While Danny explores around the hotel at the beginning of the film, one of the visions he sees is blood spurting out of the red elevators.
While Wendy and Danny go through the maze next to the Overlook Hotel, the camera spans over the maze showing a network of paths and hedges of tall bushes.
Wendy and Danny are shown to be wearing red while going through the maze. It is clearly shown that the character wears red a lot in the film.
Danny stops riding his tricycle in the middle of the hallway seeing twin girls that were killed in the incident with the previous caretaker of the Overlook Hotel.
Danny plays with his toys on the orange, brown, red patterned carpet.
Danny comes up to an open hotel room with a red key tag that reads 237, the room that Dick Hallorann, the Overlook Hotels' Chef warns him not to go to.
The green ominous bathroom in room 237 is where Jack investigate who was the person in the bathroom that strangled Danny.
Tony, the voice that lives in Danny's mouth possesses Danny to write murder backward with red lipstick.
Jack the current caretaker of the Overlook Hotel meets the illusion of the previous caretaker who ended up in the incident of killing his family and himself in the hotel. The red bathroom shows a shot of the two people who both have similar bizarre thoughts, behavior, and actions.
During the 5 months of caretaking a hotel, Jack uses his time to write using a typewriter preventing distraction from his work.
Dick Hallorann, the hotels' chef drives all the way back to the hotel to help the Torrance family from danger to only go straight to his doom but at the same time, the vehicle he took helps Wendy and Danny escape from a deranged Jack at the end of the film.
Built-in 1907, the posh, grand, and secluded Overlook Hotel, located in the mountains of Colorado, closed for the winter months as it was never designed as a ski resort, that seclusion and isolation which has always been its attraction for its upscale guests and which makes it largely inaccessible in the snowy winter. Having recently moved from Vermont to Boulder with his wife Wendy and their adolescent son Danny, former schoolteacher Jack Torrance has just accepted the five-month job as the Overlook's winter caretaker in wanting uninterrupted solitude to start his new career as a writer.
In accepting the job, Jack was not deterred in knowing of the incident ten years ago when the then hotel GM Charles Grady, acting as that season's winter caretaker, developed a severe case of cabin fever and ended up gruesomely killing his wife and two daughters before killing himself. Beyond a recent undiagnosed collapse experienced by Danny which may be an issue if it happens again at the hotel, Wendy is looking forward to this five-month getaway. While Danny indirectly states he doesn't want to go, Wendy is not concerned about his emotional well being in this new situation as he, out of circumstance, has often been on his own without other children around, which has long ago led to him creating an imaginary friend named Tony who lives in Danny's mouth. When the Torrances arrive at the Overlook on October 30th, its last day of operation before they take over for the winter, Danny learns that there is someone at the hotel who knows his secret abilities in association with Tony's true nature. After the regular staff leaves for the winter and as winter truly sets in, the isolation of the resort begins to show itself. The question becomes which of the often battling powers in this isolation will ultimately come out on top: Wendy's mortal fortitude, Danny's secret ability which he learns is called the shining, or the hotel's associated secrets which are slowly overtaking Jack.
5 words: Psychic, recurrence, mania, isolation, disturbing
Danny has psychic abilities which make him see the dark secrets and past that the Overlook Hotel carries while he strolls around the hotel hallways while his father, Jack loses his sanity due to the influence of the hotel.
The labyrinth fades from black and slightly positions to the left. Starring moves within the green labyrinth while Jack Nicholson is the first name to enter the labyrinth. The first actor's name is in red and disappears a couple of seconds after it's introduced.
The labyrinth will be rotated to transition to introduce the next actor. This time the actor's name is in white and it appears in a different location and disappears to introduce the next actor.
The labyrinth will be rotated once again and the next actor's name is in red and located at the corner of the labyrinth being shown.
The labyrinth will be rotated again to introduce its last actor. The actor's name will be in white and located slightly in the middle of the labyrinth. It will be rotated again to introduce the cinematographer.
The cinematographer is introduced similar to how the first actor was introduced. White for the role and red for the name.
Rotation of the labyrinth and the editor is introduced.
The labyrinth is rotated again and introduces the music composers. The music composers are red and white to keep up with the pattern throughout the film title.
The labyrinth is rotated again and the producer is introduced.
The labyrinth rotates one last time and introduces the directors.
The screen will move to the middle of the labyrinth and it will show that this film is based on a novel and fade out.
The title of the film is introduced by fading in the same spot as the novel text.
The title of the film is placed behind the labyrinth in the same text size while the labyrinth gets smaller to show the whole labyrinth.
The title fades over the labyrinth.
The red title of the film will be washed off with white to make it appears as if a snowstorm just hit.