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81K views · 3.9K reactions | Bringing the Overlook to life. A young Danny Lloyd, Jack Nicholson and Stanley Kubrick film The Shining's famed maze scene. | Stanley Kubrick | Facebook

The hedge maze scene in The Shining wasn’t just terrifying for audiences — it was a nightmare to film. The massive maze built on set at Elstree Studios was so disorienting that cast and crew members repeatedly got lost while shooting. It took over a month to capture the sequence, with temperatures soaring under the intense studio lights and actors often losing their sense of direction. By the end, even Stanley Kubrick reportedly admitted the maze felt eerily real — like it was playing tricks on