Stephen King's The Shining - The Dom Reviews

[@Moonbeam143]

Hey, man. Those hedges are trying their best trying to be scary. Leaf them alone.

[@scp--297]

XD

[@TFMark]

I think it's time for you to make like a tree, and get out of here

[@crocodileman94]

jet woodward wooosh

[@NostalgiNorden]

They actually are really scary in the book.

[@1mezion]

Okay I'll admit that's funny😆

[@raena-willowdeveruoix4631]

As someone who listened to this audiobook whilst I took night walks outside HEDGES CAN BE SCARY

[@j.r.cilliangreen4083]

I agree! Those aren't hedges! Any stationary object that moves and tries to eat you is scary

[@stephss]

Yeah, violence against women is a big problem. We wouldn't be worried about hedges, if people were not violent a-holes.

[@TheSimstress]

Thank you!! Those topiaries moving when you’re not looking freaked me OUT!! 🌳

[@late_prince8945]

I haven't seen this adaptation but I read the book and I can tell you hedges were one of the scariest things in the book.

[@velvetrevision]

I remember a book from when I was younger called Lemony Snicket The Unauthorized Autobiography, and there was a photo in it that was of a hedge cut into a man flying. The photo had a caption “let’s not go there anymore”. That photo scared me so much I would cover it with my palm to avoid seeing it. The blank shape of a man flying in the distance slightly camouflaged in until you notice it. Spooky shit.

[@KatarnandKanos]

"The one downside to being part of Channel Awesome" Boy does that date this video.

[@Emrys91]

I know. Its a wounder they even let him put that line in the review given all the shit that came out

[@nursemain3174]

@@Emrys91 what happened?

[@Emrys91]

@@nursemain3174 google/youtube channel not so awesome some pretty bad shit came out about Rob Doug and some highter ups

[@uknownada]

@@Emrys91 Mike Michaud didn't watch any of these videos, lol. Remember when Obscurus Lupa said she wasn't allowed to have a long Patreon ad, but she did it anyways and he didn't notice?

[@Emrys91]

@@uknownada indeed. Im still shocked that CA was allowed to keep going with everything that came out

[@PorgWitch]

Me watching the Kubrick film: ugh they didn't have any of the book in here! Why couldn't they be accurate?! me watching the mini series: oh...

[@Dim4323]

Stephen king: has long has its loyal to my book.

[@gabrieldevoogel6225]

@@Dim4323everyone says that but the miniseries wasn’t that bad

[@Prestidigitoreum]

Dom's clearly never gotten lost in a maze.

[@becuaseimbored3481]

8n75bv5nu7h4vum4fym4vnyv4mutbki5b8 is a masochist and the stabs were just to calm herself and I can see why you think bitlife should be on the search bar in episode and I can see why you think bitlife should be on android phone to do with anything so beautiful ever again I doubt you are reading the same person and if you deal in absolute terms of the lustrous

[@prcervi]

that's only a scary thing when you're little, or got a phobia of being lost.

[@Rock-my2ko]

Becuase Im bored Toni I’m sorry what?

[@patchworkundead4787]

@@becuaseimbored3481 did you post this under the wrong comment or something? I'm very confused.

[@Ocrilat]

@@prcervi ...or claustrophobia.

[@Psychkemia]

I actually found the hedge scene to be the scariest scene in the book... Just the idea of things that you thought were inanimate moving behind you and being in a different position every time you look at them creeped me out.

[@dustyrose192]

.... so weeping angels?

[@ShinyAvalon]

@@dustyrose192 - Weeping Angels before there were Weeping Angels.

[@amandanorden1607]

about the whiskey, "jack Daniel's"= jack and Danny (Daniel) its about their poisonous relationship.

[@tyberostheredwake8098]

More relevantly, just because you have access to better stuff doesn't mean you'll want it.

[@Jake-jp5ov]

not to mention Daniel being Jack's middle name

[@cassondrakrieg7048]

I thought it was suppose to be the whiskey "calling his name" so to speak.

[@treyb57]

Wow..good observation! I hadn't thought of it that way until now..it seemed like this guy was just burying the Jack Daniel's whiskey choice for no good reason lol Also, in addition to what you said, it's also true that Jack is a nickname for the 1st and middle names John Daniel and John Joseph...among some possible other ones ;)

[@theguardian8317]

@LordRadical Exactly. Especially (I think) alcoholics don't usually go for the expensive stuff even if they have money. Quantity over quality.

[@ottobaron6392]

14:53 The Overlook Hotel was destroyed in the book, and in the sequel, "Dr. Sleep" the ending takes place where the hotel used to be. In the film version of Dr. Sleep, since it was a sequel to the Kubrick film, as well as the book, they decided to follow the Kubrick film, and have it take place in the Overlook, which was closed ever since Jack died there, while trying to murder his family.

[@rachelmiller6282]

I think The Dom should do a video on Peter Pan, specifically the 2003 live action film because that was most faithful to the book. Yes technically the book was based on a play which came first, but I think it still counts as a book-to-film adaptation.

[@hauntedmushroomsasmr7716]

Rachel Miller the 2003 version made me so happy! It's the only version in my opinion, that accurately depicts Hook.

