the shining

We live in a world where commercial directors speak (and breathe and live) the same pop culture language as the people they've been hired to peddle all kinds of products to. The result: television advertisements have gotten more clever, more specific, and most importantly, more ready to become instant viral sensations on the internet. A new IKEA commercial, whose release in the chilly weeks of October is no coincidence, cleverly parodies one of the most famous horror movies of all time and it's pretty cool.

What a difference a director makes: the thought of a prequel to 'The Shining' makes us roll our eyes hard, but the thought of Mark Romanek directing a prequel to 'The Shining' makes our ears perk up. If you are going to make a prequel to one of the coldest and weirdest horror movies of all time, you might as well hire one of the coldest and weirdest directors working today...

When one of America’s most prolific writers sits down to work on a novel, what do you suppose he listens to, if anything? If you said bands like Metallica, and Anthrax, pat yourself on the back, because you are correct! In a interview in The Atlantic, the novelist who brought us The Shining, The Stand, and many other horror novels, Stephen King also says he isn’t much of an Ozzy Osbourne or B