All work and no play can make for some pretty 'out there' conspiracy theories. Stephen King is not a fan.
The Big Picture We all know that Stephen King hates the 1980 movie adaptation of The Shining, but there's one thing that he hates more than what Stanley Kubrick did to his novel and that's the documentary Room 237. The 2012 doc, which speculates on The Shining's hidden meanings, is one of the most fascinating examples of the strange places fandom can lead. The Shining novel and film are both tales that work because of their deep sense of ambiguity.
What Exactly Is 'Room 237'? Named after the movie's haunted fictional hotel room, Room 237 is a documentary that aims to uncover the secrets found in every odd end of The Shining. In doing so, documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher brought in multiple people to share ideas that they have developed surrounding Kubrick's film. It seems that Ascher aimed to match The Shining's odd tone, so Room 237 delivers all of its concepts via voiceover.
Room 237's theories come at The Shining from a pretty wide variety of angles. There's a large chunk of the movie that is devoted to the theory that Kubrick attempted to admit to the world that he filmed the staged Apollo 11 Moon landing.
Kubrick's adaptation of King's novel was already hard enough for the famous author to sit through. The film made Jack Torrance an irredeemable psychopath, froze the Overlook, and went the opposite way of any notes that the original author had. King disliked the 1980 film so much that, in 1997, he produced and wrote his own made-for-TV Shining miniseries. That version didn't turn out so great, likely furthering his disdain for the Kubrick's acclaimed movie even more.
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