A new documentary looks at obsessive fans of Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror film The Shining, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. These... Hunting For Secrets In 'The Shining's' Room 237 Awhile ...

I've seen Stanley Kubrick's horror masterpiece, "The Shining," but "Room 237" proves I've never really seen it. This documentary, which came out last year, sheds light on the many interpretations of ...

Zooming…zooming…middle photograph, second row. There’s Jack Torrance, beaming, fronting his new (old?) family. July 4th Ball, 1921. Ascher acts as a portal ...

Here's the kind of theory the five interviewees in Rodney Ascher's Room 237 have come up with about Stanley Kubrick's The Shining: One believes it's an allegory about the genocide of Native Americans.

Like the blood that gushes forth from the elevators of the Overlook Hotel, brilliant/ridiculous theories of what Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is really about have for years surged madly and memorably ...

We hover over water where mountains surround us, heading toward a small island. The water is a mirror reflecting everything above, forming parabolas of sky that touch in the center. On our left, ...

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is a film that inspires strong reactions, and people have been trying to pin down what it’s really about almost since the day it was released. With Room 237, first-time ...

Did you know that "The Shining" might be an allegory about the Holocaust? Or, Stanley Kubrick's alleged acknowledgment that he helped fake the Apollo 11 moon landing? It could be the thinly-veiled ...

Although Jack Torrance is one known as of the best villains in horror, there's one aspect of his character that's rarely ever ...

Rodney Ascher, director of the experimental documentary Room 237, leads an exploration of differing interpretations of Stanley Kubrick's classic horror film The Shining. Awhile back, I went to the Los ...

A new documentary looks at obsessive fans of Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror film The Shining, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. These fanatics look for hidden meanings in the movie, and while ...