The Shining - Pantry Scene

Grady lets Jack out.

[daisychain]

This is the key scene in the whole film. Everything else can be explained as Jack's insane hallucinations, but who unlocks the pantry door? it adds so much to the film.

[Tres_Nueve]

"I and others" is probably the scariest line in the film.

[alicegraham]

Grady: "Some of the ghouls and I are a little concerned that the project isn't moving as much as planned."
Jack: "Can't murder now, eating."

[tvlar]

According to Kubrick in an interview, the moment Grady lets Jack out is when the audience is supposed to understand that supernatural elements are at work here. He also mentions a story where a paranoid poker player accuses someone of cheating, and in the end you find out they really were cheating, and he used that concept in The Shining. Just because Jack's going crazy doesn't mean nothing supernatural is happening.

[Bsaunders]

I like how Jack wakes up and calls for Wendy like he's gained his sanity back but when grady is the one who answers he seems to slip right back into insanity

[nope]

he could of survived in that pantry for the whole winter honestly.

[hari-xofm]

The door opening by itself is quite a revealing scene in the movie which finally tells us that Jack was not hallucinating and was in fact being recruited by hotel's demons all along.

[ceoofworldpeace]

"Who unlocks the door?"

The hotel did.

As Mr. Hallorann said, some places shine like people. Jack literally sold his soul for a drink and the hotel did the rest. Once he made that connection and once he went into Room 237, the hotel became "alive."

[MilosRS_]

"... Your wife appears to be stronger than we imagined, Mr. Torrance. Somewhat more... resourceful."

[goodtogomofo]

The hotel releases Jack. The hotel is the monster and it wants Danny. The hotel tricks Jack into believing Wendy and Danny are against him. All the ghosts you see in The Shining exist because of the hotels power. In the book, the hotel is characterized as the bad guy, not the ghosts or even Jack.

[lopey]

Kubricks work is just so damn good. I have never, NEVER, watched another horror movie that made me truly stop to think what its all about.

[ryblinkhopkinson]

The incredible acting on display here yet again. Grady sounds nothing like he did in the bathroom scene before. He now sounds unmerciful, demonic and calculating trying to get inside Jacks head. I love it

[TheTruth-cyle]

When we first meet Grady he is a servant and very deferential to Jack. But gradually the tables are turned and Grady becomes the boss whom Jack is eager to please.

[elsrdick]

"You give your word on that, do you Mr. Torrence?"

Man, Grady means business... he sure sounds threatning when he says that

[cj]

The damn ghost let him out... creepy as hell.

[MMAfighter]

i never understood how perishable items would last from October till May. Btw, I love the sound of the wind howling all through hotel. It shows how isolated the family is.

[HeilAmarth]

Amazing performance by "Mr. Grady".

[MrTWICETHEPRESHA]

*I always thought that this scene could have been made even more scary if when Grady asks; ‘You give your word?’, Jack just nods and doesn’t say anything. Then Grady would say ‘Very well’. That way it would tell us that the house and ghosts are watching him the whole time, even in a confined pantry*

[LuxAeterna]

You've got to admire the dedication of Philip Stone who literally became a hotel for a year to make this scene work.

[john]

The howling wind... The sound of the unlocking door... I get CHILLS