It's a cult of horror

Rating: 8/10 (24 February 2018)

This is not only masterpiece but also cult in horror genre. This is the film that redefining the Modern Horror in Hollywood. Let me share some unknown facts about this film to everyone.
1. Before "The Shining", Stanley Kubrick was already in consideration to direct "The Exorcist" but he only wants to direct the film if he could produce it as well.
2. Kubrick did not even read the entire draft of the screenplay wrote by Stephen King. Instead Kubrick works with Diane Johnson on the screenplay which took them 11 weeks to complete the script.
3. Stephen King told Playboy in 1983, "I admired Kubrick for a long time and had great expectations for the project but I was deeply disappointed in the end result.
4. Kubrick hates to fly and refused to leave England. The opening credits of "The Shining" were shot by his second unit crew at Glacier National Park in Montana by using helicopter.
5. In the book, the spooky events are set in Room 217, not Room 237. The Timberline Lodge management asked for the room number changed because guess wouldn't avoid Room 217.
6. Young Dan Lloyd shoot this film during he is 5 years old but only watch the film during he is 16 years old. Initially he do not known that this is a horror film.
7. Nine hundred tons of salt were used to create the elaborate, wintery maze, it took a lot of salt and crushed Styrofoam.
8. The film took five years to make.
9. It was Kubrick's next film after his worst-received film, Barry Lyndon.