What is The Shining / Room 237 about?

Double Feature: THE SHINING, 1980, Warner Bros., 142 min. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. Jack Nicholson takes a job as winter caretaker at an enormous mountain hotel, where he goes with wife Shelley Duvall and son Danny Lloyd in the hope that snow and solitude will bring him peace of mind. He finds just the opposite, however, as the hotel’s horrific past quickly overtakes him. ROOM 237, 2012, IFC Films, 102 min. Is this fascinating documentary a BORAT-style goof on the deification of Stanley Kubrick? Or is it - as director Rodney Ascher would have you believe - an examination of the wild theories that have sprung up around THE SHINING? Either way, you’ll never look at that 1980 horror hit the same way after you’ve paid a visit to ROOM 237.

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What is The Shining / Room 237 about?: Double Feature: THE SHINING, 1980, Warner Bros., 142 min. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. Jack Nicholson takes a job as winter caretaker at an enormous mountain hotel, where he goes with wife Shelley Duvall and son Danny Lloyd in the hope that snow and solitude will bring him peace of mind. He finds just the opposite, however, as the hotel’s horrific past quickly overtakes him. ROOM 237, 2012, IFC Films, 102 min. Is this fascinating documentary a BORAT-style goof on the deification of Stanley Kubrick? Or is it - as director Rodney Ascher would have you believe - an examination of the wild theories that have sprung up around THE SHINING? Either way, you’ll never look at that 1980 horror hit the same way after you’ve paid a visit to ROOM 237.