll standing in the corner behind me 😧
What doll? I don't see a doll there, do you?
@@falcychead8198 In some o these videos I think I've seen him move up closer, I think he likes to watch too
@@falcychead8198 No-one else sees a doll, right? 😉
Y'all there's a creepy doll in the background of kats videos in her room
Yeah especially with her doll and how she moves it around a little bit for the edit ❤
My thoughts on what happened are that the hotel is collecting souls. Once you're collected it's like you have been there for all of time. It collects people by finding a weakness and exploiting it. Jack has an anger problem. He was trying to improve at the beginning (after breaking Danny's arm he quit drinking if I remember rightly) but the hotel broke his mind and convinced him to kill everyone
Anger and alcohol problem.
Pulled from your ass like everybody else who watches this shitty movie.
Per the book the hotel wants Danny to die on the premises so it can absorb his power, which is supposed to be of a greater raw potential than Dick's power. Plus because of his relationship with his father, he inherits some connection to the evil forces. Where as Dick and Tony (Future Danny) have better defenses against its influence.
Now of course King doesn't really go into the mechanics of the Overlook hotel, just that its power has something to do with the past events that happened there providing spiritual and connection with evil entities, and feeding off the ghosts that are bound to it.
In the film Kubrick suggested that the overlook was a Native American spiritual site held a conduit to another world/plane and that the hotel somehow merges all the people and power it claims into its evil past.
You can check out if you like, but you can never leave.
Wow. This lady is legit funny & quick. She's super animated with raw reactions. She's just raised the bar for reaction-video's to Olympic levels.
She really cool and funny. Love her!
Katt is awesome 🌷❤
In the novel, you feel bad for Wendy Danny and even Jack. Because Jack is honestly trying to keep his shut together and he just falls apart before the reader slowly and painfully
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The movie was scary but the book was 10x scarier because it allows your imagination to fill in the blanks. I started reading The Shining when i was 12 and only got about 1/4 of the way through it before I had to put it down. Didn't pick it back up to re-read until 5 years later, and even at 17 it was scary as hell.
And the hotel explodes.
@scoobysnacks the book was much better
@@GinaPressleyeh dunno about much better, I think both are masterpieces in their own way
22:19 "Give him your honest feedback" 😅
27:38 "That's a good quality bathroom door if you think about it" 🤪
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The b&w framed photograph at the end represents all the souls consumed by the Overlook.
Except for the guy that Jack killed? I doubt it
Watching the Director's Cut of Doctor Sleep is a must if you loved this movie. Doctor Sleep has become by favorite horror movie/adaptation of all time. Such an amazing horror epic that expands more into the Stephen King universe and the Shining itself. Can't wait to see your reaction to it.
You forgot to mention it's the *sequel* to the Shining. Danny grown up, eventually he returns to the hotel for unfinished business.
It was really interesting seeing Ewan McGregor in that role. He did a really good job with Polanski's The Ghost Writer, and somehow that carried into Dr. Sleep as well.
In my book it wasn't that good. They did a good stab at it, but used way to much from the original Shining to make it work.
I'd say the most hateful villain here is Warner Brothers' copyright department. I'm glad you finally got this posted.
I don't think Jack was a villain at all. He was a victim of the Hotel. He was just weak minded and the most easily possessed. Or maybe the Hotel put more effort into taking his soul because he was the physically strongest. It did the same thing with the previous father. Jack was the most useful.
@michaelbuhl4250 Right? Who made these copyright laws anyway? They should be done away with. Hollywood and the movie industry has too much money and power because of them
I thought he was just a nice, normal guy who’s reacting the same way any of us would if we were shut up in a hotel with their wife and kid for more than a week.
@@mookiewilson4166 Stephen King claimed Nicholson appeared "Crazy from the start" but I never saw that, I thought he seemed like an ordinary guy like you said; A frustrated writer maybe, and there were a few signs that he had some contempt for his wife
@@mookiewilson4166 based on your comment I'm assuming you haven't read the book... 10/10 recommend it, it brings so much more depth to the characters
LATE TO THE PARTY: If you want another King movie set in a creepy hotel, I suggest '1408.'
