Jack Torrance violently chopping through the bathroom door with an axe to get to his wife.

Film/Series: The Shining

Category: Reference Homage

Timestamp: 01:54:10

The "Here's Johnny!" sequence is one of the most famous in cinematic history, but Stanley Kubrick actually lifted the entire visual composition of this scene from a silent film. It is a terrifying homage to Victor Sjöström's 1921 Swedish horror classic "The Phantom Carriage," where a similarly deranged man uses an axe to chop through a wooden door to reach his terrified wife.

Jack Torrance violently chopping through the bathroom door with an axe to get to his wife. in The Shining

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