Shining

Titolo originale: The Shining
Regia: Stanley Kubrick |
Anno: 1980
Origine: United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Horror Thriller
Tag: hotel | new year's eve | child abuse | based on novel or book | isolation | telepathy | delusion | halloween | snowstorm | colorado | seclusion | surrealism | writer's block | alcoholism | premonition | psychic power | caretaker | loneliness | vision | domestic violence | postmodern | psychological thriller | writer | twins | labyrinth | alcoholic | blizzard | mutilation | bloody body of child | extrasensory perception | uxoricide | motherhood | filicide | snowed in | burial ground | hypothermia | haunted hotel | psychological disintegration | paranoid | afi | pediatrician | repetition | mother son relationship | malicious | supernatural power | anxious | new year | supernatural horror | ghost child | psychotronic film | dreary | cabin fever | psychological horror | deal with the devil | nuclear family | avant garde | suspenseful | new year's party | identical twins |
Cast: Jack Nicholson | Shelley Duvall | Danny Lloyd | Scatman Crothers | Barry Nelson | Philip Stone | Joe Turkel | Anne Jackson | Tony Burton | Lia Beldam | Billie Gibson | Barry Dennen | David Baxt | Manning Redwood | Lisa Burns | Louise Burns | Robin Pappas | Alison Coleridge | Burnell Tucker | Jana Shelden | Kate Phelps | Norman Gay | Paul Desbois | Vivian Kubrick | Derek Lyons | Alan Harris | Peter McNamara | Guy Standeven | Reg Thomason |

L'aspirante scrittore Jack Torrance si trasferisce tra i monti per trovare il giusto isolamento che gli permetterà di completare il suo romanzo. L'uomo accetta quindi l'incarico di custode invernale di un enorme albergo tra le montagne, dove lo seguono la moglie e il figlioletto Danny, il quale possiede poteri paranormali che gli permettono di vedere nel passato e nel futuro.

Errori

The light switches in the Overlook hotel are mounted high up on the wall as is typically done in Eng [...] D
When Wendy brings Jack breakfast in bed, she brings him eggs made sunny side up. Any eggs should hav [...] D
When Jack is walking towards the Gold Room, his image is not reflected in the last mirror. D
Jack's typewriter changes from a white manual Alder to black model of the same make. D
When Jack enters the hotel manager's office to disable the radio, there is a light switch on the wal [...] D
When Hallorann and Danny are talking about "the Shining", the camera goes back and forth between clo [...] D
Shadows from camera equipment are occasionally visible on Danny's back when he is riding through the [...] D
When Stuart Ullman is interviewing Jack, he has a name plate on his desk. When Wendy finds the switc [...] D
When Danny is writing "REDRUM" on the wall, the knife's handle is turned to him. When he approaches [...] D
When Jack is using the ax to break through the door, he only breaks through one of the recessed pane [...] D
The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 pictured in-flight as Dick Hallorann's trip from Miami to Denver's Stapl [...] D
When Wendy hits Jack over the head with the baseball bat on the staircase, the bat flexes, revealing [...] D
[Around 02:08:40] When Jack strikes Hallorann in the chest with his axe, blood is seen gushing out f [...] D
During the long shot of the Overlook Hotel in the beginning (right before The Interview title card), [...] D
Mrs. Torrance's cigarette ash when she discusses Danny with the doctor. D
When Jack is talking to Lloyd at the bar the second time, we can clearly see ice cubes in Jack's gla [...] D
In the end credits, Special Effects is misspelled as Speical Effects. D
The shadow from the camera is visible on Wendy and Jack when they enter the apartment for the first [...] D
When Jack enters Mr. Ullman's office for the interview, you can see Kubrick's head and a crew member [...] D
Wendy's hand when Jack is talking about his nightmare. D
During Torrance's second visit to the Gold Room bar, the level of whiskey in the glass goes up betwe [...] D
When Jack leans over the model of the hedge maze in the hotel lobby, the size and configuration of t [...] D
As Wendy enters the bathroom to escape from Jack, the lampshade beside the bed is crooked. When Jack [...] D
