If it weren't for its history, The Stanley Hotel would be perfectly charming
In suite 237 at the Stanley, according to "legend", Stephen King and his wife Tabitha experienced extraordinary phenomena , such as the opening of his luggage (without anyone having admitted to entering the room) and a King's own terrible nightmare , in which he saw his son asking him for help without being able to do anything to rescue him. When he woke up from it, he walked through the hotel until he ended up on the fourth floor and it seems that he heard strange sounds and even he watched the rug come to life and began to move.
That face...
These episodes led him to write the bestseller about him, whose hotel takes the name of Overlook but is clearly inspired by the Stanley. However, when shooting the movie, **Kubrick decided it would be best to use the Timberline Lodge**, a ski resort. Everyone knows that King was not very happy with the results of the film, so, to make up for it, he wrote ** a miniseries of the same title ** that was actually shot in this lodging in Colorado.
Kubrick preferred the Timberline
Thanks to this, in addition to different paranormal episodes allegedly reported by the hotel's own staff , the Stanley already has a ** Ghost Tour , a Paranormal Investigation Tour , a Doctor Sleep pack** (in which they give you the sequel to The Shining) , a "Ghostly Adventure" pack (which gives you the possibility to sleep in" haunted rooms "), a fortune teller who claims to see your future... As well as hosting an annual Horror Film Festival under her own name.
However, now he has decided to go a step further and build a new building in which there will be room a horror museum, a movie studio, and a movie archive. Among other facilities, the place will have an auditorium, with traveling exhibitions ( like this one from Charlie Adlard's The Walking Dead ), a sound studio and a space for editing and post-production. The idea is that this complex opens non-profit , and that it be used above all with the Colorado Film School in Denver to carry out educational projects. And on his founding council are the actors Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings) and simon pegg (ZombiesParty) !
In the surroundings of the Stanley they will build the building for the Museum of Terror
The "only" thing that separates this colonial-style complex built in 1909 from its "terrifying" projects is eleven and a half million dollars , which they hope to get from the Colorado Department of Tourism. The idea is to be able to reach the total amount of 24 million dollars and thus become a "year-round horror destination".
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