[@rachelmiller6282]

It was the one version that really incorporated the actual text into the script, making the most of Barrie's incredible gift for eloquent and inventive language. And yes, Jason Isaacs makes the Disney version seem like a parody of the character as Barrie wrote him.

[@ZNKChannel]

He should do another "Dom Awards Show" like he did with Christmas Carol for Peter.

[@rachelmiller6282]

The 2003 version would win every time. Though Hook did have a very good Smee and Hook as well.

[@Grim_Sister]

Calluna made one. Highly recommended

[@takkycat]

It would be interesting to see your opinion on “Doctor Sleep” (the sequel to “The Shining”)!

[@forestcampbell8962]

Agreed.

[@uscman]

I was surprised with the task Mike Flanagan was given to make a good adaptation to Stephen King’s book and continuation of Kubrick’s 1980s horror classic.

[@10DarkAngel01324]

I hope the Dom does Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children in the future (I saw the film recently and while it's a good movie the changes they made made no sense - and were often completely unnecessary. Y'all know what I'm talking about).

[@Aster_Risk]

Yes! I hope he does a review on that. I have the same thoughts as you.

[@neonninja9975]

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[@sarahwalter7198]

Little Miss Book Addict I thought the book was a great idea but a terrible story with unlikable characters where as the movie fixed all that

[@killmenowprettyprett]

I thought the movie was pretty bad but the book looks good

[@kaycepri2406]

I hope he does, I read the books and when I saw the movie I almost walked out.

[@denniswijker7162]

I remember seeing this mini-series when I was younger, and I found the hedges being quite scary. BUT only up until they started actually moving.

[@ZuShin]

Hedges are scary in the book, when I read the shining in my early teens. They kind of remind me of those evil angels in Dr Who. There is something scary about, when you believe something has moved when your back is turned, and when you look around to check, you realise that something has moved closer, but not quite sure if it was that way before but hadnt noticed it. You dont know if your seeing things, or if something is preying upon you. Its enough to leave you questioning your own sanity and that is scary.

[@carnvora01]

Mr Dom, I would like to appreciate the quality of your reviews and your always valid arguments. Thank you.

[@marvalice3455]

seconds this.

[@fairiesandfauna1445]

I third this

[@cmmosher8035]

Steven Weber (Jack's actor) is actually normally a good actor. He read the audio book for IT and it's one of my favourite audio books.

[@count_bodies_like_sheep9296]

He also read the last story in If It Bleeds

[@heidifedor]

Except you can’t see his face in an audiobook. I watched this and just saw Brian from Wings.

[@SingingSealRiana]

acting and voicacting are related but different skills

[@Dim4323]

Yeah He was the one thing king improved on. You follow his progress and you feel sorry for him

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

The quality of the mid-90s TV CGI was the scariest part of the Shining miniseries.

[@tommydiaz-millan2438]

Honestly, the axe makes it more scarier than a mallet. I know he used a mallet in the book, but it's just 2 silly. Using an axw is better.

[@dimitrakapa4887]

No.its not...King's IS scarier

[@Galvatronover]

@@dimitrakapa4887 listen I like king but the only thing I’ve read the really messed me up was pet semetary and I was more disturbed than scared at first

[@dominiquensouza]

I disagree. Imagine the horror of being beaten multiple times by a loved one? With the ax is one swing and you're dead. Less tense imo

[@theradgegadgie6352]

Agree with most of this, but Jack regaining his senses at the last moment and saving Danny's life before the hotel can destroy them both IS in the book. How did you miss that? He tells Danny he loves him and everything.

[@SunnysFilms]

I thought he had that wrong, but it's been years since I've read it so I thought maybe I was just being dumb and remembering it wrong.

[@mauchkimberly]

thank you! I was thinking, what? Did I seriously misunderstand that ending (and was about to dig through a box of books, to find it, and reread the ending again...and questioned my reading comprehension skills, which I have always considered extremely well developed) Thank you for stopping the madness ( going through those boxes, is definitely madness).

[@squatch1565]

I just finished reading the book about a week or two ago. While he did break out of the Overlook's hold on him for a moment, it took over again after he apologized to Danny and was trying to stop the boiler from exploding. That's where the line "You will remember what was forgotten" comes from.

[@_gremlinboy]

He does apologize to danny but afterwards he smashes his face up and jack dies, leaving only the hotel piloting his body and danny reminds it of the boiler so he and the others can escape while the hotel blows itself up- they do tell everyone that jack died trying to save them from the boiler though

[@LordofFullmetal]

No, he addresses that. Jack regains his senses for a brief moment, tells Danny he loves him - and then the hotel spirit gets angry and forces him to commit suicide via bashing his own face in, so that it can puppet his dead body. From that point, Jack physically cannot come back, because he's dead. The hotel is all that's left at that point. They then lie afterwards and say that Jack died trying to save them, to preserve him as the man he wished he was but could never truly be. Dom's right; you just misunderstood him.

