Goofs

During the long shot of the Overlook Hotel in the beginning (right before The Interview title card), the maze cannot be seen, though throughout the rest of the movie it is rather close to the hotel.

When Jack is using the ax to break through the door, he only breaks through one of the recessed panels and says, "Here's Johnny!" But when he hears the snowmobile and turns, and the shot changes, two of the panels are gone without him using the ax on them.

When Jack is being interviewed for the job, there are numerous cuts between him and Ullman. If you look at the desk during the interview, you will see a pen that seems to dance across the desk, it keeps moving on the desk every time there is a cut between Jack and the man.

When Wendy visits Jack in the lobby while he is typing (where he gets very agitated that she has interrupted him, approx. 45 minutes into the film) he rips the current page from the typewriter and never reloads a new one; when she walks away and he resumes typing, (with no breaks in the dialogue/action) there is a new page already loaded.

When Wendy is explaining Danny's injury to the doctor, she says that at the time of the incident, Jack promised never to drink again and he's been sober for five months. Later, when Jack is describing the incident to the bartender, he says it happened "three goddamn years ago!"

In the game room, a US flag is hung vertically on the wall, but with the blue corner at the top right, instead of the proper top left position.

A caption reads "THURSDAY" and then shortly afterwards we see Wendy and Danny watching The Road Runner Show (1966) with its distinctive theme song. In the late 1970s that show played only on Saturday mornings.

If the area gets 20 feet of snow in the winter and the storm is the worst they'd seen in years, the snow in the hedge maze would be far too deep for Danny and Jack to run around in, especially when you see it piled up in 30 foot drifts up to the roof of the hotel.

However, the maze could've kept the snow from piling up, just like it happens in a forest if the trees are thick enough and won't let the snow go through.

When Jack goes to the lounge, he asks Lloyd for a bourbon on the rocks, Lloyd serves him Jack Danial's which is not considered a bourbon, but a Tennessee sipping whiskey, albeit having the same recipe as a bourbon.

There are several large windows along a wall in the master bedroom of the caretaker's quarters. However, these windows cannot exist based on the architecture of the Overlook as seen from the external shot when Wendy pushes Danny out the bathroom window and down the snow drift. This is one of many intentional impossibilities in the architecture of the Overlook. Among others, there are doors where no room can exist, hallways that are impossible and stairways that could lead nowhere. This is to make the Overlook appear more labyrinthine and out-worldly.

There is no way that the huge pile of the Torrance's luggage (as seen when they first arrive at the Overlook Hotel) would fit in a Volkswagen Beetle.

The song played in the ballroom scenes is "Midnight, the Stars, and You," which wasn't recorded, by Ray Noble and his Orchestra and sung by Al Bowlly, until 1934, 13 years after the scene takes place. However this fits with the recurring theme of a time-warp paradox.

When Jack Torrance is at his appointment with Mr. Ullman, he talks about the tragedy that took place during the winter of 1970. Here's a quote of the conversation: Mr. Ullman: "My predecessor in this job hired a man named Charles Grady as the winter caretaker. He came up with his wife and two little girls of about 8 and 10." Later in the movie, we see multiple shots of Charles Grady daughters "ghosts" talking to Danny. Some viewers are confused because the girls are dressed identically, and thus assume them to be identical twins, and think that the two-year age gap is a goof. But one girl is taller than the other and has a differently-shaped face, so they are not twins. However, it may be worth noting that while the characters are not supposed to be twins, they were in fact played by identical twin sisters, Louise and Lisa Burns, both born in 1968.

The first time we see Jack's typewriter at the Overlook Hotel, it is a small white typewriter. Later, when he is actually typing, it is a larger, blue typewriter. However it is entirely possible that Jack borrowed the blue typewriter from one of the offices.

When Wendy hits Jack over the head with the baseball bat on the staircase, the bat flexes, revealing it to be made of rubber.

[Around 02:08:40] When Jack strikes Hallorann in the chest with his axe, blood is seen gushing out from the injury a few frames before the axe actually makes contact with him.

During the job interview Ullman tells Jack that there is no skiing in the area, but in the first aerial shot of the hotel, to the left, a ski lift is clearly seen extending up the mountain.

The hedge maze that is supposedly behind the hotel is not visible during the aerial shot of the entire building at the beginning of the film.

When Wendy and Danny are watching television, there is no power or antenna/cable cords connected to the set.

During Jack's interview, Mr. Ullman explains that the hotel is open from May through October and then closes until the following May. Jack then says, "5 months of of peace is just what I want". He should have said, 7 months of peace since he will be the care taker during the time the hotel is closed. The hotel is open for 5 months and closed for 7.

In the final scene is seen in the photo that it was taken during the Ball of July 4th, 1921, while is listened "Midnight, the stars and you" by All Bowlly with Ray Noble's orchestra; this song was recorded in 1934.

When jack is in the ball room and when Grady s ghost spills his drinks on Jack s jacket and when Grady is about to take him to the men s room to clean Jack s jacket you can hear a woman in the background exhaling deeply once in a sexual way.

When Jack enters Mr. Ullman's office for the interview, you can see Kubrick's head and a crew member reflected in the window.

Shadows from camera equipment are occasionally visible on Danny's back when he is riding through the hotel corridors on his tricycle.

The Steadicam's shadow is briefly visible during the final chase through the maze.

When Jack is angry in the kitchen after his argument with Wendy, he knocks kitchen utensils off the worktops, a couple of steel tins hit and bounce back off the camera. You can clearly see Jack start to laugh, but he goes back into character as he walks down the hall.

[Around 02:08:19] When Hallorann arrives at The Overlook Hotel looking for the family, the overhead chandelier's pink lights are reflected off the camera lens on to the spot where his torso is in the shot.

The location in the film is supposed to be Colorado state in the United States. However, because the filming location was actually in England, all the television sets that can be seen in the movie have the distinctive European styling, especially the big black border around the picture tubes, and don't look like American television sets.

The light switches in the Overlook hotel are mounted high up on the wall, as is typically done in England. In American buildings, light switches are nearly always mounted down below the center of the wall.

The wooden shelving in the food storage room where Jack is locked up is built of British dimension lumber, the boards are smaller and have a different aspect ratio than the ubiquitous "2x4" boards likely to be used to build similar shelving in America.

Many of the fluorescent light fixtures in the Overlook hotel appear to be the 5 foot length that is common in England but not used in the USA. They are noticeably longer than the standard 4 foot tubes typically used in American buildings but clearly not long enough to be 8 foot, next most common size for general illumination.

Dick Hallorann (Scatman Crothers) is shown to possess "The Shining," a combination of telepathic and pre-cognitive abilities. However, he is somehow unable to foresee his own death at the hands of Jack when he arrives back at the Overlook.

This is different to the book, where Dick is able to sense his potential death in the near future.

Reference is made to the hotel being built in 1907-09 and that possibly there were Indian attacks on it during construction. The American Indian Wars were over by 1890.