The cinematography, the sound design, set design, Jack Nicolson being Jack Nicolson, but the whole film is unsettling and a masterpiece.
@LoveHandle4890
Жыл бұрын
A masterpiece that has stood the test of time and always will.
@krazyoldkatlady192
Жыл бұрын
It’s the way that sound is used that freaks me out.
@lisasmith767
Жыл бұрын
Some of the creepiest music in film history.
@victoriabean6279
Жыл бұрын
YES! VERY AGREEABLE!!! The soundtrack Throughout the ENTIRE film 📽️🎥 also GAVE ME THE MOST UNEASINESS FEELING! Including those High-pitched Whining Ear popping sounds Too! 🎥📽️👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾😨😰😳😈👿🥶🥶🩸🩸🚪🪓👭🔪🧊🥃
@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat
Жыл бұрын
Correction, the poster is a man on skis, not a horse.
@davidbutler1622
Жыл бұрын
The father being the threat is what unsettled me. If you’re lucky enough to have a good father the thought of him trying to kill you and your mum is horrifying.
@Thehungrywolf999
Жыл бұрын
Agreed. Jack was always the real threat. But he wasn’t a good father to begin with.
@SmartDave60
Жыл бұрын
I’m an 80s kid. We didn’t know all this.. but we kept watching over and over again.
@velocitor3792
Жыл бұрын
The uncertainty about what is reality and what isn't. Unlike monster films like Alien, the threats are all internal (in one's mind) not external. You can't trust your own judgment. This is what makes The Shining CREEPY, rather than SCARY. In my opinion, creepy affects something deeper in the viewer, and stays with you much longer.
@stephenwalker2924
Жыл бұрын
Great point. CREEPY is, like, slow and quiet and sneaky SCARY.
@drbuckley1
Жыл бұрын
What's creepy is Jack and his family. Both book and film can be interpreted as Jack abusing Danny sexually. I'd like to think Danny's repressed terror and hatred of this father unconsciously unleashed Tony, who used the hotel to punish and destroyJack.
@michaelcross9557
Жыл бұрын
The rolling tympanis in so many scenes always unnerves me.
@jasonuerkvitz3756
Жыл бұрын
I'm surprised you didn't mention that ghosts, actual ghosts, interact with the characters. That these revenants are extensions and manifestations of the hotel's supernatural aspects, that the hotel is constantly gathering occupants, not in the flesh, but as a dead and ever growing ensemble forever imprisoned within its halls.
@schmarpsywinkleurnklabean659
Жыл бұрын
The symmetrical shots, the changing of the environment between shots, the music and the 'boldness' of each scene and Wendy's face are what makes the movie.
@torque8899
Жыл бұрын
I think it’s the unknowable hidden horror of the whole location. You get hints as to how bad the place is but you always feel like it’s way worse than you see.
@leoinsf
Жыл бұрын
I t is very interesting that the introduction of the 20's music at the end of "The Shining" becomes another element of horror that adds a sense of "unworldliness" that seems to steadily engulf the characters, especially at the end of the movie! 20's music is usually carefree, but not in the setting of this movie. We know how dissonant most of the other music is: Bartok, etc.! Out of nowhere comes this nostalgic music that should be adding remembrance and innocence to the scenes, but here is becomes almost mournful and disastrous! Kubrick was amazing in his choice of music in all of his movies and no less in his masterpiece: "The Shining."
@NextWorldVR
Жыл бұрын
I suspect you would like the series of albums entitled; 'Everywhere at the End of time
@jabberdouche
Жыл бұрын
6:55 That is a minotaur. That is a picture of a guy downhill skiing. They live at a ski resort
@goremall4330
Жыл бұрын
For me it's the combination of the music score and the overall isolation
@michaelcafaro4022
Жыл бұрын
You had jacks psychosis, the supernatural aspect of the overlook compounded with Danny’s ESP. The rural setting also added a depth of helplessness for Wendy and Danny.
@Known-unknowns
Жыл бұрын
Kubrick was clever. He allows us to employ our own imagination to interpret what the film means.
@Kevincarlloven
Жыл бұрын
Stanley Kubrick makes it unsettling. The man is a directing genius, just go look at "2001: A Space Odyssey", that movie came out in 1968(before we went to the moon), and looks like it was filmed today. Kubricks movies are lifetime events, not just movies.
