![]() It’s all atmosphere and just this oppressive tension.” “The thing I love about The Shining is, and I would say it to some of the crew when we were working is, tell me your favorite jump scare in The Shining,” Flanagan says. That terror eventually developed into a true love of the horror masterpiece for Flanagan, who has spent the last decade, starting with 2011’s underrated Absentia, scaring the hell out of us. But it pretty much defined what it meant to be scared of a movie for me.” And I didn’t really start to digest the movie properly and understand it from a filmmaking perspective until I got older. “I watched it on VHS at a sleepover and was totally petrified. ![]() And yes, the infamous pastel green bathroom haunted by the cackling Mrs. “I saw The Shining, I think, it was in eighth grade,” Flanagan tells our group of journalists in a large, rundown living room that we’ll soon learn is part of the Room 237 interior they’ve recreated from scratch. It’s no easy task to follow up a movie as masterful as Kubrick’s, but here is Flanagan, with plenty of great horror projects under his belt, and a true love for King’s work. ![]() ![]() After all, it’s the sequel to not only one of King’s most beloved novels but one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Listening to Flanagan describe the movie and its sets, you get the sense that no filmmaker has ever been so excited to work on a King movie, even one with as many expectations as this one. ![]()
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