The Shining

5 Haunted Houses Where I'd Love to Stay the Night

Varla Ventura | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Psycho, Stephen King, Preston Castle, Haunted House, Dark Shadows, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Dickens, Johnny Depp, The Shining, American Horror Story, Bates Motel, Haunted Places, Weird News News
Varla Ventura

Here are a five freaky places I'd stay the night if I could, possibly take up residence and hang out all night with those things that go bump in the night!

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Awkward (Film) Family Portraits

Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Mad Men, Tv Family Portraits, Television, Video, Arrested Development, Breaking Bad, Gallery 1988, Los Angeles Art Exhibition, Cult Tv, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Pop Culture, The Shining, Slideexpand, Kirk Demarais, Arts News

Kirk Demarais creates the stereotypical J.C. Penney awkward family portrait with a crucial twist: he portrays fictional families from film and TV. His...

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Diane Arbus' Strange Neighbors

Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Photography, Diane Arbus Fotomuseum Winterthur, Diane Arbus, Fotomuseum Winterthur, The Shining, Female Artists, Arbus, UK Arts, Slidepollajax, Arts News

Diane Arbus's now famous black-and-white photographs made supposedly normal people look like freaks and supposed freaks look altogether normal. She sn...

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The Week In Art

Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Video, Toy Story, Week in Art, Kathy Halper, Roundup, Week in Review, Shockblast, Toy Shining, The Shining, Stephen-Chalmers, Arts News

Hello dear readers. This week we saw what happens when a crafty Mom gets a Facebook account, if Woody and Buzz went to the dark side and if God was on...

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'Toy Story' Meets 'The Shining'

Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Video, Toy Story 3, Twitter, Lee Unkrich, Pixar Studio, Stanley Kubrick, Kyle-Lambert, Toy Shining, The Shining, Pixar, Disney Pixar, Slidepollajax, Jack Nicholson, Animation, Arts News

It is incredibly creepy when childhood artifacts are put into a darker, more adult context. We can't imagine anything scarier than Stanley Kubrick's "...

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Horror Movie Trailers Should Be Banned

Julian Sancton | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Horror Movie Trailers, The Devil Inside, Horror Movies, Horror Movie Films, The Devil Inside Movie, Scary Movies, Paranormal Activity, The Shining, Entertainment News
Julian Sancton

The great thing about America is that I can choose not to go see The Devil Inside. The terrible thing about America is that I can't choose not to see the trailer for The Devil Inside. To be honest, I had it coming.

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Peaches Christ Promises an Absolutely Insane Christmas

Pollo Del Mar | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Peaches Christ, Holiday, Christmas, Midnight Mass, Horror Film, Trannyshack, The Castro Theatre, Drag Queen, The Shining, The Castro, Jack Nicholson, San Francisco News
Pollo Del Mar

With her merry band of miscreants, Peaches Christ is showcasing the Jack Nicholson horror classic, The Shining, complete with highly-scripted and entirely-original pre-show dragstravaganza.

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The World's Most Intriguing Haunted Hotels

Luke Malone | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast and Museum, Halloween, Ghosts, Haunted Hotels, The Shining, Hotels, Stephen King, Travel News
Luke Malone

Ghost tours may seem like a guilty pleasure, but there is a perfectly legitimate way to humor the believer within: Bunkering down in a reputedly haunted hotel.

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PHOTOS: 7 Haunted Hotels Where You Can Get Your Paranormal On

Elizabeth Thorp | Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Hotels, Halloween, Haunted, Aspen, France, Paranormal Activity, Ghosts, Travel, The Shining, Chateau Marmont, Poshbrood, National Register of Historic Places, Slidepollajax, Travel News
Elizabeth Thorp

"One bartender almost got fired because he would lock the liquor cabinet every night and the hotel manager would find it wide open every morning." We love a ghost that enjoys a nip!

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WATCH: Stephen King Provides Preview Of 'The Shining' Sequel

Madeleine Crum | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: The Shining, Stephen King, The Shining Sequel, Shining Sequel. Stephen King the Shining, Video, Books News

The last we heard of the troubled and mystical Danny Torrance, he had just conquered the malicious Overlook Hotel, losing his father, Jack, along the ...

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Stephen King Sounds Off On "Carrie" Remake

ew.com | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Carrie, The Shining, Stanley Kubrick, Book Adaptations, Stephen King, Film Adaptations, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Books News

Thirty-five years after Stephen King’s first best-seller roared into theaters and scared a generation of prom-going teens, MGM and Screen Gems have ...

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America: You're Fired!

Will Durst | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Kate Moss, Mike Huckabee, The Shining, Donald Trump, The Crying Game, Mother Cluckers, Newt Gingrich, Comedy News
Will Durst

I want to know. You want to know. The whole world wants to know. What's the deal with the surprising retiring Republicans?

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Experience Stanley Kubrick's World In New Exhibition

Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Paris Film Museum, Video, Paths of Glory, Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick, Deutsch Film Museum, Eyes Wide Shut, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Spartacus, The Shining, The Killing, Film, Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Arts News

To watch a Stanley Kubrick film like '2001: A Space Odyssey' or 'Dr. Strangelove' is to enter a veritable museum of pioneering set design and visual e...

