Welcome to Room 217. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Jason Horton and this is Ghost Town. If I bring up the movie The Shining, what is your initial reaction?

Like, spooky, call it.

Like you think of all of like, here's Johnny, you think of all of like here's Johnny you think of the you know like the overlook you think of blood coming out of elevators you think of things lost in time I think about like smoking opium in college for the first time and like watching the movie.

Well you know what you're thinking of? The Stanley Hotel.

Uh oh. We're going to be talking about the Stanley Hotel, which is the inspiration for the book and the movie, The Shining.

Yeah. So, and it has its own haunted elements obviously that got that created essentially the shining which is

Like when I think of like what are the movies in general that have made a huge impact on me and this isn't like

oh made a huge impact on me because the direction no like you'd be like

to Reese two

everly hills the shining the shining is like one of those things where it's just so True Beverly Hills, The Shining.

The Shining is like one of those things where it's just so,

it did such a good job at being weird and terrifying,

not just terrifying.

No, the suspense element of it was far beyond anything I even thought could scare me.

Like I never understood that a movie could be so subtle, really.

And it's really came out of the time, I feel like the 70s is a really great time or it came out in 80 but like still like the novel I think about in 1977.

It was a really great time for like a movie to be weird and the Stanley Hotel made it all happen and we're going to talk about that.

We're in a new year. And if you haven't seen the Shining. Yeah, let us tell you about it. Don't see it. Let us tell you about it. We're the shining. Yeah. Let us tell you about it. Let us tell you about it. We're the authority. Yeah, let us give you a couple sentences about it. Do something like nod to yourself as you're listening to this like, yeah, I've seen it, of course. And then you go back and you watch it feverishly so you know what we're

talking about do that now pause it do that now come back why you telling being people leave no

about them to stay you want them to subscribe but I mean it's Stephen King Stanley Kubrick don't need help we need the help don't leave

They're coming back they always come they don't they never always come back they never come back to go sound. It's a new year. Can you believe it's been I think almost six months that we've been doing this?

Holy shit. When you say that doesn't it feel like it has not been six months?

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