The Shining -

Stanley Kubrick's film, The Shining, utilizes the idea of corridors to heighten the experience of suspense for the viewer through exaggerating the on-screen victim's sense of isolation. With the use of innovative techniques for filming, as with the use of the newly invented steadicam, the long continuous corridors of the Overlook Hotel add tension to every trip Wendy and Danny Torrance make inside the hotel. This sense of confinement is juxtaposed against the larger open spaces that Jack Torrance writes in and occupies. This theme is then reinforced by the hotel itself being completely isolated by a buffer of impenetrable wilderness. The corridors are also successful for providing a sense of directionality and the more-than-likely scenario of the procession being one of purpose. There is no turning around in these corridors. This idea finds full voice in the final chase scene between Jack and Danny through the hedge maze. Lost in the winding maze, Jack succumbs to the confusion of both the isolating corridors as well as the harsh wilderness.