

Room 237
Some movies stay with you forever... and ever... and ever.
A subjective documentary that explores various theories about hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's classic film The Shining. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments.
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- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
- $259.8K
- Language
- English
- conspiracy theory
- filmmaking
- cinema history
- intense
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereNRSundance Film Festival23 Jan 2012
- Theatrical (limited)NR29 Mar 2013
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1526 Oct 2012
FranceFR
- Theatrical19 Jun 2013
IrelandIE
- Digital / OTT1525 Oct 2012
NetherlandsNL
- Digital / OTT16Netflix15 Apr 2015
SwedenSE
- Theatrical1528 Oct 2012
SwitzerlandCH
- Digital / OTT166 Aug 2012
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Room 237 was released on 26 October 2012.
Audience reviews
3- G6/10
Gareth Senior
7/29/2012
An intruiging documentary. If you've loved & watched "The Shining" many, many times, this doc will still show you things you never noticed before. The premise is that different theories about The Shining are examined. All of them start with an idea triggered by a single shot, but most fall apart as the originator attempts to expand and prove their theory. In the end, most of the theorists reveal themselves to be h…
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LastCaress1972
8/11/2013
"At the end of The Shining, he's reduced to a screaming ape, just like in the beginning of 2001 there are screaming apes." - John Fell Ryan Astonishingly, the above statement, as bizarre, irrelevant and as bereft of any further analysis as it is (and I haven't taken it out of context; there really IS no further analysis or conclusion mined from that sentence), is possibly the sanest, most rational sentence uttered…
- J6/10
j0ng
7/28/2017
This is a pretentious film with assertions that are way out in left field. The reason I gave it this score is my love for the original movie itself.
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