[@grkpektis]

In the Novel Danny doesn't have telekinesis but in the sequel Doctor Sleep the character Abra who has the Shinning uses telekinesis in a very similar way to Carrie maybe Carrie had the Shinning

[@stephenmarco2927]

Maybe it'd be a cool connection

[@Dracinard]

It's pretty likely, all things considered. There's a pretty solid theory that all of King's books take place in the same universe, and that the random psychic kids who are in a lot of his books (it gets kind of ridiculous after a point) all have the Shining. More than that, the common factor between all of them is that they've all had various stressful upbringings, usually from abusive parents. So Carrie, who wins the gold medal in the "abusive parent and terrible childhood" Olympics, having a particularly strong Shining makes a lot of sense.

[@TSDTalks22]

L Edwards I think king himself confirmed that all his books take place in the same universe. The stories that provide the most lore to this universe are The Dark Tower series and IT.

[@Anonymous_P]

@@TSDTalks22 if that is true then ¿what the hell happened after "the mist"? Did the whole world just end and we can assume chronologically that is the last thing to happen in a normal world? Or is the most specifically in another universe? Or maybe somehow the government managed to control it? Now I have a lot of questions.

[@TSDTalks22]

Paula Valeria Rocha Gonzalez *multiverse. My mistake. All of his books take replace within the same multiverse, with several stories taking place within the same universe

[@angelwolfplays6456]

Once I reached the 3/4 mark of the book, there was no stopping. I was about 16 at the time and it was a school night, but school be damned, I read it until 3 am, feeling like I was on a rollercoaster as the book sped towards the climax. The following day I rented Kubrick's film from my local video store. I probably spent half the movie wondering when the boiler was going to be mentioned, and I found Danny talking to his finger to be incredibly stupid. And where are the hedge animals? I remembered the idea being quite terrifying, especially in the way King described Jack slowly becoming aware that they are changing position whenever he looks away. A hedge maze? That's not in the book..... Instead of being similar to the previous evening's rollercoaster, Kubrick's movie felt more like a merry go round. I waited in vain for my favorite moments from the book to make their appearance and in their place I got stuff that was completely made up for the movie. Maybe it's a cinematic masterpiece to some people, but it's barely a shadow of the movie I saw in my head while reading the book. The mini-series, while being somewhat dated and flawed, is far closer to the original rollercoaster ride that I felt when I was 16. It took forever to be released on DVD due to a contract stipulation with Kubrick's estate, but when it finally was, I was one of the first to buy it. I pull it out to watch when I want that rollercoaster feeling again but don't have time to read the novel for the 8th time.

[@matsujonen]

AngelWolfPlays I seen the Kubrick movie before I ever read the book. But I only watched out because I thought it was a comedy because of Shelly Duvall and I had just watched Popeye early that year. I was only about five. But later I read the book and was shocked at how much was changed and that ruined the Kubrick version for me

[@Galvatronover]

@@matsujonen I’m not like that I found the pet semetary adaptation to sanatized with the shining movie I can just watch a different story

[@BigGator5]

"Hedges Aren't Scary!" Tell that to WWII vets who invaded Normandy.

[@tiaopiak]

LOL why i didn't think of that

[@Dominic-Noble]

If you have to involve machine guns to make hedges scary them I'm pretty sure its the machine guns that are scary not the hedges.

[@bainbonic]

Now I really want to see a film with killer hedges, and when somebody comments that its just hedges and they shouldn't be afraid, machine guns peek out of the hedges and begin ripping everyone apart. It'd be a glorious horror-comedy.

[@BigGator5]

Bainbow ...If you start a Kickstarter campaign, I'd not only kick money in, but I support the hell out of it.

[@asalways1504]

Hedges may not be scary, but Burnham Wood scared the Day light out Macbeth when it moved in on him, the weird sisters' prediction might've had something to do with it too...

[@Grim_Sister]

Jack is drinking Jack. It's more like silly dad joke on the Character's name's sake.

[@KamiRecca]

actually, the correct sound to make if grabbed from behind by a half decomposed zombie lady is "Gaboita!", wich according to SWTOR is Rodian for "Aaaargh!"

[@ioanaberbece8137]

Actually, the hedges scene is the one thing that still is in my memory. Those things were scary for me!

[@jenniferschillig3768]

You know, it was the Mad Magazine parody of the Kubrick movie that pointed out a flaw that might have made the entire novel go up in a puff of logic: WHY, in the name of all that's holy, would a mountain hotel in Colorado close for the winter when the ski season's at its height?

[@madamefluffy4788]

To be fair, in regards to the liquor the spirits give Jack in both movie and book; if they're capable of reading his thoughts, they'd probably give him alcohol that he favors (such as, Jack Daniels) instead of the good shit they have on hand. Their intent was to make jack their minion; not impress him with their luxuries.

[@ThAlEdison]

King is directly referencing the performance style of Cab Calloway in the Jazz scene in this mini-series.

[@minerva9843]

Fun fact: The manager of the bar at The Stanley (the hotel the overlook is based on & the one shown in the miniseries) is a whiskey fanatic. The alcohol options there are quite impressive.

