holy shit the trailer was creepier than the actual movie.the music is pretty disturbing too.they dont make the trailers,or the movies, as good as this anymore!
i've been looking for the actual trailer shown on tv for years. I remember seeing this back in 1980 when i was 4. Man i wish i could go back and watch this in the theaters today. Same with EXORCIST, JAWS, SUPERMAN and many more.
@markfreemon Actually, they used alternate takes because it was cheaper back then to just use leftover footage rather than reprint the pieces of film that were used in the final cut. This was before film was digitally scanned and edited with computers or tapes.
Wow,nicholson looked just like d'onofrio right before and after he murders in full metal jacket.Those stares and movements make them look like a human raptor or something,really creepy.
I'd see this commercial when the movie came out in San Franciso. A local station would play it at around 11:00pm and I was always freaked out because I thought Shelly Long was like a witch or something going up the stairs with the knife. I was 10 yrs.old
@tall32guy It features different TAKES, not scenes. :06 is a different take, :18 is a different take, :21 is a different take, :23 wasn't even in the movie, and :24 is a different take.
@FixiousMaximus You're right they're alternate takes -- but every shot here is in the movie -- unless you're referring to the truncated version released in the UK, which I've never seen.
I actually like the shot of Jack rising up after killing Hallorann. It seems more twisted that he smirks as if he momentarily quenched his thirst for his first kill. The one in the film is great, too, but it seems more in lieu with other psychopathic murderers in movies.
0:23 is great. it shows jack chopping through the door panel that is closest to wendy, while it seems that the other panel had already been chopped out. this wasn't shown in the movie. the movie showed jack chopping the other panel, the one farthest from wendy, and yet a later seen in the movie showed the door as if both panels had been chopped out. apparently the scene shown in the trailer was deleted even though the movie showed the result of that scene.
Considering that Kubrick later ordered all of his unused and discarded takes from all of his films to be destroyed (read: incinerated in an industrial lot), this is all we'll have left over from the movie. Too bad he left us before DVD 's took off, and before he did that to his outtakes!
WHATS UP WITH THAT TERRIFYING FACE EMBEDDED IN THE LOGO....IS THAT DANNY???.....SHIT....I HOPE NOT......DANNY AIN'T LOOKIN' TOO HOT......DOWNRIGHT UNCOMFORTABLE.....LOL...
@seran99 yea, it sounds a bit high pitched. also, something else seems strange about the voice. the accent doesn't sound to me like what i would regard as an english accent. the accent sounds pretty much like what i have, which is common in the northern u.s. and canada. though the advertisement was for england, maybe they picked a voice-over guy that was from the u.s. or canada.
I remember a trailer very similar to this airing in the US when I was a child. The images are burned in my mind because I used to go running from the living screaming when it came on TV. The beautiful and terrifying score along with the image of Nicholson hobbling through the snow with that fireman's axe is powerful in my mind and wonder where the American version of this trailer is.
@tommyrocket i was born in late 1967, and i recall a trailer very much like this on tv back when the movie first came to the theatre where i lived, near detroit. it might be the same trailer that is shown here, except that it wouldn't have had that voice mentioning london. the trailer spooked me back then. i have strong memories of the scene where the creature is running through the snow. i thought the creature was a monster. i didn't realize the creature was a little boy until i saw the movie.
@tommyrocket i think the american version was just like this one, aside from the voice-over that advertizes locations where the movie could be seen. if the voice-over is regarded as part of the trailer, then the u.s. likely had tons of trailers advertizing the different areas that were showing the movie. i'd like to find a trailer with no voice-over. the voice-over interferes with the music.
Very Cool, promo, interesting to see the some of the cuts of the shining, now I can somewhat of why Mr. Kubrick choose not to use them, the one with Jack after killing Hallorman and the longer version of the Here's Johnny scene, but very cool to post it.
Kubrick is known for discarding the unused takes... So, this is probably one of the only places you'll see alternate takes. He wants the final version of the film to be the 'only' version. I believe that in the case of The Shining, only 2% of the entire developed film ever made it to screen...
@Johnlindsey289 Agreed. And the fact that it is so incredibly rare to see any unused footage from a Kubrick film makes this particular TV spot all the more special, i think.
