It was the one where Danny, the little kid, was playing in the snow outside the Overlook Hotel, and he found one of those big concrete tubes that kids like to climb through, and he got in, and suddenly he became aware of something else that was in the tube there with him: a kid who had climbed in there and couldn’t get out, who had died there, who clamored toward Danny with a pathos that bordered on revulsion and then surpassed it, clearly wanting Danny to die there, too, to stay with him, forever…
Ian found himself simultaneously wondering why Kubrick didn’t put that in the film and thinking, Momma, get me outta here, this place is starting to give me the creeps! It was leather on leather, but his touch tingled her skin for a moment.