Where to stay:The film's fictional setting of Kalokairi is actually Skopelos, one of the 24 islands in the Sporades archipelago, located off the northeastern coast of mainland Greece.Adrina Resort & Spaspills down from a green hillside to a private rocky beach and is within walking distance of...
Back in Florida, Dick has had no luck contacting the people at the Overlook Hotel. Worried about Danny, he books the next flight to Colorado.At the Overlook, Wendy arms herself with a baseball bat and looks for Jack, intent on leaving the hotel with Danny whether or not Jack agrees to ...
Filming Location in Colorado: Boulder – University of Colorado Portions of this film were shot in Colorado. A short description of this movie is coming soon. Please check back at a later date. Plastic Planet (2009) Filming Location in Colorado: Paonia Portions of this film were shot in Colo...
The location of the Bates house fromPsychoin both the 1960 and 1998 remake were filmed on Universal Studios Hollywood’s lot, but the 1998 production built a new house at a different location on the lot. Despite the criticism of the remake being a slavish reshoot of the original film, t...
Stephen King’s 1977 bestselling novel is a spin on the traditional haunted house story. When King and his wife, Tabitha, paid a late-season visit to The Stanley Hotel in Colorado, they found themselves the only guests in residence as the staff packed everything up for the winter. King ...
What hotel is The Shining based on? The exterior of Timberline Lodge in Oregon features in Stanley's Kubrick's film (interior scenes were shot at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire), whileThe Stanley Hotel in the Colorado Rockies(pictured) was the inspiration for Stephen King's novel, on which...
Williamson's script managed to deftly be so many things -- it was a sly meta/self-parody about the horror genre that didn't cross the line into goofiness, while also playing as a successful whodunit and, most importantly, an effective horror film in and of itself. Finally a group of ...
As John Wayne once said in a western (I can't remember which one, but I'm sure someone here will), "I wouldn't like to live on the difference" I'm pretty sure that's Rio Bravo when John T. Chance is talking about the gun skill of Dude and Colorado. Reactions: PMF Oct 12...
Having found two examples of windows that shouldn’t exist (Ullman’s office and the Colorado Lounge), I decided to go through the film scene by scene and draw maps of the Overlook sets. Here are some of the results. Inside the Torrance’s apartment we find that there are windows in bo...
14.The Shining(1980) The Shelley DuVall and Jack Nicholson cult classic. When writer Jack Torrence moves to the isolated historic Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies, with his wife, Wendy Torrance and son, no one would expect for Jack's mental sanity to take a landslide as he is gifted...