The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado is primarily known as the hotel that inspired Stephen King's horror bestseller The Shining, but now it can add another item to its travel brochure as the world's "first horror-themed museum". That's right, the place that inspired King's classic book (though not Kubrick's film adaptation) is getting an even spookier makeover.
Already home to the horror-themed Stanley Film Festival, the hotel is also planning to incorporate a film center, which the organizers have said will include a $24 million museum, film archive, and film production studio compound. Now that gives me the heebie-jeebies.
