We Must Protect The Curious from Themselves

“And so I think Stanley retreated after Barry Lyndon. 

And he began working on a new kind of film, a film that had never been made before, a film that was made by a bored genius who had thoroughly emptied the jug of everything that could be done in filmmaking. And he was looking for the next thing. 

And what he did was he began reading Subliminal Seduction and a number of other books which were about how advertisers were injecting... injecting images, subliminal images, into advertising to sell products more. 

Suggestible trends. 

You know, there'll be an ad for Gilbey's Gin, and inside, the ice cubes will be various sex organs and things to add a subliminal appeal to the ad. Kubrick went to these advertisers, and he asked them what their methods were. 

And then he took those methods and he applied them to The Shining. 

Inside The Shining are hundreds of subliminal images and shot line-ups. 

And what these images are telling is an extremely disturbing story about sexuality. 

And the subtext of The Story, besides the other subtexts of The Story, is a story of haunted phantoms and demons who are sexually attracted to humans and are feeding off of them.”