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4 days agoHow Stephen King Made The Shining Even Scarier
Stephen King's revisions in The Shining enhance the story's horror through specific imagery and the removal of explicit references to violence.
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1 month agoThe forgotten Al Bowlly: The singer, killed by Nazi bombs, now celebrated by King Charles III and Dua Lipa
Perhaps it's fitting that Al Bowlly's death is as well-remembered as his life, or rather, as his voice. After all, his most celebrated appearance in popular culture wasn't physical, but spectral. In Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980), when Jack Torrance enters the ballroom and the ballad titled Midnight, the Stars and You (1934) plays, the film reaches one of its most memorable moments.
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2 months agoGuillermo del Toro's jazz hands' at Oscar lunch a recreation of Shining photo, director says
Guillermo del Toro and Paul Thomas Anderson recreated The Shining's group shot at an Oscar luncheon; Jack Nicholson's famous image was an edit of a 1921 London dance photograph.
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5 months agoThe Hotel That Inspired 'The Shining' Has a Haunted History, Its Own Distillery, and a Secret Lounge-Here's What It's Like to Stay
The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park inspired The Shining, blends historic grandeur with haunted lore, and attracts guests for tours, seances, and Room 217.
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6 months agoThe Shining's New Numbered Limited Edition Is Up For Grabs At Amazon
The retailer just listed The Film Vault's Steelbook Special Edition and Solus Steelbook Editions of the classic 1980 horror movie on 4K Blu-ray. The regular Steelbook Edition comes with an acetate slipcover and is currently priced at $48.86. The Steelbook Special Edition is $87.07 and includes the following extras: a themed cigar box, two posters, five character cards, and three behind-the-scenes cards. Each Special Edition has a holographic sticker numbered to 6,000, so don't expect it to remain in stock for long.
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6 months agoThe Shining's New 4K Steelbook Edition Is Back In Stock At Walmart, Releases Next Week
If you happened to read this story when we originally published it in August or earlier this month, you may be as surprised as I was to learn this. That's because Walmart canceled many, if not all, preorders for this Steelbook Edition and a pricier Special Edition version on September 7-8. At the time, Walmart cited inventory shortages, so apparently something changed over the past few weeks.
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