And watch 1408 from a hotel room! That would be awesome.
A bit of a yarn, but stay with me. I had a microwave that would beep for no reason, just randomly, even if I wasn't using it. I smashed it, like 90s kids do when things don't work, and it stopped. Months later, after having been quiet that entire time, it went off EXACTLY when the alarms started going off in 1408. Threw that fucker off my 14th floor balcony. Not sure I've ever been so scared.
@@misterderp4566 I will say this from personal experience: there is NOTHING more terrifying than being in a hotel hallway when the power goes out.
Don't ask.
@@martinholt8168 I dunno about that, but I used to work at Denver Airport (which has its own urban legend/conspiracy theory background) and I was working the graveyard shift in the basement of the airport when the power went out. Didn't even have my phone on me and had no idea how to find my way out. Just had to stand there in the darkest darkness I've ever experienced till the power came back on.
@@misterderp4566 you threw a microwave off the 14th floor balcony. And you weren't arrested? Bro...keep telling stories. One day you'll be real good at it.
The thing about the nd is that the film is about cycles. That's why so many things change, like Grady's first name is different when Halloran tells the story than what he says it is in the bathroom, or when it was that Jack broke Danny's collarbone, or stopped drinking. These aren't continuity errors, they are intentional. It's to show that all of this stuff has happened before, and will happen again. Jack has always been the caretaker and Jack has always been abusive to his family. At the end Wendy and Danny escape the cycle when they survive and flee, but Jack doesn't, and he's trapped in it.
That's a little simplistic, but if you look at this film as a collection of cycles you'd be amazed how many there are and how much they intertwine.
I think ending just means Jack’s spirit is forever trapped in the hotel now, just like Grady & the rest. So the next caretaker may even have a talk with Jack in the restroom.
Also… Tony was a real one! It’s delightful that Danny’s dark passenger was like “Hi Mrs. Torrence… as the weird spirit that inhabits your child, just a courtesy heads up that there’s an even weirder, malicious spirit inhabiting your this hotel AND your hubby, and we should go! You know… FYI.” 😅
Yet not Mr. Hallorann, and he 'Shined'.
Even Tony was like, "this is f*cked."
Danny's full name was Daniel Anthony Torrence. "Tony" is himself.
@@Bluesit32it's funny how right he is I just didn't want to spoil the next movie
@@Bluesit32 Per the book, Tony is a projection of Danny through time. Danny's shining is more unique and stronger being able to summon himself "like looking into a magic mirror reflecting himself" from a possible version 10 years in the future. So Tony (future danny) steps in and talks to Danny, or takes over, whenever the situation is too difficult for Danny's childhood self to deal with. Which is also why he was able to call Dick Hallorann as soon as Danny went away, as he has more experience with The Shining abilities. The overlook wants to use Jack, who was connected to evil by his father's continual abuse and forming Jack's hatred of meek women, to trap Danny's soul in the hotel allowing it to feed of his powers and have greater range and control over time.
This then mimics Danny encountering Abra Stone who is stronger then Danny, and the True Knot wants to absorb her powers allowing them to live for many centuries.
If the bathroom door seemed sturdy, it's because it was overbuilt. Jack Nicholson used to be a firefighter, and he chopped through the original door too quickly, so they had to build it more strongly the second time.
Also, not sure if this counts as a legitimate horror movie, but The Village is one of my favorites.
I think he chopped through the prop door too quickly so they gave him a real door.
Ah, you might be right.
The Village is more, than a horror, but it still would be awesome to see a reaction :)
@@marximus4 They're right. It was the prop door that fell apart in a couple of blows. Jack missed his calling as a lumberjack.
@@zotharr I hated that movie. Something about Shyamalan movies always rub me the wrong way.
