I missed the last fifteen minutes. Does "Redrum" mean Murder spelled backwards?
What happens to the main guy?
And please don't tell me to rent the movie and watch it. If I wanted to rent it, I would already have done that!
2006-08-21 17:39:36 · 13 answers · asked by ashcatash 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
In Jack Nicholson version, the kid leads him into the hedge maze and the father gets lost and freezes to death.
In the remake with the guy from wings and rebecca demornee, the father turns against the ghosts at the end, and does not dump the boiler, and the hotel blows up.
Fade Out.
Credits.
2006-08-21 17:46:32 · answer #1 · answered by d h 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, redrum is murder spelled backwards.
Jack runs out into the snow, gets lost in the maze and freezes to death. The last shot of the movie is a shot of a picture in the lodge, taken years prior to the movie, showing Jack in the picture.
It really does have a good ending. . .it might be worth the rental : )
BTW - I'm answering based on the original movie with Jack, not the TV version from a few years ago. Don't know if that makes a difference or not.
2006-08-21 17:46:06 · answer #2 · answered by BasketChick 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What can I say about the scariest movie I have ever seen that has not already been said by others more articulate than yours truly? Do not view this film expecting to see a screen version of the Stephen King novel. Rather, this is a Stanley Kubrick film, and to fully appreciate it one should judge it within the context of Kubrick's entire body of work as a serious filmmaker. Thematically, THE SHINING relates most closely to 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, though flourishes of PATHS OF GLORY, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and BARRY LYNDON do manage to figure prominently in the film's overall technique.
In a nutshell (no pun intended), Jack Nicholson and Shelly Duvall co-star with Oregon's Timberline Lodge - enlisted to portray the exterior of the Overlook Hotel - in a story that appears on the surface to be about ghosts and insanity, but deals with issues of child abuse, immortality and duality.
What the film might lack initially in terms of coherence is more than made up for in technique. Garrett Brown (the male voice in those old Molson Golden commercials), inventor of the Steadicam, chases young Danny Lloyd through hotel corridors and an amazing snow maze, providing magic-carpet-ride fluidity to scenes that ten years earlier would have been impossible to accomplish. If the film starts off too slow, remember who the director is. This man likes to take his time, and the results are well worth it: incredible aerial shots of the Overlook Hotel; horrific Diane Arbus-inspired twins staring directly at us; portentous room 237 and its treasure trove of terrible secrets; elevators that gush rivers of blood in slow-motion; Jack Torrance's immortality found via the hotel (akin to David Bowman's journey through the Space Gate); and some of the best use of pre-existing music ever assembled for a motion picture.
It would take a book to examine and defend the film's strong points and drawbacks. If you've never seen it, you owe it to yourself to watch it alone with the lights off, with no interruptions, and make sure that it's raining. This is a cinematic experience that changed my life at the age of 14. Makes a great double feature with Robert Wise's 1963 thriller THE HAUNTING.
2006-08-21 17:44:14 · answer #3 · answered by JoYbOy 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Im wondering where JoyBoy ripped off the review for this film at. certainly he didnt write it himself..
the Shining was a minor cult hit..not worthy to be ever included into Kubricks real catalog of great films..but thats to say that all directors have had hits and misses..so..this one basicially jumped the shark..
Kubrick had done a lot better..but i blame the source material....Steven King is pure SHLOCK from the getgo..all one has to do is research THAT back catalog to know that the "Stand" was his final book....and he shoulda walked out in front of a van immediately after writing the last page of it.
lets NOT forget "The Langoliers". Reminds me of a bellhop!!
2006-08-21 17:50:31 · answer #4 · answered by G-Bear 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, in the last fifteen minutes - lets see. First there was the climax and then I'm pretty sure the credits were next followed by a cup of cocoa and early to bed.
2006-08-21 17:46:58 · answer #5 · answered by kai 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes, redrum spelled backwards is murder... that's how wendy found out that jack was going to kill her and danny. jack goes crazy and wendy and danny runs out of the hotel and goes into the maze and jack follows them but ends up freezing to death. wendy and danny is rescued by the cook of the hotel. and the final scene is the picture of jack and his friends at the party in that same hotel. the ending freaked me out. one of the scariest movies i've ever seen in my life, how can you MISS THE ENDING???
2006-08-21 17:45:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes redrum is murder backwards. and jack freezes to death and has to stay at the hotel as a "ghost".
2006-08-21 17:44:13 · answer #7 · answered by dragonfiy81 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jack Nicholson yells here comes johnnnyyy
He got lost in the maze and died from hyp0thermia
2006-08-21 17:45:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Heres Johnny!
2006-08-21 17:44:29 · answer #9 · answered by PommyTom 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He freezes to death in the maze and they get away, then the hotel still stays haunted with him in the picture in the lobby, one of my favs.
2006-08-21 17:45:12 · answer #10 · answered by Jinx 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