80s horror · psychological horror · supernatural · isolation · snowbound setting · retro aesthetic · family drama · haunted hotel · descent into madness · suspense
Snowdrifts lie thick against the Overlook Hotel, burying the roads and sealing us in. I accepted the winter caretaker role, a chance for my family to start over. My wife Wendy and our young son Danny have unpacked in the cavernous, echoing suites. The hotel’s manager, Mr. Ullman, had a final caution before he left: a caretaker in the seventies lost his mind here. He killed his wife and daughters. I dismissed it as a grim local legend. But the quiet here is different—a listening kind of quiet.