Room 237
- Release Date
- October 26, 2012
- Director
- Rodney Ascher
- Cast
- Bill Blakemore , Geoffrey Cocks , Juli Kearns , John Fell Ryan , Jay Weidner , Sam Walton
- Runtime
- 102
- Main Genre
- Documentary
- Writers
- Rodney Ascher
- Tagline
- Some movies stay with you forever...And ever...And ever...
- Website
- http://room237movie.com/
Summary
After the box office failure of Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick decided to embark on a project that might have more commercial appeal. The Shining, Stephen King’s biggest critical and commercial success yet, seemed like a perfect vehicle. After an arduous production, Kubrick’s film received a wide release in the summer of 1980; the reviews were mixed, but the box office, after a slow start, eventually picked up. End of story? Hardly. In the 30 years since the film’s release, a considerable cult of Shining devotees has emerged, fans who claim to have decoded the film’s secret messages addressing everything from the genocide of Native Americans to a range of government conspiracies. Rodney Ascher’s wry and provocative Room 237 fuses fact and fiction through interviews with cultists and scholars, creating a kaleidoscopic deconstruction of Kubrick’s still-controversial classic.
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