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Shaping The Shining

Christopher Berberian

WARNING:

The following content may disturb some viewers.

From Room 237 in the desolate Overlook Hotel, I'm Chris Berberian, and this is Shaping The Shining.

This podcast seeks to uncover the secrets and idiosyncrasies behind Stephen King's tale, and more notoriously, Stanley Kubrick's cinematic adaptation—a film that haunted the collective psyches of horror fans and mainstream audiences from the 1980s to today.

At your own risk, join us as we dive into the darkness inside Room 237 and explore the question... what drives our madness?

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  • S1 · E4
    Apr 23, 2020 · 12 min

    Part Four: A Never-Ending Nightmare

    Today, hundreds of theories and dozens of documentaries have tackled the classic film… most of them trying to answer one question, what was The Shining even about? Forty years ago, audiences couldn't care less about the film. So… what the hell happened?

  • S1 · E3
    Apr 23, 2020 · 13 min

    Part Three: Slowly Going Insane

    Perfectionist. Visionary. Madman. Kubrick heard all of these and more. But, that didn't stop him from his filmmaking style, his infamous 127-take shot, and his even more notorious neglect and abuse of one cast member...

  • S1 · E2
    Apr 23, 2020 · 8 min

    Part Two: Kubrick's Crazy Vision

    A 3 am telephone call soon changed the history of horror and cinema. But first, we travel back to Manhattan in the 1940s where a deviant boy's fascination with photography was brewing...

  • S1 · E1
    Apr 5, 2018 · 13 min

    Part One: One Night in an Empty Hotel

    On a bleak autumn night, in an abandoned hotel near the Rocky Mountains, the idea came to Stephen King in a dream… Or should I say... a nightmare.

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