This film marks one of the early uses of the steadicam, which was invented by Garrett Brown in 1975.
Another horror movie of note that was filmed here is the 1951 sci-fi film The Thing from Another World.
The opening aerial shots of this movie were filmed at Glacier National Park in Montana. The Shining made its television debut on ABC on May 6th, 1983. The Torrance family apartment was actually filmed in Boulder however at Kensington Apartments. Other settings include the town of Sidewinder, and Denver, which is where the Torrance family lives. The central setting of this film is Boulder, Colorado and the surrounding Rocky Mountains. In the novel and in the miniseries, Dick Hallorann uses the phrase "shine on" when speaking to Danny. The song contains the lyric "We all shine on", which King then utilized as a descriptor of Danny and Dick's psychic abilities. The title of the book and the film is derived from the 1970 song "Instant Karma!" by John Lennon. With the success of The Shining, Stephen King mania kicks into high gear with three film adaptations that are released in 1983, beginning with Cujo, then The Dead Zone, and then Christine. Previous adaptations include 1976's Carrie by director Brian De Palma, and Salem's Lot by Tobe Hooper, which was a television movie that aired in November, 1979. This is the third movie to adapt a Stephen King novel, and the second film released theatrically. Production on The Shining began on May 1st, 1978. Shining (1980), The Shining (1980), and Shining, The (1980) all redirect to this page. See Differences from the novel for more details. While the premise between the two is the same, there are many drastic alterations between the movie and the book. The Shining is loosely based on the 1977 horror novel The Shining by author Stephen King. Headhunter's Horror House Wiki has a collection of images related to Shining, The (1980). As the staff predicted, Jack Torrance grows violent and insane and tries to kill his family. Couple that with the fact that Danny has a unique psychic ability called " shining", which causes him great distress. 
The hotel has a dark and haunted history and more than its fair share of ghosts. Almost immediately things begin to go awry. Jack moves in with his wife Wendy and young son Danny. Jack Torrance is hired on as the caretaker of the hotel during the winter months when it is closed down, but before the staff leaves they warn him that the extreme isolation might give him cabin fever. The setting of the movie is the Overlook Hotel in the mountains of Colorado in the present day.
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