The sound of Danny's tricycle abruptly shifting from loud plastic to total silence creates deep psychological tension.

Film/Series: The Shining

Category: Trivia Fact

Timestamp: 00:28:45

Stanley Kubrick used foley (sound effects) to manipulate the audience's anxiety. As Danny rides his Big Wheel tricycle through the Overlook Hotel, the wheels make a loud, jarring, rumbling noise on the hardwood floors, which abruptly cuts to dead silence the second he hits a Persian rug. This alternating pattern of loud roaring and sudden, suffocating quiet subconsciously prepares the viewer for a jump scare around every corner.

The sound of Danny's tricycle abruptly shifting from loud plastic to total silence creates deep psychological tension. in The Shining

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