Our room 217 at the haunted STANLEY HOTEL, APRIL 2011. In 1973, Stephen King (living in Boulder at the time) visited the Stanley, staying in 217. There were stories of ghosts at the Stanley - ghost children playing on the fourth floor, etc. - and King began to imagine a family hired as caretakers of a hotel, snowbound for the winter.
Of course the room doesn't look the same. It's not the same hotel they used in the 1980 film.. The Stanley Hotel is where Stephen King came up with the concept of the novel The Shining, but the Kubrick film wasn't shot there. Some scenes from the remake 1997 TV movie were shot there, but not room 217. In the TV film, room 217 is a middle room in a long hallway. In reality, it's at the end of the hallway.
ldchappell1 1 month ago