Red Rum: A Belated Look at The Shining

In which I finally write about Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece.

Simon Dillon
Fanfare
Published in
5 min readOct 15, 2021

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Credit: Warner Brothers

Yes, yes, all right, I know this is yet another article about The Shining. Yes, I acknowledge that Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror masterpiece has been pored over, picked apart, and analysed to within an inch of its life. Such obsessing has led to truly bizarre theories about the film…

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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com