How Scary is The Shining?
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Re: How Scary is The Shining?
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Also I have to confess, whilst reading the book I had a nightmare that I was stuck in the overlook hotel and couldn't get out! I just kept running through those corridors with that crazy carpet haha lol
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ME TOO. Those were the exact same parts that scared me the most. My mom told me once that in a Stephen King interview when asked if he was ever scared while writing he said only once and that it was when writing the 217 scene. I don't know if he meant the Danny one or the Jack one, but the Jack one was way scarier to me so I'm just gonna assume he meant that one. Another really scary part was when someone(I forget who, I assume Dick) was remembering when a hotel worker got fired for having a ghostly experience in 217 and he mentioned how she saw the dead old lady grinning. It was really brief, like one sentence even, but it was really scary.Grarodkay89 wrote:There are two parts that really scared me: when Jack goes to check what scared Danny and he ALMOST opens the bathroom door, but turns away and as he does so...he hears something from within step toward the bathroom door to let him IN. Holy cow. That horrified me.
I feel the same way, I didn't find the scenes where the topiary animals were attacking to be scary at all, I thought it was way creepier with Jack where he never actually saw them AS they moved and just saw them in new positions each time he looked. I think it's the same thing with Jack vs Danny's experiences in 217, it's that Jack never really sees anything that makes it creepier. I think you're probably like me where you happen to find subtler, more mysterious things scarier than stuff that's more over-the-top and I think it's because the smaller, subtler things are more believable. Stuff that is obviously fantastical and completely unbelievable is not the kind of stuff that makes my skin crawl and the hairs stand up.Grarodkay89 wrote:Also, the scene out on the grounds with Jack and the animal-shaped hedges. You'd think that such a setting would be comical, but no. No. The SUSPENSE!
It's weird because both Danny and Jack experienced the bathroom lady and the hedges, but the encounters that adult Jack faced scared me more than what "helpless" kid Danny faced. Shouldn't I have been more frightened for the kid?
Completely agree.Mangotea1988 wrote:It's scary in that watching Jack's slow, painful slide is plausible enough to be terrifying. The hotel is only intensifying what's already there and one of the themes is the effects addiction and violence has over generations, so some of the worst parts (to me) are the flashbacks of the way's Jack's life has already been poisoned. The actual supernatural stuff is definitely creepy but is almost more like a symptom than a cause of Jack's degeneration.
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