The haunted room in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is Room 237. Jack Torrance’s son Danny is warned not to enter it, but he later encounters disturbing supernatural events inside the room.
The number differs from Stephen King’s novel, in which the infamous room is Room 217. Kubrick changed the number for the film after the Timberline Lodge in Oregon, used for exterior shots of the Overlook Hotel, requested that its real Room 217 not be associated with horror. The lodge did not have a Room 237, making the fictional number safer for its guests.
Room 237 became one of the film’s most discussed locations. Its bathtub apparition and the later revelation involving an old woman are central to the film’s unsettling imagery. The number is also used in the title of Room 237, a 2012 documentary examining interpretations of The Shining.