What horror films did Kubrick like?
Michel Ciment asked him this question in 1980. He answered Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist. He was also reportedly a big fan of David Lynch’s Eraserhead. Recently his daughter Katharina told amk, An American Werewolf in London and Silence of the Lambs were two films he admired. 4/ What horror themes and conventions are referenced in The Shining? David Kirkpatrick writes: I’m as guilty as anyone in the newsgroup of plumbing the depths of The Shining in search and exploit missions of sub-texts, bypassing the obvious horror story on the surface (but what a guilty pleasure it is!). This time, though, I’d like to look at some of the stuff on the surface of what Newsweek called “the first epic horror film”, if I’m not mistaken. Well, one characteristic of epics is an encyclopedic scope. Let’s look at way in which The Shining is an “encyclopedia” of horror themes. (1) Ghost / Haunted House. That The Shining is a ghost story is self-evident, so I’ll save my detailed remarks for items below. (
