Room 237

Room 237 is a documentary about the many interpretations that fans have attached to Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror film The Shining. Rather than settling on a single reading, the film gives voice to five enthusiasts and researchers who each see something different buried in Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's novel, among them Bill Blakemore, Geoffrey Cocks, Juli Kearns, John Fell Ryan and Jay Weidner, who all appear as themselves. Their arguments are presented through narration, clips, animation and staged reenactments, so that the theories unfold as personal obsessions rather than settled fact.

Rodney Ascher directed and wrote the film, which was produced by Tim Kirk for Highland Park Classics. It runs 103 minutes and was released in October 2012, arriving after Ascher's earlier short documentaries and establishing the essayistic, interview-driven approach he would develop further in later features.

On TMDB the film holds a rating of 6.1 out of 10 from 538 votes, a modest reception that suggests audiences were divided over its deliberately subjective method. The documentary is less concerned with proving any single theory than with showing how deeply a widely seen film can lodge itself in the minds of its viewers.