Watch: 30-Minute Documentary 'View From The Overlook: Crafting The Shining' With William Friedkin, Sydney Pollack, More

Younger audiences might know “The Shining” as the film that inspired one of the best “South Park” episodes of all time, but Stanley Kubrick’s haunting masterpiece is still shit-your-pants scary 35 years after its release, and there’s a lot more to its effectiveness than creepy English twin toddlers and the grossest indoor tidal wave in history. Let’s say you finally gave in to the hype and rented “The Shining” on a streaming service, or better yet, bought the Blu-ray from a brick-and-mortar video store. After a quick trip to the bathroom in order to change your underbritches, maybe you want to go online to find out more about the film, because you can’t stop thinking about it.

You want to know how this delicious bit of insanity was captured on celluloid, what other filmmakers and experts think about it, what the answers are behind the many bits of symbolism that’s scattered all around the film, and most importantly, what the hell the shot of a man in a dog suit giving head to the...