@TheAltair4 I always wondered if Kubrick cut out that panel himself to get a different camera angle, or if Jack chopped it down. Nice to have an answer :)
@FixiousMaximus Yeah, that always kind of bothered me too. It was such a glaring continuity error in the film that had me puzzled for so long. But here is the actual visual proof that the scene was originally longer.
@TheAltair4 ha!! i just now noticed your comment there. you were one of those whose comments made me realize about that 2nd panel, thereby inspiring me to make that video demonstrating the continuity flaw, and then you commented on my video. when you commented on my video, you likely didn't realize that your comment at THIS video helped inspire me to make the video on which you commented. i think kubrick deleted that scene because it was so much like the previous scene. he saved time.
@coventrygardens HAHA! And how ironic it is that i was the very first one to comment on your video too. I'm very glad that i could help to inspire someone to make a video about something that interests me. It's also quite possible that Kubrick omitted that part of the scene because he finally decided that he wasn't completely satisified with something about the shot. He was the ultimate perfectionist, after all, and anything that he felt wasn't 100% flawless in execution he would scrap entirely.
@TheAltair4 i can imagine things that may have gone wrong in making that scene. maybe jack and/or shelley started laughing because it was tough to keep pretending that jack was trying to kill wendy. maybe jack tried another one of those sarcastic remarks,& screwed it up. maybe the ax head got stuck in the door. tons of things could have happened. when i saw this trailer in 1980, when i was 12 or 13 , i thought the creature running through the snow was a monster, but it turned out to be danny.
@coventrygardens Yeah,a lot of things can and often do go wrong on film productions no matter the size or the budget. As a kid i remember seeing a short behind the scenes clip of Jack, Shelley and the entire crew laughing and cutting up on the set right after Kubrick yelled "CUT!" for that scene. It was from some horror documentary that was broadcast on network t.v. back in the very early 90's if i'm remembering correctly. I wish that i could remember what the title of that show had been called.
@TheAltair4 there would have been many times when it would have been hard for the actors to avoid giggling. like when jack mentioned the little pigs. i guess you were too young ( or non-existent ) to have seen the shining soon after it was released. i read the novel ( or part of it ) right before seeing the movie in 1980 or 1981. it would have been nice if kubrick had kept some deleted scenes around. he could have made a movie that consisted of deleted scenes from movies he had made.
@coventrygardens I was around when it was released but i have no real memory of having seen it in the theater because i was just a baby. My parents would always take me with them to the theater along with my older brother when i was little because i never fussed or cried during the film like most babies do. They told me that i had slept through most of it just as i had also done during Popeye and Flash Gordon. My first actual memory of it is when i saw it on cable t.v. in late 83, when i was 4.
@TheAltair4 after i saw the shining in 1980, i occasionally saw bits of it on tv, but i didn't spend much time looking at it or talking about it until about 3 weeks ago when i decided to take another look at it. right before i got back into examining the shining, i had been examining the movies with the name "halloween". i had seen the early "halloween" movies years ago, but i didn't see the later movies till the last few weeks. both the shining and hal- movies bring back childhood memories.
@coventrygardens Being a huge horror movie fan, i've been watching and studying pretty much all of the great horror classics all the way from the 1920's-80's for most of my life and Halloween is certainly one of the best that's ever been made. I thought the series really started to go downhill with part 5 though. My top faves of all time are Creepshow,The Thing, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Psycho, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Nightmare on Elm St.,The Shining & Poltergeist.
@TheAltair4 i like h & h2 a great deal. h3 was pretty good, but the name was deceptive. h4 was pretty good too. h5 was pretty good, except that some of it dealt briefly with the cult of thorn, which was prominent in h6. i think bringing in the cult was a real bad idea. h20 was almost good, but it seemed inconsistent with previously made movies, and i didn't finish watching the next 1, and i didn't see any of the remakes. i think the series went downhill because they made myers seem immortal.
@TheAltair4 you say you watched horror films from the 1920s. i guess you recall the silent movies with lon chaney sr., and the movie "nosferatu". "phantom of the opera" with chaney sure was interesting. hey, imagine if they were to make a silent version of "the shining" or "halloween". oh boy. i guess i can handle a silent version of those films, provided that they have music in it. a few days ago, i learned that the opening music for "the shining" was based on something much much older.