@mlb556
11 ай бұрын
Still wondering if the "shining" was so great, why did it omit warning to the son the father was going to strangle him? Also, the "shining" directed the cook to leave his home and return to the hotel, only to abandon him at the hotel by omitting a warning Jack was going to kill him. The "shining" word can take on an abusive connotation. Like when a person is hit in the eye and it swells, it takes on a "shine" of its own. Appears everyone took on a shine in the movie.
@beverlykrebs4372
Жыл бұрын
Um, every freakin thing!!! My husband looks like Jack Nicholson & he used to do thec"Here's Johnny" face at me, til I threatened to leave him one time he scared me so bad! Well, I guess he knows how to get me to leave if he ever wants to! Lol. But that was 33 years ago & I'm still here! 😂😂😂
@paulbentley1705
Жыл бұрын
Lol!
@SquidwardLSDSquirtingOctopussy
11 ай бұрын
To me, Jack Nicholson looks like if Jack Black & Jim Carrey had a baby together. And while I may not look like Jack, or was even alive when the movie was coming out, I still loved to rip open my girlfriends or her female friends tent on trips & scream the exact same line. Of course they didn't know the reference, but it was still funny nevertheless. lol
@beverlykrebs4372
11 ай бұрын
@@SquidwardLSDSquirtingOctopussy HaHa!! Absolutely! As long as YOU got a good laugh out of it, that's the important thing!😂 But depending on the girls' senses of humor, you may have to keep in mind that they are thinking "revenge will be sweet" ! And you know what? I thought about it & yes, I totally agree that Jack Nicholson could very well be a cross between Jack Black & Jim Carrey!! But in reality, is the world actually ready for such a person? I think not!! Lol!!
@stephenhowe4107
Жыл бұрын
The only thing I would say in your description is you have left out the Supernatural elements of the Overlook Hotel. It is not *JUST* Jack Torrance's deteriorating mental state. So room 237, the twins, the ghosts in the Hotel play their part.
@jasonuerkvitz3756
Жыл бұрын
So much so, one gets him drunk and later lets him out of the food storage room. Critical and unsettling component.
@johnlynch-kv8mz
Жыл бұрын
@@jasonuerkvitz3756some people just Won’t imagine that, even when they have it clearly spelled out to them by a master movie maker. For such people, there is nothing but what THEY can see hear touch and smell, or taste. For them they won’t accept any other understanding.
@Lue_Jonin
Жыл бұрын
Stanley Kubrick.... That's all that needs to be said for this masterpiece. ❤ 😱 🎥
@wangson
Жыл бұрын
Good point.
@redpillnibbler4423
Жыл бұрын
The location is inspired.There’s something very unsettling about the emptiness of the hotel.Imagine walking alone around the silent hallways,it would be very creepy to me.
@alexsmart5452
Жыл бұрын
6:58 is a poster for skiing. It even says SKI in it. no horses the poster above the twins, in the hallway is a minotaur
@skeeterradar
Жыл бұрын
the most unsettling thing about this movie is not fear (its not that scary); its the idea of isolation and looming dread, and how such an environment can lead to mental erosion and the inability to differentiate between what is real and what our psyche creates in a void.
@jasonuerkvitz3756
Жыл бұрын
When I saw this film I was 9 years old. This movie absolutely horrified me. It's perhaps the scariest film I've ever seen. I hesitated clicking on the thumbnail because the image of Danny's terrified face conjured old memories of my own terror from watching this movie. I disagree with you, this movie is absolutely scary. My father scared me in similar ways to Jack Torrence. The thought of my dad becoming so unhinged he'd try to kill me or my mom with an axe is horrific. Indeed, The Shining is one of the scariest, if not the scariest film ever made.
@redpillnibbler4423
Жыл бұрын
I think it is pretty scary,it plays on subconscious primal fears of something insidious and unseen.
@brianaandahl2291
Жыл бұрын
One of the best movies ever made. But notice how The Overlook Hotel at the very start has no hedge maze when they show the overhead shot. Also, the hotel opened in 1909, requiring a caretaker every winter. So why only the one tragity in 1970 with the Grady family? That is what makes the movie so unsettling for me.
