Room 217

Room 217 a fictional location featured in The Shining franchise. It first appeared in the 1977 horror novel The Shining by author Stephen King. A version of the room appeared in the 1980 film adaptation of The Shining by director Stanley Kubrick where it was identified as Room 237. Room 217 also appeared in the 1997 television miniseries Stephen King's The Shining.

Description
Room 217 was a standard guest room located on the second floor of the Overlook Hotel in Colorado. The hotel itself had a dark history with many ghosts wandering its various hall. Room 217 was considered one of the most haunted rooms of all.

History
Many years ago, one of the guests who stayed in Room 217 was Lorraine Massey. An attractive, blonde-haired woman, she was known for seducing young men, usually bellhops, into her room and having sex with them. She eventually committed suicide in the bathtub of her room by slitting her wrists. Her spirit became one of the ghosts trapped in the hotel.

Years later, Jack Torrance was hired on as the winter caretaker of the hotel. He brought with him his wife, Wendy and young son, Danny. Danny was gifted with a psychic power known as "shining". He shared this power with hotel's resident chef, Dick Hallorann. Danny received a psychic impression of Room 217 and asked Hallorann about it. Dick knew the history of the room, but didn't want to frighten Danny, so he sternly warned him to keep clear of all the guest rooms - especially Room 217.

Whenever Danny came near the room however, he could feel the dark forces of the hotel reaching out to him. In one vision, he saw a fire hose that was mounted outside the room disengage itself from its clip and reach out for him like some sort of serpentine monster.

Notes & Trivia

 * In the 1980 The Shining feature film from 1980, Room 217 was re-named Room 237.


 * Actress Cynthia Garris - wife of director Mick Garris, played Lorraine Massey - the woman from Room 217 in the 1997 television miniseries.