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Today, the hotel includes a restaurant, spa, and bed-and-breakfast; with panoramic views of Lake Estes, the Rockies, and Longs Peak. The Stanley Hotel served as the inspiration for the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's 1977 novel The Shining and its 1980 film adaptation. It was also a filming location for the related 1997 TV miniseries.
The dominating presence of the Overlook Hotel – designed by Roy Walker as a composite of American hotels visited in the course of research – is an extraordinary vindication of the value of mise en scène. It's a real, complex space that we don't just see but come to virtually inhabit.
Jack Torrance, an aspiring writer, [1] is hired as the winter caretaker at the Overlook Hotel, an isolated resort hotel in the Colorado Rockies. Jack is a recovering alcoholic with anger issues which, prior to the story, had caused him to accidentally break his son Danny's arm and lose a teaching job after assaulting a student.
‘The Shining' Hotel. Estes Park, Colorado. Stephen King wrote "The Shining," in which malevolent spirits haunt a family acting as winter caretakers for the isolated Overlook Hotel, after his ...
In 1980, the Dakota’s legend took a sad real-life turn: John Lennon, who lived in the building with his wife, Yoko Ono, was shot to death at the 72nd Street entrance. [Editor's note: This story ...
The Shining is a 1980 American psychological horror film based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Stephen King.The film tells the story of Jack Torrance, an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic, who accepts a position as the off-season caretaker of the isolated historic Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies.
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[5] Produced by Tim Kirk, the documentary's title refers to a room in the haunted Overlook Hotel featured in The Shining. Room 237 was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes and Sundance film festivals. [6] [7] Its distribution rights were acquired by IFC Midnight and was exhibited theatrically and on VOD on March 29 ...