4 episodes
Shaping The Shining Christopher Berberian
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- TV & Film
WARNING:
The following content may disturb some viewers.
From Room 237 in the desolate Overlook Hotel, I'm Chris Berberian, and this is Shaping The Shining.
This podcast seeks to uncover the secrets and idiosyncrasies behind Stephen King's tale, and more notoriously, Stanley Kubrick's cinematic adaptation—a film that haunted the collective psyches of horror fans and mainstream audiences from the 1980s to today.
At your own risk, join us as we dive into the darkness inside Room 237 and explore the question... what drives our madness?
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Part Four: A Never-Ending Nightmare
Today, hundreds of theories and dozens of documentaries have tackled the classic film… most of them trying to answer one question, what was The Shining even about? Forty years ago, audiences couldn't care less about the film. So… what the hell happened?
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Part Three: Slowly Going Insane
Perfectionist. Visionary. Madman. Kubrick heard all of these and more. But, that didn't stop him from his filmmaking style, his infamous 127-take shot, and his even more notorious neglect and abuse of one cast member...
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Part Two: Kubrick's Crazy Vision
A 3 am telephone call soon changed the history of horror and cinema. But first, we travel back to Manhattan in the 1940s where a deviant boy's fascination with photography was brewing...
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Part One: One Night in an Empty Hotel
On a bleak autumn night, in an abandoned hotel near the Rocky Mountains, the idea came to Stephen King in a dream… Or should I say... a nightmare.