Fearing their customers would avoid room if the film proved popular, the hotel's management were appeased when Kubrick agreed to renumber the suite to room , which doesn't exist at the Timberline. The room also can't actually exist based on Kubrick's set. Just as the hallway behind the Colorado Lounge is physically impossible, so too are the interior and exterior dimensions of room The doorway to room is flanked by two other room entrances on the same wall.
The doors are spaced less than ten feet apart, which means there isn't enough room for the suite we see Jack Torrance walk through in search of the "crazy woman" his wife claims assaulted their son.
Harlan confirmed these spatial anomalies were intentional in a interview , saying, "The set was very deliberately built to be offbeat and off the track Room is the actual number of the suite where King and his wife Tabitha stayed on a visit to the Stanley in September of The couple were the only guests that night, as the following day the hotel would close for the winter.
That night I dreamed of my three-year-old son running through the corridors, looking back over his shoulder, eyes wide, screaming. King didn't know at the time that room was already famous to those who knew the history of the Stanley. In , chambermaid Elizabeth Wilson triggered an explosion when she entered the room, which she didn't know had a gas leak, with a lit candle following a power outage.
She was blown through the floor, but managed to survive and worked at the hotel until her death. Her spirit reportedly still haunts the room, "sometimes by folding guests' clothing and putting them away" or climbing into bed with unmarried couples to separate them.
It's the most popular room at the Stanley, with many ghost hunters and horror fans vying to spend the night in hopes of a visitation. Funnily enough, room is the most popular suite at the Timberline , too. Contained within the impossible walls of room is an improbable bathroom. Jack enters the green washroom as he makes his way through the suite in search of the woman who attacked his son. Sure enough, a young blonde woman pulls back the shower curtain.
Most caretakers who are as deadly serious about their job as Jack claims to be would be concerned about this nude squatter hiding in their hotel for over a month.
Jack simply smiles and embraces her, with horrifying results. Film writers and fans alike have speculated that this odd scene represents "the manifestation of the evil that lurks within the Overlook Hotel," claiming that "Jack Torrance kissing her is the moment the evil truly takes over his soul, setting in place the final act of the film.
In King's novel, the woman in room 's bathtub has a name and an identity: she is Mrs. Massey, a married woman who came to the Overlook to have an affair. While there, her lover leaves her, taking her expensive sports car with him. Distraught, she takes too many sleeping pills washed down with alcohol and dies in the hotel bathtub. The scene where we encounter Mrs. Massey's rotting corpse in The Shining is unsettling whether you're reading the book, watching Kubrick's film, or checking out King's mini-series where, admittedly, some thought he improved on the scene while others found it comical.
The bathtub in room at The Stanley doesn't resemble that one in Kubrick's bathroom, but it's a dead ringer for the claw-footed tub in both the TV miniseries and a well-reviewed opera made of The Shining, staged in That's not the last we see of Mrs.
Massey either — she returns in King's sequel novel Doctor Sleep , released in and slated to become a movie starring Ewan McGregor as the grown-up Danny Torrance. The secluded nature of the hotel coupled with these beliefs made it somewhat infamous even in-story but the struggling writer Jack Torrance was not put off by what he considered mere ghost stories and decided to head to the Overlook Hotel regardless as a refuge.
However the stories were far from fiction and soon Jack found himself going slowly insane, the Overlook Hotel manifesting various illusions including ghostly residents only Jack could see. One of the main questions that is deliberately left unanswered in the film are whether Jack is indeed going insane or if he is being influenced by a paranormal force: the reality may well have been both.
However, the fact that the apparitions of Delbert Grady was able to unbolt a locked door at one point, and that the apparition of Mrs. Massey was able to physically strangle Danny, would strongly imply that the apparitions in the hotel were indeed spirits and not just the characters' imagination or insanity.
In the novel, it is clearly stated that Jack has been corrupted by the evil power of the Hotel, the narration making a clear distinction between the things he has become, which is referred to as the "Monster", and the loving husband and father who resurfaces a short while before the hotel's destruction. The hotel is only destroyed in the novel and the TV series adaptation.
During the filming, Timberline Lodge asked Mr. Kubrik to use a fictitious room number so guests would not be too scared to stay in the actual room You can reserve room at the Timberline Lodge. Sometimes it can be tough to get, but if you book for more than one night, you might have a better chance to get the scariest of rooms.
Posted in Haunted Hotels and Real Haunts. I was at Mt. I have visited Mt Hood Lodge several times before the movie was made…it is a unit and charming place. Constructed as a WPA project.. It is a must to see!!
Biggest fireplace I have ever seen…5 hearths!! Is the Cecil Hotel truly haunted? The true horror stories that surround this building weave a dark and uncomfortable tale rife with unexplained deaths, serial killers, and horrors… Read more…. Read more…. Freelan Oscar Stanley, known for the Stanley Steamer among his many other companies, and his wife Flora came to the valley in from the East Coast.
He had been diagnosed with tuberculosis and given only months to live. However, the mountain air and climate of the valley improved his health. His summer home soon became a desire to turn the valley into a resort town which would cater to his wealthy social friends from Massachusetts.
The Stanley Hotel opened in and featured a music room where Flora played piano, a smoking lounge and a billiard room for Stanley and his male guests. A bowling alley, concert hall, a smaller hotel once called Stanley Manor and other contributing buildings were eventually built on the large acreage. Freeman died in , a year following the death of Flora in
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