A Big Yellow Homage to ‘The Shining’ for the New ‘Room 237’ Poster

Many ways in, no ways out. A perfect tagline for a great documentary about filmmaking. After playing the festival circuit throughout all of 2012, the doc Room 237 about Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and the conspiracy theories held within, is finally about to hit theaters. IFC Films has been building up the buzz with a few trailers and art, like that Mondo print last year, but now we have the final poster for Room 237 and it’s a huge homage/nod to The Shining’s poster in almost every way. Same font, same bright yellow color, same minimal design, except we get a maze keyhole on this. Time to enter the room and find out what lies within. Final poster art for Rodney Ascher’s documentary Room 237, via Entertainment Weekly (nice watermark): Here’s the original 1980 theatrical poster for Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, for reference or to compare. From the Fantastic Fest ’12 guide: “Rodney Ascher’s Room 237 is a fascinating documentary that explores bizarre …