Dan Lloyd, former child actor, reminisces about playing Danny in The Shining.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 51     Danny the kid   Dan the adult   (photo by Anthony Taafe)   If you enjoy the podcast, please support my work by donating!

Megan Dooley stops by for one of the most action-packed segments of the movie, discussing how Hallorann’s death was originally shot, that strange costume, and who the heck those weirdoes are in the bedroom.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 50     A still from an outtake that reflects the original Nosferatu (1922)   […]

Andy Newman from The New York Times and performer Fran Pado discuss Hallorann’s death fixation, validate “redrum” as a gimmick, and bonus: We have our first guest who was too scared to make it through the movie!   Download the file here: Shining Episode 49     A free version of The Harlem Globetrotters on […]

Oscar-winning filmmaker Lee Unkrich discusses his upcoming book on The Shining, deleted scenes, and reveals the actor who was supposed to play Lloyd.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 48     The ax scene in Sjöström’s The Phantom Carriage (1921)   The ax scene in D.W. Griffith’s Broken Blossoms (1919) is from 1:17:00 until 1:18:05   […]

The New Yorker‘s Joe Dator is back to discuss movie prequel The Overlook, other unmade Kubrick scripts, Pogo the Clown, and the regenerative properties of kids.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 47     Stanley Kubrick operating the camera for the first ax scene, outside the caretaker’s apartment.   Script for Napoleon   […]

Jewish film scholar Nathan Abrams discusses the Jewishness of Kubrick, his Nazi family connections, and the lost script Burning Secret.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 46     Guest Nathan Abrams’ article in The Forward about the Jewishness of 2001: A Space Odyssey   If you enjoy the podcast, please support my work by […]

Director Vincenzo Natali discusses the surprising Canadian-ness of The Shining, the business of horror, and his own King adaptation.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 45   Alex Colville painting, Horse and Train, found in the Torrance’s Boulder apartment   Alex Colville painting, Woman and Terrier, found in the Torrance’s Boulder apartment   Alex […]

Gaylord Fields watches The Shining for the first time and discusses his aversion to horror, the Magical Black Man, and the alarming lack of winter coats at The Overlook.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 44     Gaylord’s legendary talk on fake Beatles   Trailer for Matinee (1993)   If you enjoy the […]

Megan Dooley is back to discuss Stanley vs. Winkle, old-timey cinema, and personal horror stories, including a monster sarcoma.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 43     Photos from my visit to The Cinema Museum, London   Possibly the oldest of Willis O’Brien’s animations (1915).   Armature of one of the ape puppets […]

Elstree historian Howard Berry discusses secrets from the Archive, fantasy films at Elstree, and that Kubrick cameo in Eyes Wide Shut.   Download the file here: Shining Episode 42     A tour of Elstree and Kubrick’s old neighborhood with Howie Berry.   Filming from one angle of the famous stairs scene.   Howie’s Elstree Project […]