Toy Story Carpet Shining

These references join other toy story nods to the film including sid s carpet in the original toy story film numerous 237 references and more.

Toy story carpet shining.

Sid who is the main antagonist of toy story lives in a house decorated with the same carpet design as the one featured on the second floor of the shining s overlook hotel its inclusion telegraphs pure dread to the shining fans mostly because just like danny and wendy buzz and woody are trying to escape a massive maze while pursued by a violent character. Toy story director lee unkrich runs the shining fan site the overlook hotel which contains a plethora of pictures and behind the scenes information about the film. If you re like us you d probably find any reference to stanley kubrick s the shining showing up in a toy story movie to be a bit odd. Toy story 3 garbage truck s license plate is rm237 a reference to the shining s dreaded room 237.

Sid s distinctive carpet toy story 1995 one of the most iconic images from stanley kubrick s filmography is of danny danny lloyd cycling through the halls of the shining s overlook hotel. One of those people who became obsessed with it was lee unkrich. The shining appears all over toy story. He also referenced the carpet in toy story 3.

All work and no play makes woody a dull toy. They re dark dark folks over at pixar in stanley kubrick s famous adaptation of stephen king s horror novel young danny torrence plays on the iconic. The shining came out in 1980 and it influenced a lot of future filmmakers. Film and furniture regulars will know one of the original inspirations for this very website was the hexagonal patterned carpet in the shining s overlook hotel.

The creepy looking monkey watching the live footage on the daycare nursery surveillance cameras was always up to something. That s right movies like toy story finding nemo and even the recently released movie coco all have ties back to one of the most iconic horror movies of all time. Looking back on. On the same desk the monkey sat on there is a rather small box which has the same pattern of the carpet from sid s house and the overlook hotel on it.

Sid s carpet in toy story 3 is a large nod to the shining. Unkrich would go on to direct several pixar movies and in each and every one he does he. The shining horror easter eggs continued into toy story 3 in 2010. To check out more the shining references check.