Pro tip: That famous deleted scene from The Shining with the chef's death was actually a reshoot

I keep seeing people online claim Kubrick cut it for pacing, but the documentary on the 4K release shows they reshot it because the original was too dark to see anything. Why do fans keep spreading the wrong version of the story?

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nguyen.tara8d ago

Wait, are you telling me the one time I actually remembered a movie fact correctly it turns out I was wrong this whole time? As someone who still tells people the bit about "Here's Johnny" being improvised, I guess I'm just doomed to spread bad movie trivia forever. Guess I'll go back to confidently misremembering plot details.

mila_flores88d agoMost Upvoted

Question whether this is really worth getting worked up over, @jana119 - it's just a movie scream.

jana1198d ago

...oh man, that's funny. I had a friend who swore up and down for years that the Wilhelm scream was from some old Western movie. He would tell everyone that, like, "oh yeah, that scream is from The Searchers or something." One day we were watching some documentary and it turns out it's from a movie called Distant Drums from 1951, not even a Western. He was so embarrassed, he didn't bring up movie trivia for like six months. Now he double checks everything on Wikipedia before he says it out loud. So yeah, you're definitely not alone in the "confidently wrong" club.