Read more: How Kubrick made the lifts bleed in The Shining This is how Kubrick effectively owns up to his engineering of the biggest fakery in human history: via carpet samples. Weidner also claims the iconic hexagonal pattern found on the carpets in the Overlook Hotel were designed specifically to reference the Apollo 11 launching pads. Jack Nicholson peering through axed in door in lobby card for the film 'The Shining', 1980. It’s a conspiracy wrapped in a riddle wrapped in an enigma. One theory, however, outdoes all the others in terms of lunacy: theorist Jay Weidner claims that Stanley Kubrick littered The Shining with clues to suggest that he filmed the fake Moon landing for NASA in 1969. Several theories detailed in Room 237 are interesting, including a claim that the Native Americans on the hotel’s food cans suggest an underlying theme of American imperialism, and an interesting dissection with a dolly cam that proves that the spiralling architecture of The Overlook Hotel is, in fact, impossible. Read more: Why did Stephen King hate The Shining ? The Shining is the perfect film onto which to project such theories, because a) Stanley Kubrick was incredibly detail-oriented and never left anything to chance, and b) Stanley Kubrick is dead, therefore unable to disprove any of the crackpot conspiracies you’d care to sling at his movies. There are several bonkers theories on The Shining, nine of which are detailed in the excellent documentary, Room 237. Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, and Jack Nicholson in car on their way to resort in lobby card for the film 'The Shining', 1980.

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