Kat, There aren’t enough comments in the world to summarize how fantastic you are.
*Kat sees the ocean of blood*
“That must be the red rum! I thought it was just MurDeR spelled backwards.”
Now, I’m going to kitchen for a glass of water cause I must be *thirsty*
I've been waiting for you to witness this one lol. You're rocking this genre, you've only been posting for a couple of months and you've already gotten through so many of the big ones lol.
"Well the novels done, critics have called it a bit repetitive."
If I had been drinking something it would have ended up all over my phone lol!
HIIIII JOHN WELCOME BACK!!! Ahh. That means a LOT to me. I am very very proud of myself for tackling some of these big ones... I feel like it's important to start with the classics, seeing as they paved the way! ALSO HAHAHA I won't lie to you, that's my favourite part. So you highlighting it MAKES ME VERY HAPPY. Evidently, we have the same sense of humor. HAPPY NEW YEAR PAL!! ALL THE BEST TO YOU!! Kat:D
@@KatWatchesHorror oh yes, sometimes you just have to jump into the pool with both feet lol. Great to be back and a very Happy New Year to you as well! As for the ending, Kubrick, being the very enigmatic director he was, left it ambiguous on purpose, but one of the more popular theories among fans is that Jack was a reincarnation of the man we saw in the July 4th Ball picture. You may differ but it does explain why he felt such a strong sense of deja vu, because he had literally been there before. Now that you've seen this, I strongly recommend checking out the sequel 'Doctor Sleep' that came out a couple of years ago, it's amazing. Love it all, keep it up! 😎
I love this channel. On the one hand, somewhere deep down part of me feels bad deriving so much pleasure from watching someone else suffer. On the other hand, your ability to inject humour into the most stressful situations gives me hope for humanity 🙂
Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall were so perfectly cast in this great film. So is Danny Lloyd, the little boy. They looked like a real, terrified family in seclusion. Very terrifying. Brilliantly done.
I thought the ending meant jack’s soul was taken by the spirits or the hotel. But here is a statement about that from online: As Stanley Kubrick explains, “It's supposed to suggest a kind of evil reincarnation cycle, where he [Jack] is part of the hotel's history, just as in the men's room, he's talking to the former caretaker [Grady], the ghost of the former caretaker, who says to him, 'you are the caretaker; you've always been the caretaker ...
Interesting interpretation.
Had the same thoughts long time ago.
I've watched this movie more times than I can count and I never noticed before that there was no "wet floor" sign. Thank you for enhancing the experience.
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The tenth or so time I watched this film, I started to realise that everything that happened has happened before.
Wendy takes Danny to the maze: 'I'm gonna getcha!' and later: Jack chases Danny into the maze to 'get' him. Both do not succeed.
Halloran shows Wendy a freezer and the dry goods store. Wendy puts Jack in the dry good store, later he freezes.
Many examples of this in this film.
It's made of earlier incidents being repeated.
Such as butler Delbert Grady of the 1930s returning to kill his wife and daughters as Charles Grady in 1970.
Or Mr. Torrance of the 4th of July ball 1920s returning as Jack Torrance in 1980.
Good interpretation.
There's a line (forgot where I got it from) that fits perfect.
All things, that happen in our lives have happened before. Only the circumstances have changed.
It's well known know that Kubrick really treated Shelley Duvall like an abused spouse during the shooting. He was mean and abusive to her, ostensibly for the purpose of eliciting a better and more believable performance from her. I mean, i guess it worked, but damn. Also the kid that played Danny had no idea what the movie was about. He only shot his scenes, and never knew about the blood or the axe murders or any of that stuff.
I think some of the mistreatment of Shelley (RIP) has been debunked. Kubrick was a very controlling director, but I think the stories ultimately related more to her mental health issues than him (could have seen some misinformation, correct me if I'm wrong).
