Origin and Etymology of cabaret. French, from Medieval French dialect (Picard or Walloon), from Middle Dutch, alteration of cambret, cameret, from Medieval French dialect (Picard) camberete small room, ultimately from Late Latin camera â more at chamber.
The Stanley inspired horror novelist Stephen King to write The Shining. In 1974, King and his wife Tabitha spent one night in Room 217 while on vacation during their short residency in Boulder, Colorado.
For more Kubrick locations, see Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange and Eyes Wide Shut. Second Unit landscape shots from The Shining were used for the ending of Blade Runner on its initial release. The Shining location: the âOverlook Hotelâ: Timberline Lodge, Mount Hood, Oregon. Stanley Kubrickâs very free adaptation of the Stephen King novel sees blocked writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) going barmy in a creepy snowbound hotel.