20 Things You Didn't Know About The Shining

20. The Overlook Hotel Makes No Sense

One of the first things you notice about this movie when you start combing through it with a critical eye is that the Overlook Hotel makes absolutely no god damn sense.

Let's start with Ullman's office. The office has windows looking outside, but their placement makes no sense because looking at the room from the outside clearly shows that there are rooms where those windows would be placed. In fact, multiple times throughout the movie there are windows that should not exist where they are. The ballroom could not fit inside a hotel like this, corridors go on too long and sometimes wind in circles.

According to Jan Harlan, the film's executive producer, this was all - of course - intentional. Nothing about the inside of this hotel is meant to make any kind of logical sense. The Torrence family left logic behind when they took this job to begin with. It's one of the first things you notice when you go looking for the deeper meaning behind this movie, which is why it's here at the bottom of the list, but noticing it really does add to the nightmarish quality of the setting.