View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'

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.

A look at the visual design of the film The Shining (1980).

A couple moves into a forgotten ghost town with big plans to restore it, but soon discovers the town has an evil secret.

Starring Cortney Palm, Brian Patrick Butler and directed by Anthony Leone. A man wakes from a concussion to find himself trapped in a cargo elevator, and as his time in isolation grows, so too does his paranoia.

A novelist ends up stuck in the hotel that he works at during the pandemic.

Florence Walker is an aspiring actress who's barely getting any auditions. After finding a sketchy casting call for a horror movie, she takes the opportunity in her desperation, but nothing is how it seems. On top of that, she experiences the horrors of anxiety and mental illness in this situation of complete presssure.

It’s hard for a boy not to get excited when his dad gets a new job as Senior Chief Night Manager at Charbay’s Chicken World and Restaurant Resort, the world’s largest fast-food entertainment complex in North America. But things quickly get very, very clucked.

A writer and his family go to a remote island to inspire his writing. To really get his juices flowing he decides to stay in a hotel where a writer previously killed his entire family.

Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help - and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.