And thus The Shining is one of those great films that I skip at every opportunity.
LOL! Don't you love that those exist?
But yes, that's the thing in the movie is the people are trapped but there's not clear line where the bad stuff is coming from. I think SK referred to the Overlook as a "bad place," one of those places that are just...bad. It's not that the place is haunted by specific ghosts, it's that the hotel itself is crazy. Hill House is like that too, according to Shirley Jackson. In the first paragraph she says that it's "not sane." So it's a much creepier thing. It's not just being in a house with other people who are ghosts, it's living inside of an insane organism that affects what's inside of you. Until you can't tell the difference between you and it.
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LOL! Don't you love that those exist?
But yes, that's the thing in the movie is the people are trapped but there's not clear line where the bad stuff is coming from. I think SK referred to the Overlook as a "bad place," one of those places that are just...bad. It's not that the place is haunted by specific ghosts, it's that the hotel itself is crazy. Hill House is like that too, according to Shirley Jackson. In the first paragraph she says that it's "not sane." So it's a much creepier thing. It's not just being in a house with other people who are ghosts, it's living inside of an insane organism that affects what's inside of you. Until you can't tell the difference between you and it.