Shining Vale: Every Easter Egg & Reference To The Shining (King & Kubrick)
Warning: Contains spoilers for Shining Vale, episode 2.
The horror-comedy series Shining Vale is full of references and easter eggs for The Shining, both Stephen King’s original 1977 novel and Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film adaptation. While it might seem that a reference to one version of The Shining would be a reference to both, this is not the case. Kubrick’s The Shining included many visual and cinematographic choices that added a new layer to the book while also changing some of the motivation, set pieces, and even the ending, resulting in a movie that Stephen King has famously hated.
Shining Vale follows the Phelps family as they move from a Brooklyn apartment to a potentially haunted house in Connecticut. The move is driven by an affair that Pat Phelps (Courteney Cox) had with the handyman, Frank (Jonathan Higginbotham), that has led the family to try to put some distance from their past as Terry Phelps (Greg Kinnear) tries to move past it. Before they even arrive at the house, Pat starts to see apparitions and as time passes, she finds herself haunted by the ghost of Rosemary (Mira Sorvino) as she tries to work on her new book.
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The Shining might well be the most heavily referenced horror movie ever made, with so many later works paying homage to its iconic scenes or parodying them. When combined with the similarity in name between The Shining and Shining Vale, it might appear as though the large number of references might come across as cheap. However, Shining Vale self-consciously uses these references to draw a comparison between how men and women are treated with mental illness and trauma as it takes a feminist look at the original story, justifying the
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