The Shining: The Hotel That Rearranges Itself

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Watch The Shining enough times and you stop being frightened by the twins or the elevator of blood and start being frightened by the building itself, which does not add up. The Overlook Hotel has a window in the manager’s office that looks out onto daylight, except that the office is buried in the centre of the building where no exterior wall could be. Corridors connect to rooms that cannot exist beside them. A store cupboard has no exit, until it does. Stanley Kubrick built a haunted house whose real haunting is architectural: the place will not hold still, and once you notice, you cannot unnotice, and the ground goes out from under the whole film.

Steadicam - vo.rs

The Shining: The Hotel That Rearranges Itself