@coventrygardens The main theme was a variation of the 13th century Latin Catholic hymn "Dies Irae". I'm a huge Lon Chaney Sr. fan and The Phantom of the Opera is my all time favorite silent horror classic. He was a true genius with makeup and blew me away with that film as well as The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Nosferatu, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari are silent faves of mine as well. Metropolis is my fave silent sci-fi classic.The Shining&Halloween would be cool silent.
@TheAltair4 yea, i read about "dies irae", which means "day of wrath". if i remember rightly, the opening words were "dies irae. dies illa solvet saeclum in favilla teste david cum sybilla." i had heard those words spoken before, but they were played to a tune that was somewhat different from the theme in "the shining", & thus when i 1st heard the words, i didn't realize that it had anything to do with "the shining". there were likely many variations of the tune & choice of music instruments.
WOW actual unused footage from one of Kubrick's films? that's so rare! this is awesome, thanks so much for uploading... that shot of jack rising up is unbelievably disturbing.
@GrouchyBourbonFilms Shining as far as I know went through several cuts and editings before it was released in its actual and final edition that we all got acquaitance of... wish i could come across the original and uncut edition that clip is off of
Does anyone notice how the "T face" has perspective? As if it is on the outside edge of a wide angle lense. Kubrick filmed faces like this a lot in ACO.
Oddly enough, i remember the U.S. version had a british announcer and even said the tag line, "Masterpeace of Modern Horror." Other than that...EXACTLY the way i remember it, back when i was only 10. this ad the music with screaming ghosts and that face on the "T" of the logo was more than enough to give me nightmares for years to come.
Awesome TV spot for an awesome film. For those wondering what the tagline is that is partially missing, it's "The tide of terror that swept America is here."
anyone know where the US commercial can be found? i was 9 years old when i saw it on tv and it scared the hell out of me. the shot of jack limping through the snow with the axe, and wendy carlos haunting synth version of berlioz's "witches sabbath" were burned in my memories forever. an awesome film and true art on celluloid.
This is the same commercial as the one that ran in the U.S. The only difference is the U.S. ad didn't show Danny riding through the halls. Everything else is the same.
Rachel Elkind produced those spooky "voices" you hear in the music with Wendy Carlo's synth. those voices did me in. i always thought that was the voice of the face on the "T" of the logo.
Yes, I remember this . I was 8 years old when the commercial came on TV. It was scary! I remember thinking the movie was about some crazy man with an axe chasing people in the woods & snow. The music was scary. The scenes were scary. And it made me want to see it. I remember my sister & my cousin being scared too. I always wanted to see it again & I was too disappointed that the DVD did not include it. I bought it for that reason.
@tylerisbeautiful I agree The Shining is the best movie ever made! And Jack Nicholson is the best actor ever and Stanley Kubrick is the best director ever!
Were film promos like this a rare occurance on British TV in the early 80's? Watching it now in this day and age, it seems odd that they would go through the trouble of advertising a major film like this and only show it in London!
At long last! A quick note...The film opened in the U.S. in May, but it was definitely closer to September or October when this aired in the UK. BTW, I go under a different name on the site, but I was one of the people in the initial conversation about this on the IMDb thread where it was first discovered. I've posted about this ad for years to no avail. Now I know that the different footage I always remembered wasn't just my imagination. Thanks for separating it from the original video.
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NostalgiNorden 3 days ago
Fuck me Jacks face is scary!
twangyeh 2 weeks ago
holy shit the trailer was creepier than the actual movie.the music is pretty disturbing too.they dont make the trailers,or the movies, as good as this anymore!
sindydoll35 2 weeks ago
i've been looking for the actual trailer shown on tv for years. I remember seeing this back in 1980 when i was 4. Man i wish i could go back and watch this in the theaters today. Same with EXORCIST, JAWS, SUPERMAN and many more.
msmithstud 1 month ago
brilliant. useing unused footage for the promo to make the real movie seem more out of place..
markfreemon 1 month ago
@markfreemon Actually, they used alternate takes because it was cheaper back then to just use leftover footage rather than reprint the pieces of film that were used in the final cut. This was before film was digitally scanned and edited with computers or tapes.
ClayDuMaw 2 days ago 3
@ClayDuMaw interesting.
markfreemon 2 days ago
@markfreemon Yeah it's pretty cool. You'd be surprised at how often you'll see this sort of thing in old tv spots.
