10 Not So Obvious Messages With Deeper Meanings In Stanley Kubrick's Films

Take a closer look at The Shining and you will notice furniture, particularly chairs, are there in one scene and gone a second later. This is almost certainly deliberate, to illustrate The Overlook is haunted.

It's interesting to note that the famous scene with the river of blood flowing out of the lift contains chairs toppled over. In this scene, as the blood starts to flow over the screen, ghostly furniture from the past almost flashes before our eyes. A toppled, blood stained chair is also present beside the two dead girls earlier in the film, which we see through Danny's visions, and it's likely these two chairs we later see coming out of the lift are representative of the murders.

It's interesting to note that Stephen King hated Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining, claiming it to be more of a drama and stating that Kubrick failed to understand that The Overlook itself is a ghostly entity, wanting Danny's Shining for its own purpose, because Kubrick was too much of a skeptic when it came to the supernatural. If the master of horror looked closer he would see that Kubrick made the Overlook subtly, but profoundly, haunted in his own special way.