[@_BeaverDuck]

Vicki Hale So Lloyd is real?! 😍😍😍

[@rmhartman]

"why did the zombie conducter turn away from the band?" go find some footage of cab calloway

[@fatenabu1]

In some states if a building is old enough, they can avoid certain safety laws and disability laws. It is called grandfathering the building in. Thus if the building was old enough and the boiler was put in before the safety laws were made they could keep it. Also if it is considered a historic property some states allow you to keep said horrible unsafe things in to keep it historically accurate to the building's construction.

[@Renkinjutsushi]

Not quite. You can circumvent certain accessibility requirements, and occasionally you can get around fire exiting requirements, but substantial hazards to heath and safety have to go, regardless of cost or impact. A potentially-explosive boiler would have to be removed, no inspector in his right mind would allow that thing to stay in place. The only way you might be able to get aorund it is if it was literally impossible to remove the thing. Given the space around the boiler in the movie, this is not the case. Now... if they never renovated and no one ever checked on the boiler, then it's conceivable that they were just hiding how dangerous it was. Considering how large a prick Ullman (the manager) was, I could definitely see that being the case. I don't know that Grady (the caretaker) would have gone along for it. Then again, he was basically an indentured servant, and was super bitter about his family losing ownership of the hotel, so maybe he figured it would be better to go along with hiding it than to get canned and have to leave what he considered to be his family's legacy.

[@Ocrilat]

States have safety inspectors, and no property that is dangerous is 'grandfathered in' for unsafe conditions where the public can be harmed. Plus, no insurance company in the world is going to cover a hotel with a faulty boiler like that. It just doesn't make sense. Also...who dumped the boiler after Grady killed his family and himself?

[@Squirreltasticqueen]

@@Ocrilat did it ever establish how long it was between the murder and the outside world finding out? I'd assume that the hotel would have some self preservation and would have sent a distress signal either via radio or something, we dont neccesarily see the full extent of Grady's crazy time other than murder. So I'd venture while he was going around murdering the hotel was sending a SOS so by the time everything was good and dead someone would be on the way or walking in.

[@Ocrilat]

@@Squirreltasticqueen As long as the murders happen more than a couple of hours after the snow melts then the hotel goes kablooie in the prolog. Remember, both the book and film make a big deal about the hotel being almost completely cut off, so either the problem with the boiler is super new...which is dumb, or King didn't think through the issue, which is also dumb but possible. Even without this problem the whole boiler thing is silly. It's so ridiculous that you can't not know it's foreshadowing. I kinda like your idea of a psychic, almost mind-controlling hotel better than what's in the book...it's certainly imaginative! It's sort of like the mirror-thing in Oculus. I like that too because my theory is the hotel isn't haunted at all, but an evil entity that feeds off of negative emotions...also like in Oculus.

[@Squirreltasticqueen]

@@Ocrilat did you ever watch duesdaecons review of Oculus? I love the idea that the mirror is like a Lovecraft elderitch being. Even without that thinking the movie is so good and I love the design of the mirror.

[@LordofFullmetal]

I don't think they rebuild the Overlook in the books, but in the sequel to The Shining (yes, King wrote a sequel) it IS made clear that the land is still evil even without the hotel. It's the land specifically that's evil, not the hotel. Danny even goes back to that very spot (which is now a campground) to face off a new threat.

[@calihunt24]

"Christine" (both the book and movie) had a "The end, or is it?" Ending.

[@DanSmith-ew9ul]

That horror cliche would actually work well in that case though. Or at least I think so

[@KoiPuff]

8:37, this is 100% something I would do if I thought no one was looking.

[@ambds1975]

IDK, I first read that book when I was about 11, and those hedges scared the snot out of me in a weeping angel kind of way. I had cold sweat nightmares about those hedges.

[@MarquisSmith]

You should do "It". The book, though flawed, is one of King's best. The mini-series is ripe for a ripping. Also, I really want to see your reaction to one particular scene in the sewers. Anyone who has read the book will know the one I mean. It's a jaw-hitting-floor moment.

[@alicedarhk9790]

SalfordianBlue Oh Beverly....Nostalgia Critic said it best

[@AlwaysM0ndayy]

At that rate he should do Carrie too. Not a whole lot changed from what I remember though, aside from her being chubbier, the way people died, and the pregnancy subplot.

[@MarquisSmith]

"Not a whole lot changed from what I remember" From memory, a whole chunk of the ending was changed. Carries rampage pretty much tore apart the town in the book, rather than just the prom hall... although I admit it's been some time since I read the novel or watched the movie. It's actually one of my least favourite King novels, although it's far from bad. My Wife hates them all, despite having never read one. The reason? They take up so much room! She can't move without tripping over a Shining or Misery.

[@neonninja9975]

I would love Dom to cover "It", I hate that scene in the book with a passion, not for prudish reasons, but because I literally think it undermines the entire book and their friendship, and I`d invested in these kids, and it`s bad enough there`s only one female character, but to reduce her to nothing more than a....um....a plot device (don`t want to put spoilers you can imagine the word I really want to say hahahaha). I hated the fact the father is abusive but then he kind of has a point because of this scene, and her friends have let her down and have just as much to do with her being in an abusive relationship as an adult if this is how she thinks anything with a penis treats a woman. Imho, I know what King was aiming for but wow I think he failed.... Plus the mini series has some genuinely awesome moments, Tim Curry is hilarious and scary in equal measures, and the kids are great though the adults are awful. Carrie would be amazing too, I loved both the book and the original film, and the remake is awful but I`d still love to see Dom`s take on it :D

[@MarquisSmith]

It's hard to discuss without spoilers, but I'll give it a shot (I'd still avoid reading this bit Dom, on the off chance you haven't read the book). I also understand what he was aiming for. The bonds of childhood had held them together, but in confronting the terror in the sewers, they had grown up. The act in question is seen as our right of passage into adulthood in which boys become men, and girls women. Their innocence was lost, figuratively and literally But the handling was just.... wrong. And icky, to say the least.

