Stanley Kubrick’sThe scramble : Not the most tike - friendly movie ! But , as circumstance would have it , it ’s a favorite film of Pixar regular Lee Unkrich , who has direct or co - directed five Pixar features — includingToy Story 2and3;Monsters , Inc.;Finding Nemo ; andCoco — in addition to doing redaction employment on several others . As such , it ’s no surprisal ( or maybe it is ) that several references toThe Shining , from the obvious to the obscure , have sneak into Pixar ’s lineup over the long time . Here are nine of them .
1. SID’S DISTINCTIVE CARPET //TOY STORY(1995)
One of the most iconic figure of speech from Stanley Kubrick ’s filmography is of Danny ( Danny Lloyd ) cycling through the halls ofThe Shining ’s Overlook Hotel . That same iconic carpet can be constitute inToy Story , where it adorns the home of the plaything - torturer Sid . Unkrich , who was one of the editor in chief on the cinema , creditsthat picky Easter Egg to production fashion designer Ralph Eggleston .
2. THE NUMBER 237 //TOY STORY 3(2010)
Unkrich workedseveral referencesto the number 237 — the room in the Overlook Hotel where some particularly trippy thing go down forJack Torrance(Jack Nicholson)—intoToy Story 3 , which he direct . The permission plate on a scraps truck in one scene read RM237 ; Woody wink message a toy whose code name is Velocistar237 ; and the exemplar numeral of a security camera in Sunnyside Daycare is Overlook R237 .
3. THE SUNNYSIDE INTERCOM //TOY STORY 3(2010)
address of Sunnyside Daycare ’s security system : It sport an intercom that ’s an exact ( albeit animate ) extra of the one used by Wendy Torrance ( Shelley Duvall ) inThe Shining . Several substructure away from the intercom is a tissue corner , the pattern of which resembles that said carpeting pattern in the Overlook Hotel .
4. THE “KALINGA” TECHNIQUE //FINDING NEMO(2003) &TOY STORY 3(2010)
For bothToy Story 3andFinding Nemo , Unkrichaskedhis composers — Randy Newman and Thomas Newman , severally — to utilize the “ kalinga ” proficiency at particular moment where the consultation was mean to feel changeable . Favored by Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki , whose music was sport inThe glisten , the “ kalinga , ” per Unkrich , “ is when the violin actor tap their bows against the strings rather than strum . It ’s almost a gutsy audio . If everybody does that throughout the orchestra you get a crazy , almost insecty auditory sensation , it ’s so unsettling . ”
5. “HEEEEERE’S JOHNNY!” //FINDING NEMO(2003)
This one ’s light : InFinding Nemo , Bruce the shark echo Jack Nicholson ’s most far-famed stock fromThe Shiningwhen he snarls “ Heeeere ’s Brucey ! ”
6. JACK TORRANCE’S AXE //COCO(2017)
Early inCoco , there ’s a scene where Dante the dog suddenly wakes up from a forty winks . In the desktop , we see a normal - take care ax stick into a tree diagram trunk . An axe could just be an axe … were Unkrich not sitting in the conductor ’s chair . Earlier this year , in an consultation with Cinema Blend , heconfirmedthat the axe is in fact model after “ one of the axes fromThe beam . ”
7. REDRUM //COCO(2017)
In that same shot , right behind the axe , is a red metal storehouse drum , a quotation toREDRUM , Danny Torrance ’s favored idiomatic expression and ( er , spoilers forThe shine ? ) “ execution ” spell backward .
8. THE GRADY TWINS //COCO(2017)
AsCoco ’s Miguel runs through Frida Kahlo ’s underworld art studio , he passesa paintingof two girls who , per Unkrich , represent a “ Día de los Muertos - inspired version of the matching girls fromThe Shining . ”
9. APOLLO 11 //TOY STORY(1995)
Stick with us for a moment on this one , as it ’s not as straight as the other unity : Toy Story ’s Buzz Lightyear was named after Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin , who was the 2nd man to set foot on the lunation . Apollo 11 looms large as part of the mythology ofThe Shining , as there are famously some conspiracy theorists who believe that Kubrick falsify the moon landing and usedThe Shiningas a quasi - confession . ( At one point Danny Torrance wears an Apollo 11 sweater , which Lee Unkrich nowowns . ) This is very likely a coincidence , not an unlimited nod toThe Shining , but kick in the floor ofThe Shiningappreciation in the Charles Francis Hall of Pixar , it ’s not a stretch to trust that someone at least got a chuckle out of it .