In the "1:00" chapter, while the plane Dick Hallorann is on approaches Denver, the sky is sunny and [...] D
When Mr. Ullman interviews Jack and explains why the hotel is closed for the winter, he finished his [...] D
As Jack is talking to Mr. Grady in the men's room, and Grady puts down the tray, it moves from betwe [...] D
In the film's final action scene, when Jack is chasing Danny through the maze, there's never any evi [...] D
Throughout the film, the Gold Room sign is located at the entrance of the Gold Ballroom. At the very [...] D
During Hallorann's phone conversation with Larry, his scarf changes positions from being inside his [...] D
When the family drives to the hotel at the start of the movie, Wendys window is all the way down, ev [...] D
When Wendy drags Jack into the food storage room we see a bunch of knives on a small wall. Wendy loc [...] D
In his job interview, Ullman tells Jack the name of the previous caretaker which was, as Ullman says [...] D
When Wendy is explaining Danny's injury to the doctor, she says that at the time of the incident, Ja [...] D
When Danny has the tennis ball rolled to him in the Overlook Hotel, the carpet pattern on the floor [...] D
Just before Wendy and Danny enter the maze outside the hotel for the first time, they pass a hut nea [...] D
After Jack kills Hallorann, the head of the ax is bloody as would be expected. When Jack is subseque [...] D
After killing Hallorann, Jack goes to the Overlook front doors. Hallorann had recently squeezed into [...] D
When Danny first discovers Room 237 while riding his tricycle, there is a door to the top right of h [...] D
(at around 1h 45 mins) Jack is chasing Wendy on the stairs. When the camera is on Jack, he has his h [...] D
When Jack calls Wendy after his interview, there is a woman behind him, in a chair, reading a magazi [...] D
When Jack and Danny are sitting on the bed talking, Jack's left hand alternates between being down a [...] D
In the game room, a US flag is hung vertically on the wall, but with the blue corner at the top righ [...] D
The Steadicam's shadow is briefly visible during the final chase through the maze. D
When Danny and Hallorann are discussing "the Shining" over a bowl of ice cream, the shots of Danny c [...] D
The location in the film is supposed to be Colorado state in the United States. However, because the [...] D
Some viewers have suggested that there is no explanation as to how Jack escaped from the food storag [...] D
At the beginning of the movie, when Danny and Wendy are still in Boulder, we see Danny talking to To [...] D
When Danny and Halloran talk together, the ice cream residue in Danny's dish changes between shots, [...] D
Jack orders a "bottle of bourbon" from Lloyd - however, Lloyd gives a bottle of whiskey. Jack Daniel [...] D
When Jack is at his typewriter, and Wendy asks "get a lot written today?" there is a table and chair [...] D
When Jack is in bathroom scene, he says to Delbert Grady: "You killed your wife and daughter." Right [...] D
When Wendy gets up to run into Danny's room when he's screaming "Redrum", she has a cigarette in her [...] D
Dick Hallorann opens the freezer door with his left hand and the door's handle is on the right. When [...] D
During the job interview Ullman tells Jack that there is no skiing in the area, but in the first aer [...] D
The positioning of Danny's hands and the ice cream bowl when he and Hallorann are talking about Shin [...] D
While Wendy and Danny are in the bathroom hiding from Jack, the interior shots show snow accumulated [...] D
The first time we see Jack's typewriter at the Overlook Hotel, it is a small white typewriter. Later [...] D
When Jack is angry in the kitchen after his argument with Wendy, he knocks kitchen utensils off the [...] D
The last picture of the arrival sequence in the beginning of the movie is an aerial shot. During thi [...] D
A cigarette butt in the glass ashtray that Ullman has on his desk disappears and reappears twice dur [...] D
The Maze not being shown in the opening of the film is due to its location could easily be behind th [...] D
Wendy's hand placement on the bat when Jack is chasing her up the stairs. Up until the time she hits [...] D
