EPISODE DESCRIPTION
HEEEEERE'S ADOLFO AND MARK! Join Adolfo and Mark on today’s spooky adventure: Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING (1980)
On this week’s show:
Trick or Treating in times COVID
Misguided contemporary reviews
How Kubrick decided to do a horror movie
Other actors considered for Jack Torrance
The constant script changes
Shelly Duval’s torture
The impossible window
Don’t build things on burial grounds
Charles Grady or Delbert Grady?
“The Shinning”
All the best people.
Minotaurs?
The importance of the stock room
When does Jack start going crazy
Which scene took 12 hours to film?
Naked ladies with afros
Creepy red bathrooms
You’ve always been the caretaker
Is the hotel haunted? Or is Jack crazy? Or both?
Mini reviews of ROOM 237 and DOCTOR SLEEP
Conspiracy theories
How much does Stephen King hate The Shining?
Fubo??
FILMS REFERENCED:
THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (1921)
FRANKENSTEIN (1931)
KING KONG (1933)
PSYCHO (1960)
SPARTACUS (1960)
LOLITA (1962)
THE BIRDS (1963)
THE TWILIGHT ZONE: “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” (Season 5, Episode 3, 1963)
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
THE EXORCIST (1973)
BARRY LYNDON (1975)
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
ROCKY (1976)
HALLOWEEN (1978)
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)
POLTERGEIST (1982)
THE THING (1982)
STEPHEN KING’S IT (1990)
THE SIMPSONS: “Treehouse of Horror V” (Season 6, Episode 6, 1994)
TWISTER (1996)
THE SHINING (Mini-Series, 1997)
EYES WIDE SHUT (1999)
ROOM 237 (2012)
READY PLAYER ONE (2018)
DOCTOR SLEEP (2019)
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