I'm pretty sure it's not to unsettle you, I'm pretty sure it's to make you a participant in the movie. Jack Torrance knows we are watching, because we are the "ghosts" of the Overlook. Roused to enjoy another show of violence and death.

Oh how i want to delv into the Kabalist aspests of this movie .but : im not esposed to talk about it.....😮 You can do it.

Because I’m cute.

Jack is a latent shiner so maybe he senses that we are there but cannot physically see us so his gaze moves on and he thinks nothing of it. It's normal to him. Maybe it's a que to let us know something is going on.

Kubrick was a genius, and Nicholson is a great actor. And I did notice one or two of these.

Dopo 1 anno dall mio commento avrei una teoria. Come sappiamo jack vede i vantasmi delll hotel, e se quando guarda in camera in realta, siamo noi i fantasmi? Come hai detto anche tu, questo tipo di inquadratura serve anche a far entrare lo spettatore nell racconto dell film, ebbene e se kubrick lo avrebbe utilizzato in questa maniera, rendendo gli spettatori parte dell overlock hotel come fantasmi?

it cannot be accidental, impossible, because kubrick shot the door scene when nicholson looks down the camera over 70 times. Or it can be accidental and the reason why Nicholson wasn't nominated for the academy award the next year. we will never know really but i am inclined with accidental. Edit: I mean that the academy didn't understand it that way, so i am inclined that the academy skipped nicholson a nomination. thinking it was not "professional".

I love how this video looks. It is so clear and with the narration it is also so convincing and persuasive.

Jack Torrence is looking at the ghosts in the Overlook Hotel who are manipulating his behavior. His glance seeks their approval. As if he's saying, "How am I doing? Do you like it? Is this what you want?" This subversively implies that "The Shining" is told from the ghosts' point of view. Which means: The audience watching the movie ... We're the ghosts.

Hehehe he new he was in simulation :)

I noticed it when I saw it in 1980. It was I thought a way of making us there, in the Overlook with them as he slowly lost his mind or became possessed. We were included either as voyeurs or ghosts of the hotel. I thought it was moments of genius, as I said to my BFF at the time I saw it with " look Jack, he's looking at us like we're there!" Brilliant move, breaking the Forth Wall in the right way! Will always be my one of my top 5 usually #1 then I love The Excorcist, Alien, Psycho, A Clockwork Orange, Texas Chainsaw Massacre '74, Frankenstein, Halloween, Possession, and The Birds and too many more to name, but The Shining will be a classic forever! ❤

I think you're on to something here. In the pantry scene, Kubrick wants to show the viewer that Jack is lying to knive Wendy. The rest of the time Jack is kniving his son, who is us. Remember that Steven King's novel has Jack Sexually abusing his son, whom we are.

Non ci sono Fantasmi nell'Hoverlock Hotel. Quello che ha fatto Kubrick non mi interessa. King ha plasmato l'Hotel prendendo spunto da Hill House di Shirley Jackson, dove la casa è un "essere vivente" il quale, una volta che ha puntato la nuova vittima la fa sua, divorandola. Le manifestazioni, nel libro sono le estensioni dell'Hotel stesso. Jack è distratto dal cercare di prendere Danny e non si ricorda della caldaia, quindi per estensione (appunto) l'Hotel "non si ricorda" dalla caldaia, e viceversa.

I’ve seen this film umpteen times. And it has always scared me. After watching your video, Jack looks even more unhinged. Gonna have to watch the film again.

In a movie with three leads, we become the fourth. He sees us, like he sees the ghosts. So creepy and so subtle.

Am I the only alcoholic who notices that he only begins looking to the camera AFTER he takes -more specifically drinks- that drink. Now he invited the spirit back in. By drinking spirits He has a demon. Danny does too. Danny also has a gift. Or is there any separation? And I haven’t seen the sequel yet I own it. But I bet ….