ClayDuMaw 2 days ago
Jack's face at 0:24 is scarier than it was in the movie
0180917 2 months ago
Wow,nicholson looked just like d'onofrio right before and after he murders in full metal jacket.Those stares and movements make them look like a human raptor or something,really creepy.
MrKUBRICKIAN 2 months ago
The music seems to have more moaning
Sean86676 3 months ago
@Sean86676 What you hear there is the last part of the theme music. It was cut from the opening scene, since it was shorter than the complete music.
bennoach 3 months ago
Can anyone tell me what the deal was with the ending face at :26
Sean86676 3 months ago
@Sean86676 It's a different take that was cut out. Actually, it looks creepier than the "Here's Johnny" take that was kept in.
bennoach 3 months ago
This guys voice scares me and the yellow pic at the end too
Sean86676 3 months ago
Thanks for posting.
DR729er 4 months ago
Duvall is talented in this! The american version of this ad, BTW, was better!
Bestmanme08 4 months ago
I'd see this commercial when the movie came out in San Franciso. A local station would play it at around 11:00pm and I was always freaked out because I thought Shelly Long was like a witch or something going up the stairs with the knife. I was 10 yrs.old
clintbronson5 4 months ago
@clintbronson5 Shelly Duvall--not Shelly Long!
Bestmanme08 4 months ago
@Bestmanme08 Whoa! What was I thinking. Even the commercial say's Duvall.
clintbronson5 4 months ago
The music sounds like someone is screaming through it
ddraven 4 months ago
Every scene I saw in this I remember from the movie, so I don't know how it includes things NOT released in the final movie. LOL
tall32guy 5 months ago
@tall32guy It features different TAKES, not scenes. :06 is a different take, :18 is a different take, :21 is a different take, :23 wasn't even in the movie, and :24 is a different take.
FixiousMaximus 5 months ago 5
@FixiousMaximus The other tv spot had the skeletons sitting in the lobby.
johnny10301968 3 months ago
@FixiousMaximus you are correct sir.
philsfan97 2 months ago
@FixiousMaximus You're right they're alternate takes -- but every shot here is in the movie -- unless you're referring to the truncated version released in the UK, which I've never seen.
misterarkadin 2 days ago
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BarLoyale 5 months ago
I actually like the shot of Jack rising up after killing Hallorann. It seems more twisted that he smirks as if he momentarily quenched his thirst for his first kill. The one in the film is great, too, but it seems more in lieu with other psychopathic murderers in movies.
AsaNisiMasa1963 6 months ago 2
@AsaNisiMasa1963 "in lieu"? do you mean "in line"?
VitalemRecords 4 months ago
0:23 is great. it shows jack chopping through the door panel that is closest to wendy, while it seems that the other panel had already been chopped out. this wasn't shown in the movie. the movie showed jack chopping the other panel, the one farthest from wendy, and yet a later seen in the movie showed the door as if both panels had been chopped out. apparently the scene shown in the trailer was deleted even though the movie showed the result of that scene.
coventrygardens 6 months ago
Considering that Kubrick later ordered all of his unused and discarded takes from all of his films to be destroyed (read: incinerated in an industrial lot), this is all we'll have left over from the movie. Too bad he left us before DVD 's took off, and before he did that to his outtakes!
ShadesBelow03 6 months ago
Please never take this off
JennyAJoyner 7 months ago
WHATS UP WITH THAT TERRIFYING FACE EMBEDDED IN THE LOGO....IS THAT DANNY???.....SHIT....I HOPE NOT......DANNY AIN'T LOOKIN' TOO HOT......DOWNRIGHT UNCOMFORTABLE.....LOL...
TETTSUUO 8 months ago
i never liked the voice over guy's voice in this one.. it seems too high pitched, i wish it was scarier.
seran99 9 months ago
@seran99 yea, it sounds a bit high pitched. also, something else seems strange about the voice. the accent doesn't sound to me like what i would regard as an english accent. the accent sounds pretty much like what i have, which is common in the northern u.s. and canada. though the advertisement was for england, maybe they picked a voice-over guy that was from the u.s. or canada.
coventrygardens 6 months ago
0:24 "Problem, officer?"