On the second point, that's confirmed true. Danny was told it was a family drama, not a horror film and they treated shooting as such. Fortunately for him, he grew up to be Ewan McGregor. ;p
9:35 This sequence cracks me up:
(Jack tells Wendy off)
Kat: "Oh my God! Wendy have a little self-respect!"
(pause as Kat leans in anticipating Wendy's response)
Wendy: "ok"
Disappointed Kat: "Alright"
lol, it's not a haunted typewriter, she was turning the sidewheel and making it scroll.
and the reason they showed wendy reading all the pages was to show that jack snapped a LOOOOONG time ago.
anyway, HILARIOUS reaction, as usual! you are soooo funny when you are terrified lol
The other reason was Kubrick's secretary wrote all those pages so you couldn't cut her work short.
@@zedwpd haha awesome
I mean you're not wrong, but I always take umbridge with "snapped" because Jack is literally being mentally assaulted by ghosts trying to manipulate/control/posses him.
@@OpenMawProductions true. Excellent point!!
@@OpenMawProductions But didn't he previously hurt Danny before going to the hotel? Though he said it was an accident, but I imagine he just considers it an accident because he was probably drunk at the time, and that probably ties into why he was trying to stop drinking. I think he "snapped" near the beginning of the movie, but I think he's always been a shitty person in general.
Though I guess you could argue that he was being influenced by the hotel even prior to actually going there (if his soul is like a reincarnation of the former caretaker), but regardless, I'd say he was generally a bad person either way. And I think he was mentally "weak" to begin with, and that allowed the hotel to more easily influence him.
You have the best movie reactions on YT bar none.
One of the greatest movies, period . I am so glad you sat thru it!
Your reactions are absolutely amazing. First class awesome. I discovered your Jaws reaction earlier today and became an instant fan.
I believe the final scene means that Jack has been completely absorbed by the hotel and now is one of the ghosts, out of the normal flow of time.
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Definitely right!
"critics have called it a bit repetitive" cracked me up, haha. another amazing reaction, tnx. love how you are on point with the plot twists, and your julia roberts smile doesn't hurt the overall experience, haha...
"Come play with us, Kat!" 🤣
Glad you watched this, it's a classic. Also, if you ever get the chance, watch the 3 part TV movie version with Rebecca De Mornay and Steven Weber. King didn't like Kubrick's version, so he wrote the screenplay and bankrolled the TV version and it's a lot closer to the book. Definitely worth a watch!
Also, Happy New Year! I hope it's an amazing and successful one for you!
I did like that version alot.
Where can you watch that version though it doesn't look available anywhere?
IMHO, The Kubrick version was a better movie, but the King version was a better adaptation.
I remember when they announced the series. Came home from work geeking out to watch it. King said he didn’t like the Kubrick’, said “it didn’t have a heart.”
As someone who read the book first I totally prefer the TV miniseries overall due to the inclusion of so much more of the creepy stuff from the book, BUT I do still think the directing and acting is far better in the movie.
Hi Kat, I just discovered your channel. Your facial expressions are perfectly entertaining, as are your very animated reactions and witty responses. This is what makes top tier reaction videos! It's so funny when you go from physically composed to instant karate defense pose, then slowly devolve position into holding your face. And your 4th wall gazes into the camera are hilarious.
The real villain is the hotel itself. It takes over Jack's soul and uses him against Danny and Wendy. By the end, the hotel has completely absorbed Jack, which is how he ends up in the picture.
I love your wit, sarcasm, and dry delivery. So fun watching!
25:21 "STOP IT, STOP IT PLEASE, I BEG YOU!!"
Hi Kat! I'm a new-comer to your channel and have been binging your videos for the past couple weeks. Really love what you're doing and always interested to hear "what the real horror" of each of these movies are! Thanks for all the great content!
19:23 Best woman to watch a scary movie with ever, Kat. I don’t know how Annabelle or whatever your friend’s name in the corner is holds it together.
Stephen King hates this movie and the trick ending in particular, which he blamed Stanley Kubrick for not knowing was hackneyed. I think it means the Overlook Hotel was an entity and it devoured souls.