@Jimmy1982Playlists
Жыл бұрын
There were all kinds of tragedies in the hotel's history... much of this was cut out of the film, when Kubrick got rid of scenes focusing on the scrapbook that can be seen in a few shots at Jack's writing table. The scrapbook is filled with newspaper stories of all kinds of horror thru the years.
@magnuskallas
Жыл бұрын
Correct. And in that sense it shares more in common with IT than just the author - the place has a history of evil.
@rickriffel6246
Жыл бұрын
As different the movie is from the book it adapts, the few things both have in common -- the basic plot, the basic themes, and the similarities of both to certain things that occur in real life -- those are what makes Kubrick's The Shining so unsettling.
@Thehungrywolf999
Жыл бұрын
Kubricks version is much more unsettling.
@joeharris3878
Жыл бұрын
Kubrick uses devices to create feelings in his audience. A favorite of his is to bring a sense of oppression, entrapment and doom: no way out, foregone conclusions, control by others, of helplessness. In "The Shining" that is pretty much the entire film. Otherwise "Paths of Glory" is the same with the trenches and the manor where the French HQ is. 2001 the same. The characters are like chess pieces, they can only travel in certain ways. The astronauts, the soldiers, the mother and child, the murderer all follow predestined paths. Tunnels, halls, sidewalks, emergency hatches, courtroom aisles.....
@christopherlewis1315
Жыл бұрын
6:58 A man riding a horse? 😂 That's a man skiing, his knees are just bent.
@sham8444
Жыл бұрын
Awesome analysis
@Chrisoula17
Жыл бұрын
Kubrick’s magic.
@filmbuff2777
Жыл бұрын
One of the things that gets under my skin is how subtle Kubrick is. Watching Rob Ager's videos analyzing the imagery disturbed me. I didn't think of these ideas when watching the film myself. Kubrick was a master. The book is manipulative & cheesy.
@Jimmy1982Playlists
Жыл бұрын
Rob Ager has a lot of ridiculousness in his analysis... I wouldn't take him too seriously.
@kxkxkxkx
Жыл бұрын
@@Jimmy1982Playlistsyou are a fool ☝️ Ager is correct
@kxkxkxkx
Жыл бұрын
When you find out what the movie is really about you will be truly "unsettled"
@magnuskallas
Жыл бұрын
Yup. And this might be the reason King was unhappy, since the book had autobiographical elements in it (addiction), and adding the "predator father" themes to it might want to make the author distance himself from it.
@tiborosz1825
Жыл бұрын
What makes this scary is that its a film taking place in reality where the paranormal should not be as opposed to a setting where you expect it. The events are glum and depressing as opposed to disguisting.
@johnwatts8346
10 ай бұрын
well just perhaps it might be because its a film about alcoholism, domestic violence and incest?
@JONINXBOX
Жыл бұрын
God video thanks for posting.
@tubularap
11 ай бұрын
The "Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society" has posted this interview with Gordon Stainforth, just today on July 24th 2023 : title: The Film Programme: The Shining with Gordon Stainforth [2019] kzitem.info/news/bejne/z7CGx2mYq3eHdoI Gordon offered to share his memories, and it is worth listening to. He tells how Stanley approached him for the job of editing the score, how he handled scenes, and about his contact with Stanley.
@mahirahnaf7386
Жыл бұрын
The shining is a maze created by kubrick. Only by deep analysis you can find the true meaning
@ostrichman
Жыл бұрын
this video was put on a few days ago - another wee detail that may have been missed that adds to the whole unsettling nature of it, once he details it you know those glances are there throughout. kzitem.info/news/bejne/sqhstpuNf6Vhg6w
@matthewbyrd398
Жыл бұрын
The poster in the game room is of a man on skis. He’s not riding a horse.
@BigArt1970
Жыл бұрын
6:58 That'd a guy skiing, though it does look like someone with animal legs.
@Mama-eu1ss
Жыл бұрын
It's that the hotel is a magnet for the good and bad of those that have the shine.
@johnlynch-kv8mz
Жыл бұрын
4:17 Maybe, maybe he’s realizing who he truly is; a pure psycho
@tiborosz1825
Жыл бұрын
Kubrick gets falsely credited for his mistakes as 'making us confused'. The maze and hotel shape are just insignificant and over analysed.
@jayrum7303
Жыл бұрын
They stumbled upon the maze? Ok.
@Non-dual-mind1
Жыл бұрын
6:53 That is not a man riding a horse. He's skiing.
