thirty movies hath november - The Shining (1980)
I'm a complete scaredity-cat when it comes to horror books and movies. I wasn't born that way; I was made to be that way. and I know who to blame: Stephen King. directly to blame in the case of horror literature (a story for another day) and indirectly in the case of horror movies.
In the case of movies, while not a bigbig fan of horror movies, I went to my fair share of them - The Amityville Horror, The Omen, others. and then I watched The Shining. and that was the end of all that. I can't even watch horror movie trailers. even right now, as I was searching for clips in YT I could barely watch each for a few seconds. they kinda look legit, but don't blame me if you get rickrolled in the middle of watching a clip. blame Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick, who I just noticed, have the same initials. conspiracy anyone?
there are still very contentious arguments as to whether Kubrick messed up/was faithful to/improved upon King's novel. I have no opinion as I havent' read the novel. or plan to, but here be teh movie wiki.
but why am I writing about a movie I can't bear to watch even a few minutes of? well, because of that same fact. I have to respect a movie that affected me so profoundly. and I wasn't the only one. The Shining has endured, and is shown in a form of hommage emblematic of this XXI century: parodies,mashups, recuts. there are a cubic assload of selfsame all over teh internets; won't take you long to find them.
begin the clippage:
trailer
and because it showed up on the first page of results when I googled The Shining
The Shining reenacted by bunnies
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I never.heard. of. rickrolling. before. w.t.f....
When I was a wee lass just 11 or 12 in 7th grade in the year 1980, my English teacher made all her classes read a book by her favorite author, a Mr. Stephen King. I chose The Shining. Then we had to write letters to Mr. King, because apparently Stalky McEnglishteacher had his address. Then he sent over a hundred kids copies of his short story The Monkey, which he personalized and autographed. The End.
Appropriate for 12 year olds? Hm. Well I saw the movie not too much later, I am pretty sure I saw it after. The tv remake of The Shining with I think it was Stephen Webber was more faithful to the book than the film. I actually read the book twice, but I don't really remember specific differences, just that the Kubrick version was much more Kubricized than the book was.
ah. so that's what all the references to The Shining (1997) were about. good to know. I like your term, Kubricized. though it sounds a bit kinky. which would then explain Eyes Wide Shut <music> the more you know...</music>
your teacher was weird. word. maybe she was the inspiration for Misery
btw, you never heard of rickrolling because your nephews/nieces are not teenagers. just you wait (it'll be something else by then)
Now I'm thinking I encountered rickrolling somewhere, maybe not on YT, or maybe I did and was just to confused to let it register...I dunno.
mariser, we're of one mind with horror movies. I can't even watch the trailers of the Shining. Mostly because when it came out, a friend of mine saw it and said, Oh it's not that scary. Well, it was on TV just before Halloween and just as freakin scary as it was 20 years ago. It has everything. Insanity, the paranormal, violence, isolation, everything that scares the bejeezus out of human beings when rolled into one package. Not all the gore in the world will ever top it.
The remake with Stephen Weber and Rebecca DeMornay was really good and during a period where ABC seemed to be making a lot of King films. It's nice that the remake was closer to the book, but nothing is as creepy or scary as the original Shinning film.
I also liked the TV-miniseries version -- mostly for Rebecca DeMornay (rawr), but it was actually a pretty good version. Good choice for today's movie.
did you check the the shining by bunnies ? is only 30-seconds long.
reminds me of another scary thing about The Shining; that music gave teh creeps. masterful.
I went home with the biggest case of the heebie jeebies and had to take a sleeping bag upstairs so I could sleep in the same level of the house as all the other people. I was not sleeping on the lower level by myself...no.way.
The Simpson's parody was definitely one of their best ever, too!
It's been years and years and years since I read the book....I probably better just let it go at that! ;)
That said I love love LOVE Stephen King for his "not so horror" books...The Stand, Insomnia, The Green Mile, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Dead Zone...that's all I can think of right now...and those are my most favorites of his.
His horror books don't do that much for me.
indeed. still, better you don't let Buz watch it. he's such an impressionable little bebeh.
if you haven't you should check out the other movies-by-bunnies at that link. brilliant stuff.
Mos def!
better man than me. ;P
even though is not 'horror' horror, "Misery" has to be excruciating to watch.
(I think The Simpsons did a parody too}