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#1. Director Stanley Kubrick kept a scrapbook full of famous Colorado murders and it appears in some scenes set at The Overlook.

#2. Though featured prominently in the film, there's no hedge maze in Stephen King's book.

#3. THE SHINING was one of the first movies to use Steadicam.

#4. And Stanley Kubrick used special NASA-built lenses.

#5. "Red Rum" was the name of a beloved British racehorse, which confused viewers in the U.K.

#6. The infamous axe Jack uses to terrorize Wendy is actually just made of fiberglass.

#7. At one point, the filmmaking team tried using pigs' blood in the elevator scenes. No surprise that it didn't really work.