Jack Torrance even seems to have been absorbed by the power of the Hotel, with his visage appearing alongside the other souls in the enigmatic photograph at the end of the film. Meanwhile, Jack is lost in the snow and quickly overcome by the cold, freezing to death by the time of the sunrise. Instead, Jack is killed by winter after chasing Danny into the topiary maze on the grounds of the building without any winter wear.ĭanny tricks him and is able to escape the maze to reunite with his mother. This means that there's no fire to destroy the Overlook Hotel in the end. Hallorann doesn't escape the Overlook and is killed by Jack during his attempted rampage, and the boilers were removed completely from the film version of the story.
The film ultimately ended in a similar place - with Jack dead and both Wendy and Danny alive - but it got there in a very different manner. RELATED: The Shining: The True Story & Real-Life Hotel Behind The Movie It's an all-together happier ending than the movie, which ends on a much more ambiguous and unsettling tone. However, he is unable to stop the boiler, and the resulting explosion kills Jack instantly and destroys the Overlook, seemingly ending the spirits that were within it. Jack rushes to the basement, which saves Danny, Wendy and Hallorann, who actually survives the events of the book.
If the pressure isn't vented, it will explode and destroy the hotel.
That's when Danny reveals that Jack had never adjusted the pressure on the hotel's boilers, which genuinely unsettles the entity. The Hotel is able to take over Jack again, destroying what remains of him in a rage and destroying his mind.
But before he can kill his son, Jack is able to regain some semblance of himself, which gives Danny the chance to run. In the original novel, Jack Torrance is driven mad and possessed by the spirit of the Overlook Hotel. Stephen King's original version of The Shining ended differently than the film version that was directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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