#the-shining

#the-shining

Perhaps it's fitting that Al Bowlly's death is as well-remembered as his life, or rather, as his voice. After all, his most celebrated appearance in popular culture wasn't physical, but spectral. In Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980), when Jack Torrance enters the ballroom and the ballad titled Midnight, the Stars and You (1934) plays, the film reaches one of its most memorable moments.

The retailer just listed The Film Vault's Steelbook Special Edition and Solus Steelbook Editions of the classic 1980 horror movie on 4K Blu-ray. The regular Steelbook Edition comes with an acetate slipcover and is currently priced at $48.86. The Steelbook Special Edition is $87.07 and includes the following extras: a themed cigar box, two posters, five character cards, and three behind-the-scenes cards. Each Special Edition has a holographic sticker numbered to 6,000, so don't expect it to remain in stock for long.

If you happened to read this story when we originally published it in August or earlier this month, you may be as surprised as I was to learn this. That's because Walmart canceled many, if not all, preorders for this Steelbook Edition and a pricier Special Edition version on September 7-8. At the time, Walmart cited inventory shortages, so apparently something changed over the past few weeks.