While not very scary, _Doctor Sleep_ (2019) is a terrific legacy sequel. Ewan McGregor plays an adult Danny and due to the enduring popularity of _The Shining_ , Warner Bros. spared no expense producing. A lot of horror films and also sequels skimp on their budgets but not this one.
Next scary movie? How about _Poltergeist_ (1982)?
You bring so much new life to these movies that I've seen a dozen (some possibly a hundred) times. You are so expressive and a true joy to watch. Once I climb out of my homeless situation and get my life back in order I hope I can do something to support your channel to repay the joy and fun you bring to the world. Thank you.
OMG that was the most hysterical viewing of the Shining I've ever seen. Subbed.
Omg, you work hard, and therefore you clearly deserve the monetization more than any ytuber I've seen so far.
There is no one on TH-cam that makes me laugh and entertains me as much as you do! Right from the get go with that car commercial comment during the opening credits! 😂😅
I am genuinely so impressed by your ability to keep your eyes on the screen even when you’re terrified.
The best part of this movie is that there is no perfect theory explaining it all.
It was designed that way.
There are many good theories out there. You get to pick one you like best.
What a movie.
Couple a fun facts! The actress who played Wendy was _very_ sick with the flu when they filmed. That's why she looks so, well, sick. The dark circles, the clamminess, the paleness? Yep, that was all real! She was genuinely super sick!
Also, she was _terrified_ of Jack Nicholson. He never properly introduced himself to her before filming, and on set, he did a _lot_ of improv. The entire iconic dialogue on the stairs of "I'm not gonna hurt ya, I'm just gonna bash your brains in" was _improv._ That wasn't scripted. So imagine, being _very_ sick with the flu, and a man who never really introduced himself to you is going _off script_ and manically confessing he wishes to harm you. Yeah... a lot of Wendy's fear wasn't actually acting!
And Jack Nicholson never interacted with her outside of filming until the _end of filming._ So this man, who constantly went of script with insane threats of violence, never fucking spoke to her outside of the scenes they filmed. Add being sick on top, and you get genuine fear.
Other fun facts: The actor that played Danny never knew he was in a horror movie! He found out much later in life, because his memories of filming consisted mainly of memorizing lines to say, and riding a big wheel down hallways. He spent most of the time playing with the other actors and staff, and so never realized there was anything scary about his scenes!
Final fun fact: The twins never did any other acting outside of The Shining. They have a combined screen time of less than 5 minutes, I believe, and are known as the most famous actors with the least amount of total screentime in the world!
What's NOT fun is the shit Kubrick subjected Shelly Duvall to especially when she seems to have a very, very passive personality. A different actress might have cursed him out and walked off
They did more acting. They were in coors light commercials, that's why they are known as the coors light twins.
This was an awesome reaction. Also Jack being in the picture again is likely meant to show that his soul was just another of the many ghosts that are stuck to haunt the hotel. All the people in that final picture are likely ghosts in the hotel.
Okay I just found your channel and I have to let you know, you are my new favorite channel! I laughed so hard. Off to binge watch all your content.
Loved your reaction to the "bear job".
As for the ending, like any Kubrick film, it's up to you to decide. Kubrick's not one for explaining things. My first take when I saw it was that the hotel had absorbed his soul.
It is explained, kinda. Just like with Delbert Grady and his family, Jack is part of the hotel now.
@@JDelwynn That's one interpretation. There is also the idea that there aren't any ghosts in the hotel at all. We all know Kubrick loved creating intriguing films.
If you’re talking about the scene where Wendy sees the man in costume doing explicit things to another man, it’s a reference to the book that wasn’t widely shown for a reason. Danny sees a dog man with its head on upside down (and I believe, walking backwards on all fours), that shouts its going to do sexual things to him and he runs away, from my memory. I haven’t read it in years, but as an adult I’m halfway through a re-read. Haven’t gotten to that part yet, but I remember it used to be the scariest part to me as a kid. (I should also not have been allowed to read this as a kid.)
