the psychological than a story. This application is also found in the film where the film’s deception lies in the interwoven structure of truth and reality and vice versa.

With the film being based on a Stephen King novel, the audience knows right away that this is a horror story, but at the same time a tale of fantasy and magic. This is reinforced through the opening imagery of the film. As in most dreams, we have an omniscient point of view which is included in this shot. Here we soar through the air above the imposing and somewhat terrifying Colorado imagery, following the Torrance family’s car along a winding and never ending road. The viewer is being taken for a ride, figuratively as well as literally. The music, similar to banshee-like screeching, foreshadows a tale of evil and despair just as the gargantuan setting suggests an oppression or insurmountable feat that each character will face. Within these few opening minutes the dream ideology is established.

Along with Jack’s continuing decline into eccentricity and irritability, the film begins to take on a frightening quality after Danny ventures into Room 237 and comes back with having been almost strangled by a mad woman there. But how can this be if Jack, Wendy, and Danny are the only occupants of the hotel?

There are many times in the viewing of this film where truth is obscured by fantasy, especially in the scene where Danny rides past room 237 and sees for an instant the two little girls that were brutally murdered by their former caretaker father Delbert Grady. The falseness doesn’t lie particularly with this image but with character of Danny. How trustworthy is he to the audience? His telepathy or clairvoyant powers tend to sway the audience against him because these characteristics do not lend themselves into total credibility. However, this is only minute in comparison to the total dream effect in the film. How credible is the film’s entirety? What is the audience’s reception?

With sickening gore and terrorizing disturbances perpetrated by the principal character and the ghosts or extensions of the mind, the film moves to an outlandish but chilling climax where Jack is confronted with the action of murdering his son. Danny appears to represent reality, someone who can predict the future, whether warranted or not. Jack believes that killi

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