Deavi783 9 months ago 3
I remember a trailer very similar to this airing in the US when I was a child. The images are burned in my mind because I used to go running from the living screaming when it came on TV. The beautiful and terrifying score along with the image of Nicholson hobbling through the snow with that fireman's axe is powerful in my mind and wonder where the American version of this trailer is.
tommyrocket 9 months ago
@tommyrocket i was born in late 1967, and i recall a trailer very much like this on tv back when the movie first came to the theatre where i lived, near detroit. it might be the same trailer that is shown here, except that it wouldn't have had that voice mentioning london. the trailer spooked me back then. i have strong memories of the scene where the creature is running through the snow. i thought the creature was a monster. i didn't realize the creature was a little boy until i saw the movie.
coventrygardens 7 months ago
@tommyrocket i think the american version was just like this one, aside from the voice-over that advertizes locations where the movie could be seen. if the voice-over is regarded as part of the trailer, then the u.s. likely had tons of trailers advertizing the different areas that were showing the movie. i'd like to find a trailer with no voice-over. the voice-over interferes with the music.
coventrygardens 6 months ago
Very Cool, promo, interesting to see the some of the cuts of the shining, now I can somewhat of why Mr. Kubrick choose not to use them, the one with Jack after killing Hallorman and the longer version of the Here's Johnny scene, but very cool to post it.
amy2345 10 months ago
Kubrick is known for discarding the unused takes... So, this is probably one of the only places you'll see alternate takes. He wants the final version of the film to be the 'only' version. I believe that in the case of The Shining, only 2% of the entire developed film ever made it to screen...
clashingtyrants 10 months ago 2
Wow! At 0:23 you actually get a glimpse of the deleted footage of Jack chopping through the second panel of the bathroom door. Too freakin cool!
TheAltair4 11 months ago 5
@TheAltair4
I know and it's cut from the film, it's a creepy TV Spot.
Johnlindsey289 11 months ago 3
@Johnlindsey289 Agreed. And the fact that it is so incredibly rare to see any unused footage from a Kubrick film makes this particular TV spot all the more special, i think.
TheAltair4 11 months ago 3
@TheAltair4 I always wondered if Kubrick cut out that panel himself to get a different camera angle, or if Jack chopped it down. Nice to have an answer :)
FixiousMaximus 11 months ago 3
@FixiousMaximus Yeah, that always kind of bothered me too. It was such a glaring continuity error in the film that had me puzzled for so long. But here is the actual visual proof that the scene was originally longer.
TheAltair4 11 months ago 3
@TheAltair4 ha!! i just now noticed your comment there. you were one of those whose comments made me realize about that 2nd panel, thereby inspiring me to make that video demonstrating the continuity flaw, and then you commented on my video. when you commented on my video, you likely didn't realize that your comment at THIS video helped inspire me to make the video on which you commented. i think kubrick deleted that scene because it was so much like the previous scene. he saved time.
coventrygardens 6 months ago
@coventrygardens HAHA! And how ironic it is that i was the very first one to comment on your video too. I'm very glad that i could help to inspire someone to make a video about something that interests me. It's also quite possible that Kubrick omitted that part of the scene because he finally decided that he wasn't completely satisified with something about the shot. He was the ultimate perfectionist, after all, and anything that he felt wasn't 100% flawless in execution he would scrap entirely.
TheAltair4 6 months ago
@TheAltair4 i can imagine things that may have gone wrong in making that scene. maybe jack and/or shelley started laughing because it was tough to keep pretending that jack was trying to kill wendy. maybe jack tried another one of those sarcastic remarks,& screwed it up. maybe the ax head got stuck in the door. tons of things could have happened. when i saw this trailer in 1980, when i was 12 or 13 , i thought the creature running through the snow was a monster, but it turned out to be danny.
coventrygardens 6 months ago
@coventrygardens Yeah,a lot of things can and often do go wrong on film productions no matter the size or the budget. As a kid i remember seeing a short behind the scenes clip of Jack, Shelley and the entire crew laughing and cutting up on the set right after Kubrick yelled "CUT!" for that scene. It was from some horror documentary that was broadcast on network t.v. back in the very early 90's if i'm remembering correctly. I wish that i could remember what the title of that show had been called.
