The Shining now has a piece of artwork to replicate one of its famous, iconic moments. The 1980 horror film was adapted from the celebrated Stephen King novel of the same name released three years prior. Directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, and Danny Lloyd, the film centers around the Torrance family during a snowy winter season when the patriarch Jack is hired as a caretaker for the secluded Overlook Hotel, which has a suspicious and repeated history.

While there are significant differences between the book and the movie that King mostly did not approve, The Shining is considered one of Kubrick’s best works as it has been added to the National Film Registry and continues to be the subject of multiple film analyses and evaluations. While there are certainly many unforgettable moments in the film, most fans remember the image of when Jack peeks his face through the opening of the bathroom door after having used an axe to break it down, where his wife Wendy is inside shrieking and holding a knife.

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Now on the online shopping website, biggarden, fans can purchase a sculpture of Nicholson’s character, Jack Torrance, during the climactic scene in the form of a bookend. The scene where Jack terrorizes his wife in the bathroom is known as the movie’s “Here’s Johnny” moment, a line improvised by Nicholson in tribute to the introduction of the late Johnny Carson, who was the host of The Tonight Show at the time. The face sculpture of Nicholson has a height of 18 centimeters and a length and width of 11 centimeters. The artwork, on which the pricing has drastically decreased, can be seen below:

The sculpture certainly captures Nicholson’s face in great detail, even getting down to the specific hair strands coming down on his forehead.  The artwork greatly resembles the “Here’s Johnny” moment and is a testament to the impact the film continues to have on viewers and filmmakers. Most notably, the scene has been nodded and reenacted multiple times in subsequent films and television shows, highlighting the admiration of that iconic moment, as well as Nicholson’s eccentric acting performance.

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Ever since its mixed release, The Shining has continued to garner many fans due to its style, originality, and memorable scenes. The film stands out from being a standard typical horror film due to its gradual terror throughout the movie, rather than providing the viewer with immediate jump-scares. The Kubrick masterpiece clearly continues to stand the test of time and having Nicholson’s scary face at the end of a row of books would just be another unconventional thing that would attribute with the irregularity that is The Shining.

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