Chula Vista

Ya. People had gotten use to movies that scared the bloody crap out of you.

The Exorcist - 1973
Jaws - 1975
The Omen - 1976
Halloween - 1978
Alien - 1979
Friday the 13th - 1980

The Shining comes along with tons of hype and there's only one stinking death in the whole movie and all these weird visuals and long stretches of pretty tedious stuff. But Kubrick knew what he was doing and that his film would end up being viewed as a total masterpiece. He just didn't want to cater to the masses right out of the gate.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”