Room 237
Some movies stay with you forever... and ever... and ever.
Overview
A subjective documentary that explores various theories about hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's classic film The Shining. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments.
- Revenue
- $259,765
- Production
- Highland Park Classics
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Cast
Crew
- Director
- Rodney Ascher
- Writers
- Rodney Ascher
- Producers
- Todd Hughes,Tim Kirk,P. David Ebersole
- Composer
- William Hutson,Jonathan Snipes
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Gareth Senior
July 29, 2012
An intruiging documentary. If you've loved & watched "The Shining" many, many times, this doc will still show you things you never noticed before. The premise is that different theories about The Shining are examined. All of them start with an idea triggered by a single shot, but most fall apart as the originator attempts to expand and prove their theory. In the end, most of the theorists reveal themselves to be hilariously lost in the film and their reading of it. Stanley Kubrick always s…
LastCaress1972
August 11, 2013
"At the end of The Shining, he's reduced to a screaming ape, just like in the beginning of 2001 there are screaming apes." - John Fell Ryan Astonishingly, the above statement, as bizarre, irrelevant and as bereft of any further analysis as it is (and I haven't taken it out of context; there really IS no further analysis or conclusion mined from that sentence), is possibly the sanest, most rational sentence uttered in Room 237, a documentary film by Rodney Asher lending a platform to some of t…
j0ng
July 28, 2017
This is a pretentious film with assertions that are way out in left field. The reason I gave it this score is my love for the original movie itself.