TheAltair4 6 months ago
@TheAltair4 there would have been many times when it would have been hard for the actors to avoid giggling. like when jack mentioned the little pigs. i guess you were too young ( or non-existent ) to have seen the shining soon after it was released. i read the novel ( or part of it ) right before seeing the movie in 1980 or 1981. it would have been nice if kubrick had kept some deleted scenes around. he could have made a movie that consisted of deleted scenes from movies he had made.
coventrygardens 6 months ago
@coventrygardens I was around when it was released but i have no real memory of having seen it in the theater because i was just a baby. My parents would always take me with them to the theater along with my older brother when i was little because i never fussed or cried during the film like most babies do. They told me that i had slept through most of it just as i had also done during Popeye and Flash Gordon. My first actual memory of it is when i saw it on cable t.v. in late 83, when i was 4.
TheAltair4 6 months ago
@TheAltair4 after i saw the shining in 1980, i occasionally saw bits of it on tv, but i didn't spend much time looking at it or talking about it until about 3 weeks ago when i decided to take another look at it. right before i got back into examining the shining, i had been examining the movies with the name "halloween". i had seen the early "halloween" movies years ago, but i didn't see the later movies till the last few weeks. both the shining and hal- movies bring back childhood memories.
coventrygardens 6 months ago
@coventrygardens Being a huge horror movie fan, i've been watching and studying pretty much all of the great horror classics all the way from the 1920's-80's for most of my life and Halloween is certainly one of the best that's ever been made. I thought the series really started to go downhill with part 5 though. My top faves of all time are Creepshow,The Thing, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Psycho, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Nightmare on Elm St.,The Shining & Poltergeist.
TheAltair4 6 months ago
@TheAltair4 i like h & h2 a great deal. h3 was pretty good, but the name was deceptive. h4 was pretty good too. h5 was pretty good, except that some of it dealt briefly with the cult of thorn, which was prominent in h6. i think bringing in the cult was a real bad idea. h20 was almost good, but it seemed inconsistent with previously made movies, and i didn't finish watching the next 1, and i didn't see any of the remakes. i think the series went downhill because they made myers seem immortal.
coventrygardens 6 months ago
@TheAltair4 you say you watched horror films from the 1920s. i guess you recall the silent movies with lon chaney sr., and the movie "nosferatu". "phantom of the opera" with chaney sure was interesting. hey, imagine if they were to make a silent version of "the shining" or "halloween". oh boy. i guess i can handle a silent version of those films, provided that they have music in it. a few days ago, i learned that the opening music for "the shining" was based on something much much older.
coventrygardens 6 months ago
@coventrygardens The main theme was a variation of the 13th century Latin Catholic hymn "Dies Irae". I'm a huge Lon Chaney Sr. fan and The Phantom of the Opera is my all time favorite silent horror classic. He was a true genius with makeup and blew me away with that film as well as The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Nosferatu, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari are silent faves of mine as well. Metropolis is my fave silent sci-fi classic.The Shining&Halloween would be cool silent.
TheAltair4 6 months ago
@TheAltair4 yea, i read about "dies irae", which means "day of wrath". if i remember rightly, the opening words were "dies irae. dies illa solvet saeclum in favilla teste david cum sybilla." i had heard those words spoken before, but they were played to a tune that was somewhat different from the theme in "the shining", & thus when i 1st heard the words, i didn't realize that it had anything to do with "the shining". there were likely many variations of the tune & choice of music instruments.
coventrygardens 6 months ago
WOW actual unused footage from one of Kubrick's films? that's so rare! this is awesome, thanks so much for uploading... that shot of jack rising up is unbelievably disturbing.
OKO9Productions 1 year ago 9
it seems as though the shot of jack rising after killing dick hallorran is that of a different take
GrouchyBourbonFilms 1 year ago 2
@GrouchyBourbonFilms Yeah, there are several different takes seen in this promo.
FixiousMaximus 1 year ago 2
@FixiousMaximus With Kubrick directing there were hundreds of takes to choose from!
Panorama1981 5 months ago
@GrouchyBourbonFilms Shining as far as I know went through several cuts and editings before it was released in its actual and final edition that we all got acquaitance of... wish i could come across the original and uncut edition that clip is off of
FenderPrestigionBass 5 months ago
@FenderPrestigionBass Those weren't shots that were "CUT OUT" of the movie. They were DIFFERENT takes of the SAME ACTIONS. Come on, people?
