Review of Room 237 (2012) by Möe M — 19 Oct 2013

This "Documentary" was such a load of crap that I turned it off after 20 minutes. The patheticness of the "theorists" and their "logic" behind Calumet, and hidden numbers, a manager that has a penis when he stands next to an In Box, subliminal messaging, and suitcases turning into people & vice versa, etc., etc... Utter bullspit. And here I thought I spent too much time indoors watching movies. These people need to get a life!!

I actually read once that all the blood pouring & gushing out of the elevators was a metaphor for, wait for it... menstruation. Yep, that's right. Periods. It was supposed to symbolize that blood coming forth from the orifice-like elevators was like the renewal of a new life that Wendy & Danny would have by the end of the movie... Good Lord. When did a horror movie turn into theories about Indians massacres, vaginas, men carrying furniture, and the moronic (and never shown to be true) Kubrik face in the sky...?

Wait! I know! The movie is REALLY all about how you should never play ball in the house like Nicholson did! Throwing that ball over & over & over again against the wall...? It's just like Peter Brady did on the Brady Bunch. Innocent actions lead to bad things happening. The Brady Bunch, which was spoofed years later in a movie, starred... SHELLEY Long; the same first name as SHELLEY Duvall. See?! It all ties together! Ooooh. Spooky...

Please...

The only thing I found "interesting" was that Jack was reading a Playgirl magazine in the lobby of the hotel. First, that it was there. Second, that a straight married man was reading it (yeah, yeah. For the articles.). And Third, that the manager and his assistant don't even think or look twice at it. Like it's just a natural thing... Now THAT was interesting.

In the end, here I thought The Shining was basically about a hotel with an evil entity/haunted past trying to take over the winter's caretaker in order for him to kill his family...

Then again, maybe I'm looking too deep into what the film tried to show me.