@Kiss.mwah71
10 ай бұрын
The "lion man" isn't a lion man at all. In the book the lion man is a man in a dog costume that prevented Wendy from making sure Jack was still in the pantry. If you don't wanna read the book, the Stephen King The Shining series will help explain the dog man characters better.
@gregorytyson995
Жыл бұрын
Nostalgia.
@wesleymcneese8554
Жыл бұрын
I think the poster in the room where Danny's playing darts is of a guy skiing. I don't think it hurts your argument though, still a great video.
@NatashaDieter
10 ай бұрын
A Clockwork Orange
@NatashaDieter
10 ай бұрын
He Overlooks
@shaheersk721
Жыл бұрын
The overlook doesn’t make sense at all. The architecture, room designs (especially the ullman office and 237), inconsistent dialogues, hedge maze and Dick Halloran not alerting the authorities and instead going to the place himself even though he had the shining episode with danny ! I think the movie is open ended to interpretations.
@ChucksCherubs3
Жыл бұрын
"A poster of a man riding a horse" LOL! Do you have cataracts? That's a man skiing on that image. It even says SKI in huge letters where you think you see a horse... of course, of course. 🐴
@danielradilla6342
11 ай бұрын
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@kennethmullen-qe9hg
Жыл бұрын
The cunnin' predator deep within Jack Torrance has begun spreading its way through his entire body like the cancer that it is. He's like that of a cat as he's hovering over fascinated by those fish stuck swimming about inside the tank; or watching the two mice, trapped and working their ways through the maze's endless, long running corridors, and its countless dead ends, its misdirections, and false security, in knowing, that it is just a friendly little game, something to help pass the time...not knowin', that to escape from the high, expertly-trimmed, topiary walls would take them from the barely simmerin' pan to face the fire, as it's slowly but steadily cranking upward to the max; if, somehow, able to avoid it burning them both, alive, escaping back up into the pan of the maze, attempting to reach or regain relative safety the cat chef tilts the pan igniting its contents to flambé the adorable too-trusting mice; it the cat entering into the maze itself and drawing each out, hanging from a single hooked claw, struggling, unsuccessfully, first one mouse -- than the other -- trying to free itself from its clutches and wrath soon to follow. It seemingly all in vain at first at least before enterin' into the belly of the beast, or entering into that final or ninth level of Hell, from which they must scurry up the scaly, hairy legs, and bulge of a groin, before scaling the smoldering torso of Satan himself, entering into and escaping through that hole, right beyond the Underworld ruler's head...though, not before sneakin' past right under his nose directly through his watchful gaze/vision while avoiding the death sentence, of the clutches of his snatchy, grasping clawed fists, left there, frozen in place forever, an unthreatening iced-over sentinel guardin' and watchin' over the deepest part, of its underground labyrinth, now it completely lackin' the ability, to do anything about it, other than to watch, wait and listen from the frozen perch that is now Satan's new, and forever, home. Praying to whatever it is that which he might so consider a god hoping, and begging for his prayers to be answered, bringing an early spring, or, an intense thaw, potentially freeing Satan of his -- at least for the time being -- bars of icicles comprising and making up what's now the very vengeful, dark lord's current permanent underground unwalled prison as the devil's (seemingly) always (stuck) in the details (ah...shucks...)! LmMFaO!!!
@runarvollan
Жыл бұрын
Simpler: What does not?
@benquinneyiii7941
Жыл бұрын
Apache Iroquois
@buckethead3535
Жыл бұрын
i giggled at 3:15
@mauriceortiz8817
Жыл бұрын
It's not settling
@mikezip9423
Жыл бұрын
Getting annoyed about what a “Genius” Kubrick was, when if fact he just didn’t bother with consistency issues within the film. It’s just a movie. I call bull$hit.
@jimnewl
Жыл бұрын
Never found it that unsettling. I saw it when it came out, and I still consider it an inferior horror movie (not an inferior movie, just an inferior horror movie--it doesn't horrify me). The scenes with Lloyd in the bar, however, and Wendy's discovery of what Jack has been typing, are inspired. "Unsettling" does describe them well.
