What do the girls in The Shining say?

' In the film the two young girls are murdered violently with an axe after their hotel-caretaker father develops cabin fever. They terrify little Danny Torrance when they chant, 'Come and play with us, Danny, forever, and ever, and ever,' in their English accents before the film flashes to their dead and bloody bodies.
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What do the creepy twins from The Shining say?

The iconic scene from the movie sees the scary sisters stood at the end of a hallway saying: "Come and play with us, Danny." But while the film is a terrifying watch, Louise and Lisa say they werre never scared during filming.
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What is the famous line from The Shining?

I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in!
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What do they say in The Shining?

The film has been combed over and debated for decades, but the scene that's endlessly quoted is when Jack Torrance (Nicholson) busts through a bathroom door with an ax and shouts, “Here's Johnny!” No matter how many times you've seen the movie, this intense scene will still get your heart racing.
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What do the twin girls in The Shining represent?

The twins also represent Danny's anticipation of his Mother being murdered. They have jet black hair like Wendy and they wear blue dresses. Wendy wears a blue dress at the start of the film with red stockings and sleeves, which gives her the symbolic appearance of an axe murdered twin.
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Who is the guy in the bear suit in The Shining?

Roger isn't mentioned in the 1980 film, but the character being depicted in the gay liaison who is dressed in a bear costume may be a throwback to this scene, Wendy is the one who witnesses the sexual activity between the two men in the film.
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Who is the woman in Room 237?

Lia Beldam is best known for playing the super sexy babe in the bathtub in room 237 -- whose flesh rots off while in Jack's arms -- in the Stanley Kubrick's 1980 masterpiece "The Shining." Guess what ...
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Why did he say here's Johnny?

Jack Nicholson ad-libbed the line "Here's Johnny!" in imitation of announcer Ed McMahon's famous introduction of Johnny Carson on U.S. network NBC-TV's long-running late night television program The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
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Why is Room 237 haunted in The Shining?

The room was inhabited in the past, by a Lorraine Massey who would usually seduce young bellboys who would visit her room. One time Danny Torrance visited this room after a ball strangely rolled to him from its open doors. Later, he claimed that a "crazy woman" tried to strangle him.
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What does it say on the typewriter in The Shining?

The scene when Jack writes obsessively on the typewriter "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" was re-shot a number of times, but changing the language of the typed copy to Italian, French, Spanish, and German, in order to match the respective dubbed languages.
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What is the most famous quote from a movie?

AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIE QUOTES
  1. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Gone with the Wind (1939) ...
  2. "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." The Godfather (1972) ...
  3. "You don't understand! I coulda had class. ...
  4. "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." The Wizard of Oz (1939) ...
  5. "Here's looking at you, kid."
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What did Danny call his finger in The Shining?

In Kubrick's film, Tony is only shown as imaginary, "his own crooked finger in an eerie, croaking voice". The TV miniseries, also by King, has Tony as a "glowing, flying, transparent teenager", later revealed to be a future version of himself.
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What is redrum backwards?

Redrum Is Murder Spelled Backwards.
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Is The Shining Based on a true story?

The Shining was a fictional tale but the setting was inspired by the true hauntings within Colorado's Stanley Hotel. Stephen King's The Shining book was the basis for Stanley Kubrick's 1980 masterpiece film.
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Are the Grady sisters twins?

While the Burns sisters are identical twins, the Grady sisters weren't supposed to be — they were supposed to be aged 8 and 10. But since the real actresses were twins, it was assumed by most viewers that the fictional girls were twins too.
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What does the ending of The Shining mean?

Stanley Kubrick said, “The ballroom photograph at the very end suggests the reincarnation of Jack.” That means that Jack Torrance is the reincarnation of a guest or someone on staff at the Overlook in 1921.
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What did the bear mean in The Shining?

The bear man appears to be giving felatio to the man on the bed, just as the dog man in the book was carrying out a sexual submission role with his partner. The open patch on the bear man's behind in the film simply adds to the sexual emphasis.
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Why does Johnny go crazy in The Shining?

Jack becomes obsessed enough with the hotel's sordid past that he wants to write a book about it. He makes a long-distance call to the hotel's manager, Stuart Ullmann, and antagonizes him with this knowledge. Eventually, he goes mad thanks to the influence of the hotel's ghosts and attempts to kill Wendy and Danny.
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Who strangled Danny in The Shining?

Lorraine Massey — One of the most violent and frightening ghosts of the hotel. She lures Danny to Room 237 and strangles him.
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What does Jack Nicholson say in The Shining when he breaks down the door?

The most memorable and well-known scene of the entire film happens when Jack is busting through the bathroom door with an ax. Once he clears a big enough hole to stick his head through, Jack delivers the chilling line, “Here's Johnny!” as his terrified wife Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall) looks on.
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How do you do the Kubrick stare?

Give the Kubrick stare a shot. Have your actor tilt their head down slightly and stare forward. This style of shot composition derives its name from director Stanley Kubrick who used the technique in a number of films, including 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Shining (1980).
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What happened to the child actor in The Shining?

Lloyd was interviewed in Making The Shining (1980), filmed by Kubrick's daughter, Vivian Kubrick. Despite his well-received performance in The Shining, Lloyd retired from acting at the age of ten after his appearance as young G. Gordon Liddy in the television film Will: G. Gordon Liddy (1982).
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Why does Abra go into the bathroom?

In the film's last scene, Abra finally tells her mother the truth—that she's been conversing with a ghost—before heading into her bathroom to dispose of another one of the Overlook's insidious ghouls, just as Danny did all those years earlier.
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What is the blood in the elevator in The Shining?

There Will Be Blood

In King's 1977 novel, the elevators of The Overlook Hotel only contain ghostly remnants from a New Year's Eve party, like scattered confetti and streamers. In an attempt to bring life to a structure that houses so much death, Kubrick leaned into more dramatic angles.
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Why does the Overlook Hotel want Danny?

In the book The Shining it's made clear to the readers that the Overlook Hotel wants to possess Danny Torrance so it can use his powerful telepathic power (his 'shine'). It does this by possessing his vulnerable father, Jack Torrance and using him as a puppet to hopefully kill Danny.
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