A photo featuring Jack Nicholson from the ending of the iconic 1980 horror film The Shining went unexpectedly viral on Sunday.
The picture shows the now-84-year-old actor smiling and waving while standing in the front of a large crowd at the ghost-infested Overlook Hotel in a group picture that was famously July 4th, 1921, in the film.
Many Twitter users took to the social media to point out that this year's 4th of July would mark the 100th anniversary of the fictitious party, and expressed their opinions and theories surrounding the picture.
A real good time: A photo featuring Jack Nicholson from the end of the 1980 film The Shining unexpectedly went viral on Sunday
The movie was based on the 1977 novel of the same name, which was written by Stephen King, who has expressed disappointment about the adaptation of his book.
The feature follows writer and recovering alcoholic Jack Torrance as he becomes a caretaker at the Overlook Hotel in Colorado for its winter season, taking his wife Wendy and young son Danny, played by Shelley Duvall and Danny Lloyd, with him.
However, the troubled figure begins to lose his mind with the influence of supernatural entities that have taken up residence in the hotel and eventually attempts to murder his family.
The film concludes when the ghost-possessed Torrance chases his wife and son, the latter of whom has psychic abilities, through a snowy maze and freezes to death.
Claustrophobic reaction: The film follows a writer and recovering alcoholic who begins to lose his mind and endanger his family when he becomes the caretaker of a ghost-infested hotel
Extraordinary talent: The Stanley Kubrick-directed feature was based on Stephen King's 1977 novel of the same name
The feature was released to an initially mixed critical reception, although it has been reviewed much more favorably since its initial debut.
Many viewers have speculated that the photo from the feature's ending implies that Nicholson's character's soul has been taken into the hotel, among other supernatural occurrences.
Director Stanley Kubrick previously discussed the photograph and its implications, and according to The Take, he expressed that Torrance may have been at the hotel prior to his arrival as a caretaker.
Specifically, the filmmaker remarked: 'The ballroom photograph at the very end suggests the reincarnation of Jack.'
