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Unsettling photo from The Shining tracked down in Getty's archives
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Unsettling photo from The Shining tracked down in Getty's archives

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Apr 08, 2025
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Stanley Kubrick's film of The Shining concluded with a famously disturbing photo showing Jack Torrance (as performed by Jack Nicholson) at a 1921 party in the haunted Overlook Hotel. Alasdair Spark, a retired academic who specialized in conspiracy culture, tracked down the original in photo archives now owned by Getty.

"At last, it has been found. Follow…

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