[@fireyhto808]

the only thing you got wrong was King cared about the sets a little. He was insistent that it be filmed at the Stanley Hotel in Colorado because that was where he got the inspiration for the book.

[@danguillou713]

In your review of the other version you said something like ”I’m aware that King was working through his own alcoholism issues vicariously, so don’t tell me about that” and … kinda left it at that. So let’s talk some more about that! One of my favorite techniques is the unreliable narrator. (Films like Rashomon and The Usual Suspects or books like Lolita , High Fidelity and Fight Club, as well as their adaptations, where the central premise of the story is that the narrator is full of shit.) But there is an interesting sub cathegory or literary cousin, where the author/narrator is completely on the level, they just happen to be deeply unreliable people. Anyone remember ”Not Without My Daughter”? As far as I can tell, the author is trying to tell a completely straight black-and-white tragical adventure. But the autobiographical narrator is so obviously intolerant, prejudiced and looking for faults that the culture shock in her marriage comes across as a lot more nuanced than probably intended. I’m pretty sure anything vaguely autobiographical by Erika Mitchell would have similar problems. Okay, back to The Shining. According to King he was actively abusing alcohol and painkillers while writing the book. As well as being an abusive father and husband. However: he was 100% in denial on all of this! Or so he says. At the same time, book Jack Torrance is one of the most blatant self insert author avatars in all of Kings books. For King Jack Torrance is the empathic point of view. The intent is a tragedy about a flawed but essentially decent man destroyed by unlucky circumstances and malevolent external forces. In the actual book, rather than the one King thought he wrote, the protagonist is Danny, and Jack is increasingly creepy and menacing from early on. It’s cool and fascinating and sad that King apparently wrote so mercilessly honest about himself, whithout beeing conciously aware of it. Kubrick and Nicholson obviously picked up on the creepy and menacing bit. It reminds me of your reaction to High Fidelity actually. The author thinks his protagonist is deeply flawed but still essentially decent and sympathetic. Dominic reads the book and goes ”This person is a complete garbage person, swinging back and forth between utter wanker and actual monster! I don’t want him to get redemption and happy ever after, I just want him to eat shit and die.” So film Jack is a creepazoid without self awareness who’s obviously lying to himself and everyone around him about his problems. The dramatic suspense of his face-heel-turn is the anticipation. We’ve seen it coming from scene one, but it takes half the movie for the people in the movie to catch up. It’s a giant ”No you idiot, don’t go down alone in the basement!” device. Or bomb-under-the-table. You know. Given that, it makes sense that King would hate one of the best adaptations of his work as well as one of the best horror movies ever made. The movie says that he, personally, was never the nice but troubled man he thought he was, but rather a monster all along. It takes his very private and poignant redemption arc and throws it contemptously down the toilet. I can only imagine how much that must have hurt to watch. Incidentially, I think that he has reevaluated Kubricks work, at least somewhat, in later interviews. Anyway, thanks for a fun and interesting video, as usual. Ps I know that writing this so far after the release is probably not going to be read by anyone, but it lets me put my thoughts in order, and it still helps with the dreaded algorithms, right? Right.

[@SecretAgentNein]

Hi! A year later and here I am reading this. Just thought I'd let you know that I deeply enjoyed reading your comment and appreciate you providing it!

[@danguillou713]

@@SecretAgentNein Cool. Thanks! :-)

[@CL-go2ji]

I read it. I liked it. Thank you.

[@sarahr8311]

That's really insightful. Interestingly, I did think book Jack was... well he wasn't the good guy, but he was sort of sympathetic, in a way. I ended up getting a little angry at him at times for not resisting the hotel, for slipping into believing Danny and Wendy needed to be hurt. Which oddly enough parallels some of my feelings about family members with substance use issues. I'm sympathetic, but also frustrated with them.

[@madsstokes]

*chefs kiss*

[@Cai-Jo]

This is the mini-series I point most people to when arguing that putting book loyalty above everything else can make an adaptation nearly unwatchable. Trust me, you don't want to sit through 10-hour films that fixate on boring details.

[@rhaenyralikesyoutube6289]

Danny having telekinesis is a form of shining, and is a callback to Carrie. In the Dark Tower series, people are hunted down who can shine, because they can break the beams that hold up the Tower itself.

[@Chronos341]

14:04 This is a bit Spoilery but in the sequel book "Dr. Sleep" an adult Danny is trying to save a little girl from a group of psychic vampires ( it's weird and too long to explain) and ends up back at the spot where the Overlook stood. Once he defeats them there's a similar scene where Danny looks up and sees the ghost of his father, sober, smiling, and proud before vanishing. It's quite touching actually.

