What Would The Overlook Hotel In “The Shining” Actually Cost? Christopher Moore, September 26, 2013 Have you ever wondered what the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s The Shining might actually cost, if it were ever on the market? With the recent release of King’s sequel novel to The Shining called Doctor Sleep, the Movoto Real Estate Blog thought it might be interesting to do a property evaluation on the fictional haunted hotel that drove Danny Torrance’s father insane. Check out their results after the jump.Based on a lot of internet research and contact with the hotel that inspired King’s The Shining, Movoto came up with this fun fictitious listing for the scary property. If you’d like more details on how Movoto came up with the information for this imaginary listing, you can check out their blog article which breaks down how they researched and figured out the end result for the property.Stephen King’s novel Doctor Sleep is now available in bookstores and on Amazon. Publisher Simon and Schuster released this plot description for the book:On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless — mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky 12-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the ‘steam’ that children with the ‘shining’ produce when they are slowly tortured to death.Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him and a job at a nursing home where his remnant ‘shining’ power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes ‘Doctor Sleep.Here’s the teaser trailer they created for Doctor Sleep: Viral Marketing Doctor SleepMovotoOverlook HotelredrumStephen KingThe Shining
Viral Video of the Week: Avatar Wars December 27, 2009December 26, 2009We’ve already shown two great viral videos from this week (see them here and here), so I had to pull from the last two weeks to find this gem below. It’s a video parody that combines Avatar with several other films to show a trailer for a war of real… Read More
Video: “Godzilla” Director Teases ‘Very Big’ Plans For Comic-Con July 14, 2013We already know that Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ Godzilla is set to have some presence at Comic-Con. The monster remake opens in May of next year, and the San Diego convention this week is the perfect time to promote it. There is an off-site building that is sure to… Read More
Watch The First Six Minutes Of “The Upper Footage” May 6, 2014May 6, 2014Thanks in part to the relative IndieGoGo campaign success and its success on Viemo, the people behind The Upper Footage faux documentary have decided to reinvest in their passion project and release new marketing materials such as trailers, clips, an updated website, and introductory pieces. In light of this the… Read More