@@tbeighle5131Did you get to the part yet?
Furries have been around at least since 1929. 😃
8:22 The absolute greatest utterance of "Stop that!" I've ever been witness too.
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Censor style: Jack Nippleson.
I hate myself.
Hi Kat, it is wonderful watching horror movies with you. Your comments are hillarious. thank you for making me smile.please keep up your great reactions.
He did say he felt deja vu when he first went to the hotel. And the ghost said he had always been the caretaker of the hotel.
The Shining is one of my all time favorite films. So glad you did this vid! Kubrick was all about symbolism. This film has been dissected by many. You could dive Deep down a rabbit hole with this film.
"Ok, alright, ok.. alright, ok -" 😆 "Critics have found it a bit repetitive" Oh Kat, so many gems, who are you?? 🤣
@14:25, you said it Baby. It takes a village to be a masterpiece.
Nice reaction btw. Cheers!
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You are my absolute favorite, Kat.
You've always been the caretaker.
I love your videos and the editing is amazing 😍 thank you!
Only recently found your channel and got to admit you are so funny, excellent to re watch a classic movie I've watched numerous times and still enjoy your reaction. The red rum quote with the blood is a classic and made me lol. Got notifications on and keep up the good work. All the best from Scotland.
I love the twist of this movie… it turns out that Jack Torrence was the 1 who murdered his family who they were talking about at the beginning of the movie
Oh Kat! I love watching people react to this movie. Your timing of "where's the happy ending?" was impeccable. Just then they show Wendy interrupting the happy ending to the man on the bed. LOL. I laugh every time I re watch this.
I remember when I was about 11, telling my Mum, “So and so lent me The Shining!” She said, “What? Absolutely not! Oh, the book? Okay then” my Mum didn’t care what I read, as long as I was reading. This was also one of the few movies my dad didn’t let me watch until I was 14
I was 10 when this movie came out. I got to read the book, which had photos of movie in the centre. Scared the f'k out of me..
lol. The book is so much scarier than the movie was.
Absolutely loved this! The Shining is definitely my favourite horror film. My interpretation of the picture at the end from 1921 is that like Grady, Jack's soul has been claimed by the hotel and he's trapped forever in its history and now he's become one of the ghosts. I believe that's what Grady meant when he said 'You've always been the caretaker'.
The beast got what it wanted..... Remember. The hotel is alive. You can see it in the way it is build. There is no way you can recreate the building as it is depicted. Scewed architecture because it is a living thing.
The reason for the “good quality bathroom door” was because Jack Nicholson was once a volunteer firefighter and blew right through the prop doors made for the scenes of him breaking into the room and bathroom, so Stanley Kubrick had them replaced with real wooden doors.
Hi Kat, I just stumbled across your channel today and have watched four of your reactions already. Just for the record: I do have a life - well... kind of! Your reactions are awesome! Your facial expressions are absolutely priceless and to me you are the new "scream queen"!
Speaking of "The Shining", it's one of the best movies of all time for me and Jack Nicholson's acting is just brilliant!
Keep up the great work/fun and I will come back for more of your reactions!
Greetings from Hamburg/Germany
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What a great movie and reaction! You’re reactions are so fun to watch because of your sense of humor. Subbed.
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Yep! You just showed me exactly what my brain was doing when i first saw the photo reveal at the end.
Your reaction to the guy in the bear suit at the top of the stairs 🤣 😂
Seriously though Kat, thanks for doing these reactions, I'm late to the party on this channel as i only found you about a week ago. Currently im binging from the beginning after seeing your Carrie last week. I'm dreading when i catch up and have to wait for a week between 😮.
Absolutely LOVE your reactions to jump scares and stuff in these movies.
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The Kia commercial cracked me up 😂 Most people are just creeped out at that scene. Hilarious reaction!
