10 Movie Endings That Leave More Questions Than Answers

Another Stanley Kubrick masterpiece, The Shining, is an adaptation of Stephen King's novel, which followers a writer, Jack Torrance and his family as they move into a hotel.

At the same time, Jack slowly starts to lose his mind. While staying at the Overlook Hotel, Jack and his family experience multiple strange supernatural occurrences and visions until Jack finally succumbs to his insanity and goes crazy trying to kill his wife and son.

After a brilliant axe-wielding rampage, we see Jack freeze to death outside the hotel's maze as the film pans out from a photograph of Jack surrounded by the ghosts he saw in the hotel, dated 60 years earlier in 1921.

Since the film's release, many questions and theories have come over the years. The main question concerns why Jack is shown in an image from 1921. Is his soul stuck in the hotel forever? Was he one of the ghosts in the past? Did one of the hotel's ghosts possess him? Theories have ranged from a Groundhog Day style of never-ending insanity and violence to the hotel not being real.

The movie has been so talked about since its release that there is a documentary named Room 237, talking about theories and questions from the film.