Here we are...Halloween and the end of my list....these should have been seen by all of you.
#2 - The Shining
My wife has never seen this movie all the way through - not because she's unnerved by the eerie Moroder score, the bleak and hopeless sweeping shots of the Overlook and it's surroundings, or the brilliantly acted descent into madness that Nicholson so memorably put onto the screen.
It's soley because she has always started making out and stopped paying attention to the screen when the movie has been on......every time.
(A tradition that we continue to honor to this day - wink, wink)
Seriously though, this is such a bad ass film full of weird mind f***s and mad imagery that it still leaves me shaken after more than three dozen viewings.
Especially off-putting is the early exchange between Scatman Cruthers and Danny Lloyd as the family gets their first look at their final resting place.
The only other scene that is forever burned into my brain is the bear suit BJ in room 237...straight up WTF.
Fun Fact #1 - According to Shelley Duvall the infamous 'Heere's Johnny!' scene took 3 days to film and the use of 60 doors.
Fun Fact #2 - There is only one onscreen murder in the entire film.
666 Seconds Here's Johnny Free
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