I don't subscribe to channels very often, but I love your commentary and humor, so, what the heck. One of my favorite horror movies is with Kate Hudson. It's called Skeleton Key. The nice thing is that there is hardly any gore. It's just a really well told ghost story.
I looked through about 50 comments and didnt see the "right" answer to your question, so here it is... Most people are saying the picture shows Jack's soul had been captured by the Overlook, but Kubrick said specifically it's to indicate that Jack has reincarnated. The 1921 picture shows him as one of the previous caretakers of the hotel, which is furthered both when he says he feels deja vu there and when Grady tells him he's always been the caretaker.
One of our local movie theaters installed full carpeting that is identical to the hotel's carpet pattern and they have a simulated hallway of the hotel going into the wall. So cool!! Oh and I've been to Timberline Lodge at Mt. Hood in Oregon which is the inspiration for the exterior although the interior and maze were filmed in England.
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The inside of that hotel is SO disappointing despite being well-designed.
I was in Colorado, Estes Park because I'd been told The Stanley Hotel was the location for The Shining. Was it used for some exterior shots? I thought, but something didn't seem right. It was only when walking around the hotel interior, seeing 'stills' from movie that I asked a staff member. 'Yes, that's right. They filmed The Shining here...' Further investigation revealed it was the location for The Shining TV Mini Series.
We never saw that here in the UK. It was a bit of a disappointment and quite the detour to go and see it.
(Long before smartphones and Google.)
The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park was the inspiration for the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's original book. They (obviously) didn't use the Stanley for this movie, but if you listen to the weather report on the TV news, that is (supposed to be) coming from Denver. The newscaster is Bertha Lynn, who was a very well-known local anchorwoman in Denver at the time.
For the TV miniseries, they finally filmed much of it *at* the actual Stanley Hotel. But what is really funny about that is that the Overlook is supposed to be waaayyyy up in the mountains, all by itself, and totally snowed in during the Winter months. But if you go to Estes Park, the Stanley Hotel is actually not far off of the main road that runs through Estes Park; it's not at all isolated from the rest of the town, the way the Overlook was isolated from the (fictional) town of Sidewinder, in the story.
So, inspiration = yes. But not duplication.
This channel deserves more subs. Kat is great.
21:50 ".. critics call it a bit repetitive."
THAT WAS BRILLIANT!!!🤣😅🤣
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I'm really glad your channel is starting to take off!
Totally worth the wait. This is on the Mount Rushmore of horror movies without a doubt. Leave it to Kat to be more concerned with wet floor signs and creepy corners than with the psychopathic murderer in the hotel. You never disappoint. I also loved watching your opinion of Mr Hallorann move from distrust to he's gonna be the hero to the look on your face when the axe hit his chest. Also when you declared about Jack "this guy sucks" when he hadn't yet scratched the surface of suckage. Your top comment for me was that the critics have called his novel "a bit repetitive" Hilarious. You closed strong with a spot on Tony and your recognition of a quality bathroom door. PS eleven or so ummmms is the proper amount of ummmms for what you saw in that bedroom. You are the queen!!! Looking forward to whatever comes next.
I've seen this movie a hundred times, and Danny's plight never ceases to affect me. Him sitting on his father's lap is the scariest scene for me.
She doesn't even realize that when Jack is sitting at the typewriter the chair behind him keeps disappearing. STANLEY K was a directing genius.
During the opening credits, the road he is driving on is located in Glacier National Park in Montana.
It's called 'The Going to the Sun Highway' which is because when you drive on it from the east side of the park, heading west, there are parts where it feels like you are driving to the sun. It's a great drive, as long as you bring shades.
The hotel in the film is not in the park, it is back east in New England.
Great Reactions, It's truly funny watching someone who hates horror films...watch them.
It's like strapping my retentive dad to a chair and forcing him to watch someone fold a map the wrong way. :)
I think this is an allegorical film. I believe Jack (and the hotel) represent societal evil and cruelty throughout the generations. Wendy and Halloran represent the victims of such evil and Danny is the younger, smarter generation who can outwit these evils.
