Influence on Shining?


Does anybody know - was this an influence on Shining, or was it just a coincidence that King/Kubrick also used the typewriter scene? Did King or Kubrick ever see this movie?

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It must have been, that was definately the first thing that came to mind during that scene. The movies share other similar themes as well.

"No man is just a number"

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Exactly. this was the first thing in my mind. But in Shining this scene is very very creepy. If you see in the "movie connections" section in this page, you´ll see a mention about Shinning.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069421/movieconnections

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I wouldn´t doubt it. It seems that Kubrick was fairly inspired by Italian horror in general while doing The Shining. There´s a lot of Mario Bava´s "Kill Baby, Kill" in it, and the whole film feels a lot like Argento´s "Suspiria".

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure, the costly, exacting mistress

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You know he was doing a signing for his new book last week at a Barnes and Noble, it would have been a great thing to ask him. Unfortunately I couldn't go.



www.thecultofhorror.blogspot.com

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There's an interview with Sergio Martino in the DVD extras where this was asked of him, and his answer shows the difference between him and someone like Lenzi, who would have taken all the credit. Martino mentioned an even earlier and more famous work that had also used that typewriter plot device.

http://www.dementia13.net/film/film.php

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Not for sure, but it could have been. Although Martino freely admits he borrowed the typewriter scene from earlier movies. Jack Nicholson's overacting would have been perfect in a giallo film!

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The first time I saw this I did think the same about the typewriter scene.

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