The film is still considered a horror classic to this day, with Warner Bros. even developing a Shining prequel entitled The Overlook Hotel, which has Mark Romanek.
The film is based on Stephen King’s best-selling novel of the same name, and fans of the book know there is one major difference between the novel ending and the ending Stanley Kubrick came up with.
The actual hotel which was used for The Overloook Hotel, the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO, was home to the Stanley Film Festival from 2013 to 2016, with the festival shifting gears this year.
“The ending was changed almost entirely because Kubrick found it a cliche to just blow everything up.