“In The Shining, you never hear any noises like those in classic horror films. Not a single door squeaks, no windows slam shut, the floors never creak, loud winds don’t howl through the halls. There’s never a moan or a ghostly whine, and we never hear a clock tick. The Overlook Hotel never makes so much as a single sound.”

The Shining, 1980

“The movie is not about ghosts, but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them.”

The Shining, 1980