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Still a chilling film, but this version that airs on TV is the standard version. I have read on imdb that there is a version out with the original ending (Wendy in hospital) and other deleted scenes. Rather than take a chance on ebay, where some discs 'include extra's' is there anyway of knowing what I am getting is what I'm after?

This has been shown several times on TV so should be fairly easy to get and I think is a better film for it.

Incidentally the end sequence in the Directors Cut of Blade Runner is footage discarded by Kubrick from the opening of The Shinning.

You'll have to check but 'The Shining: Digitally Remastered Version' appears to be the 146 minute version

Many thanks Jacques for putting me in the right direction !wink!

No problem Ace - it's the R1 version you want by the look of it:



The R2 version of it is 114 minutes

I saw a different edit to The Shining on SKY movies a while back - presumably the US theatrical version and not the usual, leaner edit Kubrick made for its later european release as shown last night.

The main differences seemed to be a lot more footage of Scatman Crothers returning to the Overlook, and a scene in which Wendy runs into the Gold Room at the end and finds it full of cobwebbed skeletons. The film also cut away during the Jack/Wendy/baseball bat scene which I thought diminished its impact somewhat.

Worth seeing to sate curiousity of course, but the version normally shown is I think the better one. After all, this is a perfectionist we're dealing with here.

I don't know why Stephen King slagged it off, it is a chilling film.
My old best mate watched it years ago and he was an Assistant Manager of a hotel, and walking down the long empty hotel corridors used to shit him up no end.

Stephen King hated it because Kubrick jettisoned most of the supernatural elements and made it more about Nicholson's character losing his mind than the hotel itself being almost alive.

In many ways it's almost a companion piece to Robert Wise's The Haunting, which again involved a spooky place and someone slowly losing their marbles.

King, who was inspired by Shirley Jackson's source novel for The Haunting, was fixated on the idea of a place being inherently evil, a theme that crops up again and again: Salem's Lot, The Shining, and particularly IT.

Kubrick took most of the horror story cliches and either threw them out or made fun of them. And by creating a sterile, well-lit set where nothing could lurk in shadows, he managed to make something very chilling and disturbing.

Worth noting that it was rubbished by critics when it came out, and largely ignored by audiences.

bbc showed it in the late 80s im sure it ran for almost 3 hrs,.Ace wrote:

> Still a chilling film, but this version that airs on TV is the
> standard version. I have read on imdb that there is a version
> out with the original ending (Wendy in hospital) and other
> deleted scenes. Rather than take a chance on ebay, where some
> discs 'include extra's' is there anyway of knowing what I am
> getting is what I'm after?
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