I think that's what makes Jack's character so deeply unsettling. He represents a deep, very real, human evil. An evil that seems inherent to the human species.
Also one of the most harrowing depections of domestic abuse I've ever seen in a film. Nicholson is great, of course, but this would not have worked without Shelley Duvall's performance. She is amazing and crucial as a foil to his terrorism.
This is my favorite film of all time and this has been one of my favorite watch-throughs of it and I've been binging them lately, so thanks for the good work!
Whew! Great reaction!😉 I read this book in my 7th grade school library, probably couldn't now,lol.
Great reaction, Kat!! As for the ending, Kubrick didn’t like to talk about the endings of his films too much since he felt it was more thought-provoking to leave them ambiguous, but there was an old phone conversation that leaked recently where he admitted that the ending of this movie was showing how basically the Hotel had consumed Jack and he became part of its endless cycle of evil reincarnation.
I mean, the film suggests he was already part of it - Jack talking about his crazy dejavu, conversation with Grady, the photograph.
@@HorySmokes This is also hinted at by the fact that the servant he talks to in the red bathroom is Delbert Grady. The man who we hear about at the beginning of the movie - the one who axe-murdered his family in the 1970s - is Charles Grady. It's not the same person. In the interpretation Kubrick hinted at, Charles might've been a reincarnation of Delbert in the same way that Jack might've been a reincarnation of the guy in the photo at the end. Basically, souls that are doomed to return life after life, get drawn to the hotel, and end up caught in a repeating cycle of temptation, madness, and murder.
Kubrick put Shelley Duvall and Nicholson both through absolute hell during this movie. Her continued mental breakdown and physical exhaustion throughout the movie are very real. Most notably, Kubrick made them run the the baseball bat scene something like 127 times. By the end of it they were both so at the end of their rope that Kubrick deemed it believable. Also, I subscribed to you today after watching like 10 of your more recent videos. Binge watched a bunch today. I have to say that compared to videos around the 10 month+ old mark, you have exponentially increased your ability to deal with your fear and jump scares. You're slowly but surely becoming a pro.
Goodness me, Kat. It was great watching this with you. Great reaction.
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You made me laugh so hard. Excellent react, but damn ....the doll standing in your corner kept scaring the crap outta me😂
Obligatory "TUESDAY" jump scare 😅👍
Best Reaction to The Shining! One of my favorite movies. Watching it through your eyes made it scary again! Thank you for all the laughs too. 😂
Okay, it is Official.... Kat is the most beautiful insightful reactor on TH-cam
I am honored and excited that you know the definition of comedy. And if you don't you should know that it means an unexpected ending. You rock Kat
Tony is so polite calling Wendy "Mrs. Torrence". I always thought that was cute.
I found it odd Tony was calling his mother "Mrs. Torrence"
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@@Dularr ya, but in little danny's confused brain, that's how it came out. so cute.
I have only watched this and your reaction to Halloween but they are great! Can't wait to see what you watch next!
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RIP Shelly Duvall
Hi Kat. Great as always. Have a great 2023 😉
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Always a pleasure to watch you watch horror 😊
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Love the Berlioz and Bartok snippets in the soundtrack. They fit perfectly.
26:58 The other rooms didn't have any heating, so Wendy and Danny would have frozen a lot if they picked any other rooms - also, people often feel uneasy in rooms that they are unfamiliar with, and the room that they had been given to them probably felt most comforting to them, and they probably assumed that Jack wouldn't be able to escape from the pantry.
One of the caretaker's tasks was to heat the rooms on a rotating basis so they (and the hotel's water pipes) wouldn't freeze, but Jack had stopped doing so. It's an important plot point in the book, which has a different ending.
It's so funny how whenever you watch a horror film or just a film with horror in it you are nervous in expectation of horror through 100% of the runtime lmao.