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Shedding some new light on The Shining

Room 237 (15)

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Dir: Rodney Ascher

Runtime: 102 minutes

ITS subtitle, Being an Inquiry into The Shining in 9 Parts, makes Rodney Ascher's documentary sound like a snore, but this dissection of some of the theories surrounding Kubrick's horror is great fun. Lining up contributors to argue that the film is about anything from genocide to faking moon landing footage, Ascher makes excellent use of talking heads and footage to give context to the apparently outlandish theories.

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