As that beloved holiday from late October approaches, many turn to the all-time classics of the horror genre, including the 1980 Stephen King adaptation starring Jack Nicholson as an increasingly crazier hotel manager - and in a few years' time, the "Shining" Halloween won't be just about movie watching.
The Stanley Hotel, known in popular culture as the place King based his iconic Overlook Hotel on, has poured all kinds of homages to the horror where it stands best known as a landmark, with a horror film festival and "The Shining" Halloween visits - and now, also a horror museum!
The Stanley Hotel announced plans for the "Shining" Halloween museum, called the Stanley Film Center, through a press release published on PR News Wire, stating that this will be the first-ever horror themed museum, film archive and film production studio all at once, in a project that's asking $11.5 million worth of credit from the Regional Tourism Act of the State of Colorado, money that would be generated through film center sales tax.
As Rolling Stone reports, the complete budget for the development of this "The Shining" Halloween project is $24 million and it will include features such as a 500-seat auditorium, space for the Colorado Film School to set up some sort of educational program and a full 30,000 square feet of interactive museum.
According to Fox News, there's huge excitement over the Stanley Film Center, as there are already a number of big names attached to its Founding Board, including "Lord of the Rings" star Elijah Wood, writer-actor Simon Pegg and even iconic zombie director George A. Romero, all of whom are more than on board with the "Shining" Halloween project.
"I would love to have a home for which we could constantly come year-round and celebrate with other fans from around the world," Elijah Wood told the press. "There's really no better place for there to be a permanent home for the celebration of horror as an art form than the Stanley Hotel. It was practically built for it."
It's unclear whether there'll be an exposition dedicated to the Overlook Hotel's Room 237, but it'd definitely do wonders to the "Shining" Halloween vibe.
