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8th Nov 2005

The Shining (1980)

Trivia: The "snowy" maze near the conclusion of the movie consisted of salt and crushed Styrofoam.

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Trivia: There are Chinese characters on the sign for the Chinese drive-through restaurant where the woman on the speaker always says, "And then?" The characters, read "hai you ne." In Mandarin this can be translated as "Is there anything else?" Or, as she says, "And then?"

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8th Nov 2005

The Shining (1980)

Trivia: The injured guest who frightens Wendy Torrance by saying "Great party, isn't it?" was played by film editor Norman Gay.

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8th Nov 2005

The Shining (1980)

Trivia: Stanley Kubrick's daughter, Vivian Kubrick, makes a cameo in the party scene. She wears a black dress and sits on the right side of the sofa closest to the bar.

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Trivia: The film's story came from a rejected live action Beavis and Butthead movie concept in the late 1990s.

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