Room 237

Starring: Blakemore, Bill and Cocks, Geoffrey

Product Description

After the box office failure of Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick decided to embark on a project that might have more commercial appeal. The Shining, Stephen King's biggest critical and commercial success yet, seemed like a perfect vehicle. After an arduous production, Kubrick's film received a wide release in the summer of 1980; the reviews were mixed, but the box office, after a slow start, eventually picked up. End of story? Hardly. In the 30 years since the film's release, a considerable cult of Shining devotees has emerged, fans who claim to have decoded the film's secret messages addressing everything from the genocide of Native Americans to a range of government conspiracies. Rodney Ascher's wry and provocative Room 237 fuses fact and fiction through interviews with cultists and scholars, creating a kaleidoscopic deconstruction of Kubrick's still-controversial classic.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 030306987996
• Release Date: September 2013
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: MPI Home Video
• Director: Ascher, Rodney
• Starring: Blakemore, Bill, Cocks, Geoffrey
• Runtime: 1 hour, 36 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

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This presentation is in documentary form with odd people who spend time speculating on supposedly purposely hidden messages permeating Kubrick’s film “The Shining” (1980), with some comparison and contrast to the Stephen King novel. There is a montage of clips from: “Foust", Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau, 1926 Demons 2 (1986) Demons (1985) Video from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Making of the Shining (1980) Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Full Metal Jacket (1987) The Shining (1980) Barry Lyndon (1975) A Clockwork Orange (1971) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Dr. Strangelove (1964) Lolita (1962) Spartacus (1960) Paths of Glory (1957) The Killing (1956) Killer’s Kiss (1953) Fear and Desire (1953) Dreamscape (1984) Brainwaves (1983) In the Land of War Canoes (1914) The Beast in Heat (1975) Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) The Magic Mountain (1982) Sitting Bull at Spirit Lake Massacre (1927) An American Werewolf in London (1981) Wolf (1994) The Three Little Pigs (1933) Creepshow (1982) Capricorn One (1977) The White Buffalo (1977) Satyricon (1969) The Brain from Planet Arous (1957) Spellbound (1940) The Terror (1963) Apocalypto (2006) The Legend of Hell House (1973) Agency (1980) Kicker (1981) The Shining (1997) Summer of ’42 (1971) Schindler’s List (1993) Dr. Doolittle (1967) My Fair Lady (1964) The Battle of Apache Pass (1853) All the President’s Men (1976) Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) Did aliens build the pyramids? Did Stanley Kubrick incorporate disenfranchised Indians? Did Columbus think that the Western Hemisphere was India? Did Stanley Kubrick incorporate dispatched Jews? Did we know that we are being watched by a cabal? Did Stanley Kubrick incorporate ideas from the book “Subliminal Seduction” Did the government use widgets in Telstar? Did Stanley Kubrick incorporate nasties into rug patterns? Are you going to waste one hour and 43 minutes and four seconds on this claptrap?