VitalemRecords 4 months ago
@VitalemRecords i wasn't referring to that one in particular, but the whole movie was heavily edited two or even three times
FenderPrestigionBass 4 months ago
That was a little creepy. Jack Nicklson with the ax. I remebmer this trailer. I was 14.
leapingcat 1 year ago 5
I am looking for a similar version released in America.....with a voice over by the guy that did "Jaws".
redfistaor 1 year ago 5
@redfistaor I also wonder about the American version of this trailer because I remember running from the room in terror when it came on TV.
tommyrocket 9 months ago 2
Thanks for uploading this!
Chonson 1 year ago 15
I remember this trailer but with a different narration (localized for US audiences) and a different voice
Malocosa 1 year ago
Does anyone notice how the "T face" has perspective? As if it is on the outside edge of a wide angle lense. Kubrick filmed faces like this a lot in ACO.
StanleyKu 1 year ago
where did you find this?!?
moviedudeinc 1 year ago 4
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efan64 1 year ago
Oddly enough, i remember the U.S. version had a british announcer and even said the tag line, "Masterpeace of Modern Horror." Other than that...EXACTLY the way i remember it, back when i was only 10. this ad the music with screaming ghosts and that face on the "T" of the logo was more than enough to give me nightmares for years to come.
DerekBayRoberts1 1 year ago
pretty creepy tv spot
Sefco26 1 year ago
Awesome TV spot for an awesome film. For those wondering what the tagline is that is partially missing, it's "The tide of terror that swept America is here."
JMaxwell85 2 years ago 2
anyone know where the US commercial can be found? i was 9 years old when i saw it on tv and it scared the hell out of me. the shot of jack limping through the snow with the axe, and wendy carlos haunting synth version of berlioz's "witches sabbath" were burned in my memories forever. an awesome film and true art on celluloid.
dotmafia 2 years ago
it was on here at one time, then some company i have never heard of took it down.
efan64 2 years ago
This is the same commercial as the one that ran in the U.S. The only difference is the U.S. ad didn't show Danny riding through the halls. Everything else is the same.
cybelesreverie 2 years ago
@dotmafia
Rachel Elkind produced those spooky "voices" you hear in the music with Wendy Carlo's synth. those voices did me in. i always thought that was the voice of the face on the "T" of the logo.
DerekBayRoberts1 1 year ago
Yes, I remember this . I was 8 years old when the commercial came on TV. It was scary! I remember thinking the movie was about some crazy man with an axe chasing people in the woods & snow. The music was scary. The scenes were scary. And it made me want to see it. I remember my sister & my cousin being scared too. I always wanted to see it again & I was too disappointed that the DVD did not include it. I bought it for that reason.
philpomella 2 years ago 2
I've been searching for this trailer for a while. It also aired in the states, not just the UK. I remember it scaring the crap out of me!
starlust84 2 years ago
the shining is the best movie ever made
tylerisbeautiful 2 years ago 3
@tylerisbeautiful I agree The Shining is the best movie ever made! And Jack Nicholson is the best actor ever and Stanley Kubrick is the best director ever!
2PacJoel 1 year ago 4
I haven't seen this since I was 7!
StanleyKu 2 years ago
FINALLY, I've been looking for this since 1980! They didn't include it on the DVD release.
thx291 2 years ago 15
i kno
tylerisbeautiful 2 years ago
Maybe it's the alternate takes shown in it, but this TV spot is genuinely chilling for some reason.
watcherfilmsinc 2 years ago
Were film promos like this a rare occurance on British TV in the early 80's? Watching it now in this day and age, it seems odd that they would go through the trouble of advertising a major film like this and only show it in London!
welshfilmbuff 2 years ago
At long last! A quick note...The film opened in the U.S. in May, but it was definitely closer to September or October when this aired in the UK. BTW, I go under a different name on the site, but I was one of the people in the initial conversation about this on the IMDb thread where it was first discovered. I've posted about this ad for years to no avail. Now I know that the different footage I always remembered wasn't just my imagination. Thanks for separating it from the original video.
cybelesreverie 2 years ago 4
Hey, I'm EvanVolm on IMDb. Pretty exciting find.
FixiousMaximus 2 years ago 4