Happy Birthday, Hotel Horror Movies!
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 06.17.10 | 12:44 PM ET
Time to dust off a couple of classic DVDs for a very scary birthday celebration. Hitchcock’s “Psycho” has been scaring travelers in their motel showers for five decades this week, while “The Shining” turned 30 last month—the Atlantic’s James Parker visited the hotels that inspired Stephen King’s novel and Stanley Kubrick’s subsequent movie for the occasion.
Both movies made our list of 13 Great Travel Horror Movies a couple years back.