The Overlook is huge. It's overwhelming. From the opening shots of The Shining, The Overlook Hotel looks like it's going to eat its inhabitants. Toward the end of the film, it looks like it does just that. Throughout this essay I will demonstrate how Kubrick uses filmic techniques to illustrate the film's main theme of claustrophobia, and it's relation to the hotel's progressively terrifying possession of Jack Torrance's mind. The plot of The Shining (based …showed first 75 words of 2410 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2410 total…in Jack. In few films has setting been so integral to the horror. Kubrick takes his camera into The Overlook and exploits that horror for its maximum impact, telling a story with the camera that is just as compelling at the story it was based upon. Throughout The Shining, Kubrick takes great pains to put his characters in an environment from which there is little chance of escape, and there are demons around every turn.