[@shame3857]

Thanx Dom. Nothing makes me as happy as seeing another awesome video from you.

[@MaximusR93]

I felt a lot of tension while reading the book when the hedges were moving, very suspenseful

[@theradgegadgie6352]

15:10. Can confirm that the Overlook was never rebuilt in King's bookverse, as by the time of Doctor Sleep (the sequel to The Shining set when Danny was around forty) the site was an RV park.

[@rebecastoesser7529]

OK I feel I must be a bit more specific. 😹 Do Stephen Kings it!

[@eadlynjune]

Rebeca Stoesser The Dom has blessed your post! The review shall come! Ring the bells children, frolick with joy!

[@rebecastoesser7529]

awh, thanks! That's awesome. Can't wait to watch. Your guys channel is really great. I re-watch yall's videos. much love

[@tgarnett25]

I’ve worked in building maintenance for thirty years. If boiler pressure goes unregulated, then what’s going to happen is a hot water pipe will burst, and you’re going to have an office or offices soaked in water. I know of no way possible for a boiler to detonate, and destroy the building as King portrayed in The Shining.

[@coreyhand3138]

I’ve read a lot of Stephen King books- I actually love Stephen King. That being said, a lot of his stuff is DEFINITELY scarier in book form than in film form. Sometimes when I’m reading a book, I think how something would look in a movie and, even in my head, it looks ridiculous. Also, I just want to add that I watched this mini series a while ago, but your opening bit where “Stephen” was being interviewed was both hilarious AND accurate.

[@howpeachy258]

the beginning video looked like the start to a youtuber apology

[@l0stndamned]

I will have to write a story where a hedge is genuinely scary. I think the "or is it" ending might be a reference to a sequel story King wrote many years later.

[@konstancemakjaveli]

in "Dr. Sleep", the sequel to "tHe shining" the hotel isnt rebuilt, but the final battle scene happens in its location where it used to be.

[@fizzplease6742]

Dom, I'm so glad I found your channel. You are thoroughly entertaining. Your back-catalogue was one of the best binge-watch experiences I've had.

[@Kabayoth]

It's the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO. About 40 minutes from where I live. The place is old, creepy, magnificent, and they play up King's references to the Overlook whenever they can. My advice, stay in an AirBnB. Or in one of the other resorts. Estes Park is a lovely spot, but The Stanley Hotel is... put it to you this way: I'd put you and Caluna up for free, meals included, rain or shine, in any season rather than have you stay there. Besides, what you two are paying in rent in California, you could buy a very nice spread up in Red Feather.

[@KarstensCreationsKC]

"HEDGES ARE NOT SCARY!" Oh, you are so wrong my friend... In the book they were absolutely terrifying. Because the problem with the TV series adaption was that they actually showed the Hedge animals moving around with cartoonish CGI... The way it would have worked perfectly was that we only hear the rustling of the bushes as they move off camera, maybe with some added snarls of animal sounds... But when Danny turns around they're just suddenly they're behind him... When he turns back around again after concentrating their all back where they originally were... The only time we see them actually moving would be at the climax when they are escaping the hotel and they should have been shown mostly in the dark with glowing eyes until they are set on fire when they turn back into stiff and unmoving hedge animals that simply burn quickly and disappear with a howl noise... I personally think that would have worked much better than what they tried to show in the TV mini-series... Because in the book they were actually really damn scary....

[@_gremlinboy]

Exactly! Also they should've toned them darker the lime green color definitely didn't help

[@LordofFullmetal]

I disagree. I don't think they're scary in the book either. But then, I've also seen that concept before, done way better.

[@jenniferschillig3768]

Shades of the Weeping Angels...

[@oldironsides4107]

That’s a less shitty idea than the miniseries.

[@Eshajori]

It's not the hedges that are scary. It's the concept of something we know to be inanimate defying our senses by moving swiftly and silently when we're not looking. The fact that they're hedges adds to the unnerving sensation _because_ they're not intimidating. Most fear is all about a lack of knowledge. The more _familiar_ something is, the stranger it feels when our understanding of it is contradicted. That's why Uncanny Valley works so well - it's so close to what we perceive as real, but something is... off. Hedges can be scary, but it's not because they're hedges. The thought of a moving hedge-monster isn't scary. What's scary is the implications that come with seeing the impossible: large, immobile objects changing places the second you turn your head. Let me put it this way: Say you were sitting alone at your computer at 4am, you turn around to discover a wooden chair from another room is placed directly behind you, facing you. You never heard a sound, your door is closed, you didn't move it, no one else could have. Would that creep you out? You'd get the same disturbing sensation you feel when you inexplicably think you're being watched. But why? Chairs aren't scary. They're a place for butts. It isn't the chair that's creeping you out, it's the implication of it being there.

[@dimitrakapa4887]

@@PungiFungi no .hé didnt

[@chrisbinnie6776]

In Carrie he did a 'The End?' ending where they show a letter explaining there is a another TK child

[@thedopdeity]

"The wasps came back and that's weird and unfortunate." Some people would have much stronger verbiage for seeing an event like that.

