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We Found Jack Nicholson’s Axe From ‘The Shining’ | Vanity Fair

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It’s one of the most iconic sequences in film history, acutely focused on one undeniable weapon. But the actual axe Jack Nicholson used to cleave through the door in Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” took an astonishing journey following that fateful day on set. Vanity Fair Hollywood Correspondent Anthony Breznican takes us through the story of a prop that was almost lost to history’s cutting room floor, only to eventually sell at auction for over $200,000.

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  1. potatomato :p

    September 24, 2020 at 4:18 pm

    That axe actually has a name and the name is

    John Cena

  2. Thierry

    September 24, 2020 at 4:18 pm

    Sorry, but the book is way better and the movie is crap compared to what it should have been.

    • Thierry

      September 24, 2020 at 4:19 pm

      Doctor sleep shows what the plot of the shining should have been.

    • Little Boy

      September 24, 2020 at 5:31 pm

      There’s always the miniseries for you

    • Tony Mac

      September 24, 2020 at 6:26 pm

      The movie ain’t trash, it’s just a much different version of the book. It’s one of the greatest horror movie of all time

  3. Monika Pokhrel

    September 24, 2020 at 4:18 pm

    To all the people who will comment “I’m so early”, you aren’t early. You’re on time.☠️

    • That RPDR Channel

      September 24, 2020 at 5:40 pm

      Nobody commented that…

  4. Sabina Ciardi

    September 24, 2020 at 4:19 pm

    I remember watching this witch my parents pretending to be sleeping under the blanket, they caught me when the woman came out of the bathtub and I screamed

  5. Abdullah Alsalem

    September 24, 2020 at 4:19 pm

    Plz make this a series and call it Prop Stop

  6. Axe Avier

    September 24, 2020 at 4:22 pm

    The real important prop of the shining is the dog suit costume, the head piece does have a few white stains

  7. Алексей Пётривич

    September 24, 2020 at 4:27 pm

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  8. Lesego Tshabalala

    September 24, 2020 at 4:30 pm

    The axe drives back and forth, the axe is tethered to the camera, I become the Axe, I am the A… Here’s Johnny!

  9. Garrick Groover

    September 24, 2020 at 4:31 pm

    Where is the prop now? I’m glad you axed.

  10. Damian Monzillo

    September 24, 2020 at 4:33 pm

    The Glass that everyone drank out of in the “We Accept You” scene in “Freaks”

  11. Danny Langevin Productions

    September 24, 2020 at 4:44 pm

    I bet that’s not even the actual one used in that one scene. So many props.

  12. jack worster

    September 24, 2020 at 4:47 pm

    Mr. Dalton, I can not be alone in feeling a need to spend timebin that room. Your colection is amazing. I would spend money to see it all. I commend your commitment an passion…

    • jack worster

      September 24, 2020 at 4:50 pm

      Maybe you should contact Tom Savini…?

  13. anacuriosademais emi

    September 24, 2020 at 4:48 pm

    We all love this scene!And also…. We should be in a mental institution… So.. Jack Nicholson love of my Life!

  14. No Bo

    September 24, 2020 at 4:55 pm

    And yet we only have hearsay to prove its authenticity as the actual ax use in the shining most iconic scene

  15. Anthony Petrovic

    September 24, 2020 at 5:01 pm

    Last

  16. Matt McMahon

    September 24, 2020 at 5:01 pm

    ok what does matthew dalton do as a job? dude looks hella young to be buying quater million dollar movie props

    • The Ninth

      September 24, 2020 at 5:23 pm

      I said the same thing

  17. The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society

    September 24, 2020 at 5:24 pm

    And here’s another one… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImVOrn-27qY

  18. Stephany Feege

    September 24, 2020 at 5:45 pm

    Maybe I can buy it for him for five bucks? Lmao I’m broke but I love the shining

  19. Alejandro Moore

    September 24, 2020 at 6:14 pm

    I remember Jack Nicholson say in the movie The Shining, Jack say here Johnny, he put his head in the hole in the door!

  20. Nour the Egyptian

    September 24, 2020 at 6:16 pm

    I felt for the guy who bought the axe. Seems like a good guy who found a cool hobby! I wish him well and prosperity in what he does.

  21. Alejandro Moore

    September 24, 2020 at 6:17 pm

    Why The Shining is a scary movie?

  22. divine fisherman

    September 24, 2020 at 6:22 pm

    greatest movie of all time.

  23. Miguel Oros

    September 24, 2020 at 6:28 pm

    That guy seems like the axe swinging type

  24. Jovan Dudley

    September 24, 2020 at 6:35 pm

    The first horror movie I saw was scream

  25. EliN

    September 24, 2020 at 6:54 pm

    That’s an expensive axe

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