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WATCH: A Video Tribute To Stanley Kubrick On The Anniversary Of His Death

The Huffington Post | Melinda Brocka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Stanley Kubrick, Entertainment, Eyes Wide Shut, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Anniversary Kubrick Death, Spartacus, Kubrick Death, The Shining, Barry Lyndon, Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Arts News

Today marks the anniversary of the death of legendary American film director Stanley Kubrick who died March 7, 1999 from natural causes, he was 70. ...

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Diary of A Madman. BAM Artist Talk: Geoffrey Rush & Neil Armfield

Lily Bevan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Shine, Bam, Academy Awards, Sydney, Theatre, The Shining, The Oscars, NY Around Town, New York, Gogol, Geoffrey Rush, Cinema, Arts News
Lily Bevan

Although not a delusional madness like that of his glorious character Poprishchin, mincing around the stage like a "frightened insect on an agar plate...

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Interview: Stephen Dorff likes beingSomewhere

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Waters, Benicio Del Toro, Cecil B. Demented, Stephen Dorff Interview, The Power of One, Chateau Marmont, Honkytonk Man, Stephen Dorff, Marshall Fine Interview, Marshall Fine, Clint Eastwood, Somewhere, John Lennon, Zoe Cassavetes, The Shining, Backbeat, Jack Nicholson, Sofia Coppola, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Stephen Dorff has been a working actor since he was a pre-teen - and launched himself into features at 19 with The Power of One in 1992. But while he...

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PHOTOS: Stanley Hotel Designer's Historic Home Listed For $2.4m

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Estes Park, Stanley Home, Stanley Kubrick, 1903, Slidepollajax, Stanley Hotel, The Shining, Real Estate, F.O. Stanley, Denver News

The famous and historic Stanley Hotel in Estes Park was designed by F.O. Stanley, who also made his home in the Colorado town in 1903. The home he fas...

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Going Bump in the Night: More Prime Halloween Movie Fare

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Suspiria, Halloween, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Guillermo Del Toro, Stanley Kubrick, Don Siegel, The Ring, The Shining, Poltergeist, George Romero, Dawn of the Dead, Steven Spielberg, Horror Movies, Dario Argento, Roman Polanski, Halloween 2010, Entertainment News
John Farr

My own personal exploration into the movies that petrify me most inspired me to compile a fresh list of skin-crawling entries that in my view do full justice to the spirit of Halloween.

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WATCH: 15 Movies That Are Better Than The Book

The Huffington Post | Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, The Thin Red Line, Stephen King, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Network, John Wayne, The Devil Wears Prada, The Shining, Sideways, Facebook, John Ford, Shawshank Redemption, The Princess Bride, The Shawshank Redemption, Book Adaptation, Election Tom Perrotta, Manchurian Candidate, Accidental Billionaires, Movie Adaptations, The Manchurian Candidate, Movie Adaptation, Jaws, The Godfather, The Searchers, Stanley Kubrick, Devil Wears Prada, Book Adaptations, Adaptations, Thin Red Line, Adaptation, Bad Book, Books News

The book is so much better than the movie. We've all said it, we've all heard it. And we all think it's always true, that the book is better than the ...

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I Hate It When Kids Get Hurt : The Grief Porn of Summer 2010

Nancy Doyle Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chris Cleave, Pet Sematary, Red Hook Road, The Shining, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Nancy Meyers, Anna Quindlen, Little Bee, Every Last One, Ayelet Waldman, Roxana Robinson, Cost, David-Wroblewski Stephen King, Books News
Nancy Doyle Palmer

In college my friends and I used to love to watch Baretta ironically and wait for Robert Blake to shake his head and say "I hate it when kids get hurt...

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Six Stories: Salinger Inspired Cinema

Kim Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Royal Tenenbaums, The Shining, Kim Morgan, Taxi Driver, The Collector, JD Salinger, Entertainment News
Kim Morgan

Salinger's Garbo-like elusiveness and impossible adaptations never stopped legions of filmmakers from being influenced by both the work and the man.

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Defiant Danish Director Lars von Trier Tackles Antichrist

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Antichrist, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lars Von Trier, Willem Dafoe, New York Film Festival, Films, New York City, Movies, Misogyny, Psycho, Carrie, Andrei Tarkofsky, The Shining, Horror, Rosemary's Baby, The Antichrist, Friedrich Nietzsche, Manderlay, Dogville, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

Questions for Lars von Trier: "You had a a researcher on misogyny in the credits. In the writing or making of this film did you learn something about misogyny in yourself, in your work?"

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The Shining: Scariest Hallowe'en Book -- and Movie! -- Ever

Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jack Torrance, Wendy Torrance, Rachel Sklar, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Shelly Duvall, Jack Nicholson, Overlook Hotel, Books News
Rachel Sklar

The Shining, which I read at 12, taught me to fear hotel room bathtubs, what a topiary was, why you can't forget about the boiler, and the phrase "officious little prick."

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A History Of Colorado Movies (VOTE)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Day of the Dead, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Any Which Way but Loose, Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, Starz Denver Film Festival, COlorado Movies, Slidepoll, How the West Was Won, The Shining, Dumb and Dumber, Denver News

In honor of the Starz Denver Film Festival, we've decided to comb through the history of Colorado film. You'll find the usual suspects--Butch Cassidy...

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Mental Illness: The Stigma of Silence

Glenn Close | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Glenn Close, Mental Health, Psycho, The Shining, A Beautiful Mind, Health, Fatal Attraction, BringChange2Mind.Org, Rainman, Healthy Living News
Glenn Close

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

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