Honestly, it's just Jack Nicholson looking at the camera by accident several times in what was a long, painful shoot for everyone. Not everything is a secret message. I mean this must be the most overanalyzed film of all time. I love The Shining. I think Kubrick and Lynch are the two single most genius film makers of all time. But when people are trying to make an accidents into plot relevant details... or when they say the film is about the moonlanding, etc... you need to chill. Trust me, if Kubrick wanted Jack to look down the camera, he wouldn't try to hide it. If he thought that would add something, he wouldn't let 90% of people miss it. He's not that kind of filmmaker. He is much more brave than that. That's literally his staple is how ballsy he is. It's just not his style and everything in this video tries to force a conclusion based on things that don't actually support it. All the evidence is completely misapprehended.

Had no clue that Sellers had based Dr. Strangelove's accent on the famed New York photographer Weege! As a fan of both men's inimitable work, I am ecstatic to learn these two had such a fateful encounter.

I never picked up on this before. It's fascinating. And I pretty much came to the same conclusion as you did, that it's the ghosts Jack is glancing at. It kind of makes perfect sense for the final scene to be zooming in on Jack looking directly at us. Like, the more he's pulled into the ghost's relm that's driving him insane the more he glances at the camera. So it ends with Jack fully claimed by the hotel and now perpetually staring into it.

I think he looks at the camera cuz he doesn't like disgusting gays that use their time to make stupid videos for KZbin.

6:56. He was finishing the sets in 1980?? The movie came out that summer.

Paul Joyce, the guy interviewing Spielberg here, actually directed the classic 1981 Doctor Who serial “Warrior’s Gate”.

Why don't you go ask him yourself!

All I know is it and THEY worked to perfect effect.👍

People have mentioned it. It’s an interesting thing to take note of

once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, and three times is a pattern.

I think they were meant to be subliminal adding, at a subconscious level, to the uneasiness of the film.

I one of my favorite hobbies is analyzing this film and of all my years of research I’ve never heard of this great work

This has been noticed before, I think it was in a documentary, could of been an extensive KZbin video.

Jack has the shining

I just watched the shining for the first time a couple days ago and I noticed this during the movie and it bugged me. I’m glad I found a video on this because I felt alone on it. I personally think he looks at the camera at the beginning of the movie to tell the audience that he knows what he’s going to do to his family. If he has the shining abilities then he probably saw the outcome a long time ago before he even got to the hotel and that’s why he was drinking to dull the visions. His looks throughout the movie are to tell the audience he knows what he’s about to do but as it progresses and things aren’t going the way he planned he’s looking at the camera to show his anger and frustration. Then at the end when he’s looking at the camera it’s more of him being exposed on his intentions and panicking because he realizes his wife and son are getting away.

Now i want posters made of some of those frames.

I think you're making too much of this. Doesn't mean anything. Now, would you please stop staring at me.

OKAY! This is my favorite film and I knew about the eye-glance after he tells Wendy off and storms out of their room. The ending though... where he's looking for Danny, we know it isn't subjective viewing because Danny is not meant to be on the other side of the camera so it leaves us (the viewer) to think he's after US. Great work with all the still-shots!

This movie along with Rosemary's Baby are literally masterpieces made by Satan worshippers.

Bravo! How does this stand with 'The Wendy Theory?"

That's actually terrifying, most of us must have picked up on it subconsciously on at least one occasion

That's not weird, that's called directing.

Better check Jack’s other films…

I always thought he’s looking “through” the camera passively but interesting observation and take.

You are 40 years late with this my friend.

Most boring film I have ever seen

Load of pish

It's all done intentionally. Jack is the main character

It would also be strange if a character never looked in a particular direction because the camera is there

When funny games rewinded I took it out the dvd player and returned it lol

it's astonishing how many layers and perspectives and details and interpretations there are in this film, every few years i think i'm done with it, and i keep coming back and finding more and more profound things

Really good video. My feeling was what you got to at the end: Who is it Jack is looking at? Who is he seeing in that moment?

The screen is the monolith

So, are we, the audience, a ghost in the Overlook?