Shining Vale: The Shining’s Room 237 Explains What Happened To Rosemary
Warning: Contains spoilers for Shining Vale episode 4.
A similarity between Rosemary’s implied death in Shining Vale and The Shining’s room 237 might give away how and why Rosemary died. Even after four episodes and some more extensive conversations between Pat and Rosemary, very little is known about the true history of the house’s previous inhabitant. However, Shining Vale contains a wealth of easter eggs and references to The Shining, both Stephen King’s original 1977 novel, and Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 movie adaptation.
In Shining Vale episode 4, “So Much Blood,” Pat Phelps (Courteney Cox) is making more headway on her erotic novel with the help of Rosemary’s ghost (Mira Sorvino)—who Pat still thinks is just her muse. However, during a bathtub scene, Rosemary continually has Pat write gory death scenes, and when Pat insists on writing something different catastrophe strikes. The first time it appears that Rosemary’s straight razor makes an appearance (in a possible homage to Dexter’s Trinity Killer), in the next scene she is merely sucked beneath the water and a wealth of blood appears, and in the final version, Rosemary smashes the mirror.
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In both Stephen King’s The Shining and Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation, a woman named Lorraine Massey took her own life in a bathtub. The biggest difference between the two versions is simply the room number with the book using room 217 and Kubrick’s film changing it to room 237 for production reasons. Lorraine Massey had died only two years before the setting of the book, having visited the Overlook Hotel with a young man who she was having an affair with, and she took her life in a manner similar to Rosemary’s first death in Shining Vale
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