@jamesgreen5371
Жыл бұрын
I think the shining is hilarious except the bathtub scene 😂
@eldronjaedike9374
10 ай бұрын
The unsettling point is everyone over looks, avoids, or falls for Wendy's gas-lighting. Wendy is the crazy lady in the show, Jack and Danny can't handle her insanity. Danny tries to cope with the threat of Wendy being violent towards his and repeatedly hurting him - by having his 'invisible friend's who lives in his mouth - so Danny can't voice his feats. And Jack goes along, because to face Wendy, she'll hurt Danny - Again! Or accuse Jack for doing what Wendy has done, in hurting Danny. The hallucinations are Wendy's, not the other characters. That's what is so menacing and in-nerving in the movie. There is no 'Shining' only Wendy Shining-Everyone-On fooling the audience. No Ghosts nothing super natural. It is psychological horror, Wendy's perpetuation of inflicting horror
@eliseintheattic9697
Жыл бұрын
That assumes it was unsettling. I didn't find it to be that way at all. It was basically a corny slasher flick with some better than average cinematography.
@madahad9
Жыл бұрын
I will never understand the reasons behind this being do highly regarded. I've never found it scary and as a Kubrick I think it is his second weakest film, with Eyes Wide Shut as his worst. What really sinks the film for me are the performances by Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall, but we can blame Kubrick for encouraging this over-the-top approach to the characters. They become so obnoxious that it is hard to sympathise with either one. Nicholson mugs and hams his way through the film, getting sillier as it goes along and becomes almost comical. But I have seen enough Kubrick films to know that he doesn't care for natural acting or realistic characters and likes to exaggerate them to extreme lengths. Most of the times it works, however here it just falls flat. David Cronenberg stated in an interview that Kubrick didn't understand the genre. I cannot find any elaboration on this comment but I understand what he meant. Kubrick is very cerebral and oftentimes it will sacrifice the characters to the theme he is exploring in that particular film. His films from Lolita to Eyes Wide Shut are satires on human behaviour and he said as much in an interview that The Shining is "about a family quietly going insane together." But as the story progresses he relies on some antiquated tropes that might have been effective in the 3 0's or 40's. Visually it is beautiful, but I tend to agree (cautiously) with Stephen King on how Kubrick robs the characters of all humanity. However he didn't help his own case when he was given the opportunity to remake The Shining as he envisioned. It actually made me appreciate the Kubrick version a little more, but not much. The ending still makes me laugh whenever I see it. Was the best Kubrick could think of to finish the film? Don't get me wrong and I don't hate the film, but I don't think that it is the "masterpiece of modern horror" the tagline wanted us to believe.
@Jimmy1982Playlists
Жыл бұрын
_Eyes Wide Shut_ is a masterpiece, and one of Kubrick's best... among the two or three best films of the '90s. _The Shining_ is brilliant, as well... sorry you don't agree. I think you're missing out!
@jamesbrice6619
Жыл бұрын
The book was very scary. The movie wasn't. It was a work of art, but it wasn't scary in the least.
@russellziske7385
Жыл бұрын
Literally serves as a metaphor? Seriously? 😅😅😅
@larry1824
Жыл бұрын
Kubrick wasted time in such elongated shit😅
@michaelholmes4374
Жыл бұрын
Only watched it once found it utterly boring
@NothingNowhere-vu5oq
Жыл бұрын
I noticed the other day that the maze only shows up in scenes where Wendy has at least looked at it. When she shoves Danny out the bathroom window, Wendy has seen it, even though she doesn't see Danny and Jack in it. Wendy is even in the model that Jack is watching. Wendy also walks past the model in one scene. But, when Wendy isn't in the maze or can't physically see the maze or the model, they disappear. They seem to only exist when she is present to observe them in some way. Yes, Wendy isn't present to see Jack frozen in the maze, but she saw it before he went into it. It's also weird that Wendy was able to drag a fully loaded waiter's cart with Jack's breakfast up a flight of stairs to the apartment floor (the elevators are only in the common areas) as well as drag it up the 5-6 stairs when entering the apartment. Like part of it is a dream/nightmare that Wendy is having. Just sayin'.
@TobyJames000
Жыл бұрын
Check out The Wendy Theory if you haven't. Could explain your observations.
@thename9552
10 ай бұрын
It's a story about the Mirrors in life. Jack was sexually assaulted. And he did the same to his son. Wendy is justice , the Mirror a reflection of earth/heart . It's also about the Mirrors of War and land. The twins. t-wins. Ss
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