[@eclipsedbadger]

so I just got home from a really ugly day at Buenos Aires...and I get a new Dom video? I didn't know it was my birthday! ;)

[@kravchenkoolga8714]

"the end... or is it?" pet sematary. you're welcome

[@SavageMinnow]

Kravchenko Olga I kinda feel like they always come back had a “...or is it?” at the end too, but I could be wrong

[@andrewlivingston1590]

And The Stand. (And Christine and The Sun Dog--I think.) King is not known for stellar endings.

[@oliviamckay3999]

And IT it's not stated in the book but King did use other novels to reavel that Pennywise wasn't actually dead

[@Wednesdaywoe1975]

"Darling," it said.

[@justinperry2598]

Also Cell. That ending still fucks me up.

[@apertureemployee215]

As for King's books not having sort of plot twists like the series (15:00). I'm pretty sure Christine at least did, implying the car had come back to life after its destruction and was going to maybe come for revenge at some point

[@truefanforum3273]

My theory on the picture at the end of the Kubrik version is to show that Jack had been absorbed by the hotel. He, like Grady, Grady's family, and everyone else who died at the Overlook have become part of it, adding their souls to the hive-mind. And by being added to the hotel, they have increased its power. That's my take on it anyway.

[@ShinyAvalon]

Hedges COULD be scary if they were handled right-not shown clearly. I mean, they already act like Weeping Angels at first, and at the climax when they're running around freely it's freaking NIGHT...perfect for hiding them in shadow, and making sure you don't get a good look at them. It wouldn't be easy, but it could be done.

[@Ocrilat]

Stephen King - 'I hate the Kubrick movie because it wasn't faithful to my glorious book!' *gets chance to remake The Shining...changes a bunch of stuff from the book*

[@OptimusPhillip]

I can think of a couple examples of King using the "The End?" trope. For example, Christine ended with the car getting cubed, seemingly putting it out of commission, but in the epilogue it's stated that a character with a similar name to the one surviving bully was killed in a freak car accident, leaving the narrator concerned that Christine is still alive and possibly out to get him. I've also heard that Carrie ended with a reference to another girl with the same powers, but I've never read that book myself.

[@levischorpioen]

Someone please tell Stephen King that what works in a novel doesn't always work on screen.

[@pompe221]

15:08 He's done those kind of endings before but I think they were more common in his earlier stuff -- Carrie, Christine, and to a certain extent Firestarter.

[@r.babylon2885]

The way he says "no" as Stephen King

[@shireenfaisal4950]

I just finished a horrible debate society meeting. your videos always relax me!

[@abbeyBominable123]

Hi! Can u please make a lost in adaptation episode on Memoirs of a Geisha? I just read the book and watched the movie. They are both amazing in their own way. I hope you will make my wish come true... someday...

[@PetalsAndPlague]

Abbey Bominable completely agree!

[@neonninja9975]

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[@LaydiNite]

They are both horridly inaccurate, but I'd like to see The Dom's take on them as well.

[@abbeyBominable123]

LaydiNite not horridly innacurate, but still... innacurate in some aspects. But they are both really enjoyable, nonetheless

[@LaydiNite]

Memoirs of a Geisha got several aspects of the life and training Geisha go through very wrong. I have the biography of the woman it was loosely based on, and from what I have heard, she and other geisha have very negative feelings toward Memoirs because they feel it to be insulting to their craft. Particularly the aspect of geisha selling their virginity. It felt like it confused geisha with oiran.

[@Coal_minerals]

7:26 yes that is how you yell no matter who grabs you from behind do ask how I know that

[@feezlfuzzl564]

"Everyone knows that old cars end up costing you more in the long run." Um, they actually don't, especially if you factor in payments and interest on the loan for a newer car. And depending on how old it is, older cars cost far less to buy parts for, and are much easier to work on, than newer cars. If you have the money upfront, it is much cheaper to buy an older car and take it to the mechanic right away to give it the works. And if you're worried about maintenance fees down the road, just save all the money that would have been your car payment every month! It will actually be less in the long run. My 1989 Nissan Maxima very rarely requires repair, in spite of my grandfather's fears that it will "nickle and dime you to death."

[@LordofFullmetal]

Speaking as someone who literally grew up in this situation - someone who's poor enough that they're only looking for super cheap cars usually doesn't HAVE the money upfront though. That's why they're only looking at super cheap cars. You're making an assumption that they have a certain amount of money to deal with mechanical problems that a lot of people in that situation would not have.

[@cooperminion825]

Is anyone else here after his IT video where Dom finally admits that hedges are scary?

[@PoppinRandomBubbles]

I watched this when I was younger, and I never knew it was a mini series. I thought it was a movie...

[@RachaelTheFirboldDruid]

Im not gonna lie... "decaying naked zombie lady" sounds like a funny phrase.

[@jdoefer]

I think the Dom has unrealistic health and safety expectations related to grandfathered boiler systems in the US. They only replace them when the cost of operating out-ways the cost of replacing and only then.

[@theradgegadgie6352]

By the way, the ending of this miniseries, with the hotel being rebuilt, is DEFINITELY non-canon since the publication of Doctor Sleep, where it's revealed that it was never rebuilt and was turned into a picnic and RV park.

