#but actually Jack and the Darkness herald walking steadily down a narrow hallway with their axes
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Reference to The Shining in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina 4.1
#Chilling Adventures of Sabrina#The Shining (1980)#Michelle Gomez#Shelley Duvall#Jack Nicholson#I find the parallels between Wendy and Mary very *very* interesting#(and also the parallel between Jack and an obsessively driven being of murderous darkness)#Because both Mary and Wendy are women pushed to their limit#mentally and emotionally exhausted with no one to support them#left to try and deal with overwhelming threats on their own#women whose gentleness is treated as weakness#women whose obvious anxiety is either dismissed or diminished or down right ignored#In the Shining in this moment#Wendy has a knife to protect herself which she uses to slash at Jack's hand when he tries to open the door through the hole he has made#notably however#Mary has no weapon#she has her wits#and those remind her of what she recently heard about beings of darkness and about not clinging to the light for safety#When I first noted this parallel I was only thinking about Wendy and Mary's direction#but actually Jack and the Darkness herald walking steadily down a narrow hallway with their axes#passing beneath centred round lights#is also nicely paralleled#If only the caos director had kept the shot framed centre#There is one tiny other thing which is the shot of Mary's face peering through the slightly open door#the way the wood frames her face somewhat close to how Jack's face is framed through the busted door#when he delivers the iconic HERE'S JOHNNY!#And tho it may well have been an intended thing it just doesn't serve the theme very well#cw violence#Mary Wardwell
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