When Jack is being interviewed for the job, there are numerous cuts between him and Ullman. If you l [...] D
The song played in the ballroom scenes is "Midnight, the Stars, and You", which wasn't recorded, by [...] D
There are several large windows along a wall in the master bedroom of the caretaker's quarters. Howe [...] D
When Wendy visits Jack in the lobby while he is typing (where he gets very agitated that she has int [...] D
Wendy is "from Vermont," but has an unmistakable Texas accent. D
When Larry is walking into Durkin's garage and the phone is ringing. Larry tosses his gloves on the [...] D
The positions of Danny's bowl of ice cream change when Halloran and he are talking about The Shining [...] D
When Jack is driving to the motel at the beginning for his interview, the shadow of a helicopter can [...] D
Many seemingly continuity errors such as background items disappearing and reappearing, doors openin [...] D
The position of the knife when Wendy locks herself in the bathroom. D
When Jack Torrance is at his appointment with Mr. Ullman, he talks about the tragedy that took place [...] D
Obviously empty boxes fall on Jack when he gets up and stumbles into them after Wendy locks him in t [...] D
[Around 02:08:19] When Hallorann arrives at The Overlook Hotel looking for the family, the overhead [...] D
When Jack talks with Lloyd the bartender for the first time, you can see two errors: the pattern of [...] D
Danny writes 'redrum' on the bathroom door with lipstick. When Jack starts chopping the door, the wr [...] D
The amount of sandwich eaten by Danny at the beginning of the film. D
When Wendy and Danny are watching television, there is no power or antenna/cable cords connected to [...] D
The hedge maze that is supposedly behind the hotel is not visible during the aerial shot of the enti [...] D
During the bat scene, the bear rug in front of the fireplace disappears and reappears. D
Many of the fluorescent light fixtures in the Overlook hotel appear to be the 5 foot length that is [...] D
When Wendy runs through the hotel holding the knife, it switches between her left and right hand. D
When Grady and Jack enter the vestibule outside the red Men's Room, Grady sets down the tray of advo [...] D
The helicopter's shadow can be seen in the bottom right hand corner, during the opening sequence. (T [...] D
Some viewers have suggested that there is no explanation as to how Jack escaped from the food storag [...] D
If the area gets 20 feet of snow in the winter and the storm is the worst they'd seen in years, the [...] D
A caption reads "THURSDAY" and then shortly afterwards we see Wendy and Danny watching The Road Runn [...] D
Reference is made to the hotel being built in 1907-09 and that possibly there were Indian attacks on [...] D
When we see the elevators open, gushing blood, the elevator door opens from left to right. Earlier, [...] D
Someone can been seen filming the last scene toward the end of the film when Wendy runs out of the h [...] D
When Jack is making a toast with Lloyd the Bartender, he says "here's to five miserable months on th [...] D
When Danny returns from the game room, Jack asks him if he had fun bombing the universe, where Danny [...] D
When Wendy brings Jack breakfast in bed, they appear to change sides, but in fact, the first shot is [...] D
Dick Hallorann (Scatman Crothers) is shown to possess "The Shining", a combination of telepathic and [...] D
The small painting above Jack and Wendy's bed is missing as Jack is talking to Danny. D
Near the end of the film when Danny (as Tony) takes the knife from the side table, walks to a dresse [...] D
Right before Dick Hallorann opens the door to the walk-in freezer, you can see the background of the [...] D
When Wendy finds Hallorann in the hall and the camera zooms in on him, his eyelid moves just before [...] D
There is no way that the huge pile of the Torrance's luggage (as seen when they first arrive at the [...] D
After Wendy has locked Jack in the pantry, we hear him slamming against the door repeatedly in an at [...] D
The wooden shelving in the food storage room where Jack is locked up is built of British dimension l [...] D
The mirror image shown of REDRUM is not of what Danny had written on the door i.e. the lettering is [...] D