13 Terrifying Unlucky Facts About "The Shining"

So if you DON’T want to be legitimately freaked out… avoid this movie.

Like, at all costs.

The Shining was one of the scariest movies ever made. Jack Nicholson made the film so iconic… The “Here’s Johnny line.” The door. The terrified family. The snow maze.

Man, I feel shivers everywhere… 

But turns out there are a bunch of stuff that you should know about the movie… if you dare.

1. The director didn’t even look at the script written by Stephen King… the original author of the book.

According to one of Kubrick’s biographers, David Hughes, King wrote an entire draft of a screenplay but Kubrick didn’t even read it. Kubrick worked with The Shadow Knows author Diane Johnson instead.

2. Depending on where you saw the movie, the iconic sentence “All work and no play make Jack a dull boy” changed.

In German versions, the phrase translates to: “Don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” Spanish-speakers saw: “Although one will rise early, it won’t dawn sooner.” And Italians saw: “He who wakes up early meets a golden day.”

3. In the book, the spooky stuff in the movie takes place in room 217 NOT Room 237 because the owners of the real hotel didn’t want to scare away the customers.

The management at The Timberline Lodge, asked that the movie use Room 237 because there is no Room 237. “Curiously and somewhat ironically, room #217 is requested more often than any other room at Timberline.”

4. Stephen King was allegedly not a big fan of the movie adaptation of his book. He didn’t think Jack Nicholson was right either because audiences already thought of him as crazy and he felt that Jack couldn’t portray a decent into madness.

He told Playboy in 1983, “I’d admired Kubrick for a long time and had great expectations for the project, but I was deeply disappointed in the end result. Parts of the film are chilling, charged with a relentlessly claustrophobic terror, but others fell flat.”