Part One: One Night in an Empty Hotel

Today, hundreds of theories and dozens of documentaries have tackled the classic film… most of them trying to answer one question, what was The Shining even about? Forty years ago, audiences couldn't care less about the film. So… what the hell happened?

Perfectionist. Visionary. Madman. Kubrick heard all of these and more. But, that didn't stop him from his filmmaking style, his infamous 127-take shot, and his even more notorious neglect and abuse of one cast member...

A 3 am telephone call soon changed the history of horror and cinema. But first, we travel back to Manhattan in the 1940s where a deviant boy's fascination with photography was brewing...

On a bleak autumn night, in an abandoned hotel near the Rocky Mountains, the idea came to Stephen King in a dream… Or should I say... a nightmare.