Comments on: Lost Ending To Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ Revealed

By: andy

andy — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:22:57 +0000

Room 237 is a horrible "documentary".

By: Devin Lucas

Devin Lucas — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:22:57 +0000

After all is said and done, even The Shining's critics can't deny that they are still talking about it for over 30 years. Good filmmakers entertain you for 2 hours. Great one's keep you thinking of their work for decades. The Shining will always be one of the most important horror films ever made. The fact that intelligent people still try to uncover its mysteries despite knowing there is likely no one true answer to the questions is the proof of its "haunting" power on audiences. Critics who call its imagery confusing are underestimating the power of disorientation in fear. If you saw a room full of corpses, would you need a full explanation of how they got there before you turned to run? The hotel's mysteries, much like the film's, did not need to explain themselves to its victims.

By: Stephen Volk

Stephen Volk — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:22:57 +0000

"Meaning is a very over-rated commodity" – Harold Pinter

By: Helgi

Helgi — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:22:57 +0000

I love the fact that a titanic actor like Jack Nicholson, still shining from the 1975 glory, was willing to let go into the hands of a master (1980). Just watch the docu made by StanleyÂ´s daughter. It is such a beautiful revelation. By the way, The Shining by Stanley Kubrick is more of a calculated horror-story, highly overrated, whereas Stephen King was a verbal lazy boy with emotion, highly overrated. Get it?

By: sidney falco

sidney falco — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:22:57 +0000

Does nothing to save Kubrick's weak film…don't understand the love for this film. I love Kubrick, and the film is beautifully made, but he clearly didn't understand the horror genre and missed the boat with this one. Take the scene where Duvall runs into the room full of corpses. Showing a room full of corpses isn't scary if you haven't set up the horror properly. It's confusing. The only scene that totallyworks for me is the final maze scene, because it was properly set up.

Give me EYES WIDE SHUT anyday.

By: shashibiya

shashibiya — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:22:57 +0000

I saw this scene, at the Los Angeles premiere. It was jarring. It didn't fit with the rest of the film. It felt like an "explanation scene" that didn't explain anything. When I went back two days later to see the movie again, it was gone, with only a very audible pop on the soundtrack to indicate where it had been cut.

By: bohmer

bohmer — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:22:57 +0000

I'm sorry but as a film, Room 237 is shit. And the interpretations of the movies you ear is from lunatics.

By: rtas

rtas — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:22:57 +0000

Nicholson frozen in the snow is one of the greatest images in horror, and film, history.

By: Arch

Arch — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:22:57 +0000

Nothing new indeed… last year the Dryder Theatre in Rochester, NY even created some kind of turmoil by announcing that they would play an unseen version of the movie… turned out the alternate ending wasn't included.
Here's a website with info concerning said ending, including a few pictures (thx forgottensilver) : http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~butting/shining/hospital.html

By: Christian

Christian — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:22:57 +0000

As fascinating as it is, this it not news. Check out the YouTube interview "THE SHINING: Bill Blakemore Interview" with the man who started the whole school of thought that the film is about the Indian genocide. In the interview he unveils the concept of the lost ending. He goes on to connect its meaning with his own interpretation of the film, claiming the rolling ball to be a metaphor for evil continuing forever and history repeating itself again and again.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:22:57 +0000

"Hopefully on its way to theaters this year"? Kevin, "Room 237" already played in theaters in 2012.