How do you kick off one of the most hotly contested horror films in history? By giving as little information as possible, that’s how!
Kubrick was a very intelligent guy, and that usually goes hand in hand with being pretty goddamn weird, too. Naturally, when ol’ Stanley adapted Stephen King’s 1977 bestseller, “The Shining”, for Warner Brothers, he decided to do things his way, taking a hard left and discarding a lot of King’s narrative and intent. This also included a landmark, wordless teaser trailer that erupted in a slow-motion torrent of blood, helping galvanize the film’s awesome image in the annals of horror cinema.
Today, we give you THAT trailer, which was possibly the very first thing audiences ever saw in conjunction with what would become one of the most famous fright films ever.
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