[@DORMY7teacup]

The "plenty of other thing to be snide about" comment regarding Chanel Awesome honestly aged pretty well.

[@vampman87]

There is a sequel to the Shining book, Doctor Sleep, where an adult Danny fights a cult that wants to use a little girl with Shining powers for their own means. The book's climax has Danny and the cult's leader fighting on the site of the Overlook Hotel, which is just apile of ash and gravel by this time.

[@dvanbenn123]

the only "or is it..." ending for a king book that I can think of is "Needful Things"

[@DCreed013]

Yet another book to adaptation the Dom could consider doing, as there is a Needful Things movie. It's been a really long time since I've read the book or watched the movie, but I recall liking the book and not hating the movie. Again, it's probably been 6+ years since I did either, so I'm not a reliable source for the movie's accuracy.

[@asfdhahhahaha]

it's been aaaages since i read the book, but why do i remember that jack did came to his senses and fought off the ghost right before his death?

[@grkpektis]

My theory about the photo in the original movie is that Jack has the Shinning (google there's a lot of proof) and it made him immortal o he always worked at the hotel. Also the ghosts in the movie are not ghosts it's all Jack creating the ghosts with his powers

[@sarahwalter7198]

Oh man finally!!! I've waited so long for you to do this!!!

[@jennyb4543]

I love these! I have some issues reading, so I watch a lot of movies based on books. I know I'm missing a lot of context, so these reviews and adaptation videos are phenomenal for me! I'm not much of a horror fan but am curious of Stephen King's works. Mostly I'd love to see Agatha Christie review/adaptation videos. (I'm new to this channel so maybe you've already done some and I just have to go digging.)

[@Galvatronover]

Then you should just listen to the audiobook

[@JoelBrewton]

I haven’t read all of King’s books either, but in terms of the “OR IS IT THE END?” ending cliche; the ending of “Carrie” features an excerpt from a letter in which a woman reveals that she has witnessed her daughter moving marbles around the floor with her mind.

[@Graycata]

If my normal shaped hedges came to life and started to move around. I would fine that kind of freaky

[@CelticGuardian7]

At least hedges are scarier than singing "I'm a Little Teapot," which Steven King apparently thought would absolutely terrify everyone, if Storm of the Century is anything to go by. -_-;

[@Cinedragon]

Jack Torrance isn't gone forever, he does make a rather nice appearance in the sequel Doctor Sleep.

[@Ocrilat]

So even if the Hotel wins, it explodes and is destroyed because of the criminally defective boiler. Man, I never realized how stupid the Hotel was.

[@sunflowerlove60]

How about an episode on Interview with the Vampire?

[@chloeeastwood6696]

Loved the video. Kept thinking the music was going to be “Turkey in the Straw” and then it wasn’t lol.

[@changvasejarik62]

Hey the dom do you think you'll eventually review Carrie in lost in adaptation?

[@LucyLioness100]

Which one? The ‘76 version that is the best, the ‘02 TV movie that had slightly more loyalty to elements of the book or the 2013 movie that ripped of De Palma’s superior movie?

[@thomaswilliams2273]

I haven't seen this version of the movie, but "Fiddler On the Roof" had Tevya thinking out loud about his response while the person he was talking to was held in a freeze frame, so perhaps asides of memory can be also in movies and plays.

[@swanpride]

Everything can be scary....including hedges. Especially hedges. I mean, you never knew what might behind them. This alone can make them scary.

[@breengreg]

WOW - when did Elliot Gould go from, cool 70's anti-hero to Dad from friends...?

[@atlantahunter4401]

“The end. Or is it!” Is actually exactly how Christine ends.

[@DryBones271]

I don't know where the music at the very end it originally from, but they used it for "The Gentlemen" in Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

[@williamozier918]

My theory is that the Overlook Hotel was infested with a Boggart (from the Harry Potterverse).

[@hannahfullert]

In one of King's other books, Desperation I think, they do reveal that they rebuilt the Overlook. I think it came out at the same time as this movie, so it was probably a reference to that.

[@blueblue930]

Hey Dom, I just wondered something. Are you going to do a review of IT before the movie comes out? (and hey, maybe some more of his books as well ;) ) Keep up the good work, I always enjoy your videos :)

[@Grim_Sister]

Said it was in the length of the bible. Also, most likely he's waiting for all copyright bots to relax for a bit. Also, I think he posted a schedule somewhere.

[@electrofonickitty823]

I remember this series, then again I was 17 years old when it came out, and an extra in the ending. My sister and I were not really sure what we were doing and why there was a graduation scene.

[@SwiftNoteXx]

Danse Macabre was perfect for this

[@alanpennie8013]

It particularly suits mobile hedges.

[@Grizabeebles]

About the "redemption" ending -- In my copy of "On Writing" by Steven King, he goes into a bit of an explanation why, to him, Jack's possession in The Shining was a subconscious realization about King's own struggle with alcoholism. I believe he even spells out how he'd rewrite the ending given his "connection" to Jack and his ongoing recovery. _Which is _*_exactly_*_ how the miniseries ends._ I'll have to reread "On Writing" to be sure though.