This is the hotel that inspired The Shining: Discover the true story of the Stanley Hotel, the most haunted in the United States.

In 1980, Stanley Kubrick released the horror film The Shining, which is now one of the must-sees of the 7th art. But before the cinematic work there was a novel written by Stephen King. And the story of how it was done is not trivial, as we tell you in this new episode of the podcast It’s a True Story:

We will be opening the doors to the Stanley Hotel, considered by many to be the most haunted hotel in the United States. Behind this beautiful white building hides all kinds of ghosts that come to torment customers. It is this famous place that inspired Stephen King to write The Shining. An American author spent an unusual night there a few years ago…

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Writer Jack Torrence is hired all winter as a caretaker at the Overlook, a large isolated hotel in Colorado, where he hopes to finally overcome his lack of inspiration. He moved there with his wife, Wendy, and son, Dennis, who had a gift. While Jack makes no progress in his book and his son is increasingly haunted by terrifying visions, he discovers the inn’s sinister secrets and gradually descends into a form of murderous madness, where he takes his own family…

With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd… Available only on VOD.