In 1966 Stanley Kubrick told a friend that he wanted to make “the world’s scariest movie.” A decade later Stephen King’sThe Shininglanded on the director’s desk, and a visual masterpiece was born. Thisdefinitive compendium of the filmfeatureshundreds of photographs,rare production ephemera, andextensive interviewswith the cast and crew.
The making of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece of modern horror
“The Shiningmay be the first movie that ever made its audience jump with a title that simply says, ‘Tuesday,’” proclaimedThe New York Times. Never has a film evoked so much dread in its audience with so little gore than Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of the 1977 novel by the master of terror himself, Stephen King, where true horror lies in the darkest corners of domesticity and isolation.Equally a study of theintricate mechanics of Kubrick’s geniusas anin-depth look at the making of a visual masterpiece,Stanley Kubrick’s The Shininggathershundreds of hours of exclusive new interviews with the cast and crewin an unprecedented look at the 1980 cult classic. Slip in through the back door of The Overlook Hotel to witness Kubrick’s endless rounds of script rewrites, his revolutionary use of the Steadicam, the mechanics behind the infamous blood elevator, the mysterious mid-filming fire at Elstree Studios, and the countless takes needed to satisfy the meticulous force that was Kubrick.Conceived and edited byAcademy Award-winning director Lee Unkrich, dubbed byThe Hollywood Reporteras “the world's foremostShiningaficionado,” with text bybest-selling author J.W. Rinzlerand aforeword by Steven Spielberg, this is the definitive compendium of the film that transformed the horror genre.The two-volume collection designed by M/M Paris includes hundreds of never-before-seen production photographs from the Stanley Kubrick Archive and the personal collections of cast and crew, rare documents and correspondence, conceptual art, an exclusive look at deleted scenes, and more.
