Cool Glow-in-the-Dark Poster Art For THE SHINING "The Grady Twins" By Artist Justin Hampton
Here’s a great piece of poster art inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining called “The Grady Twins.” The art was created by artist Justin Hampton for Hero Complex Gallery, and it glows in the dark!
In the light, the poster features the creepy Grady twin girls, but in the dark, you see the twins as skeletons. It’s a fun piece!
The Grady twins in The Shining are the eerie spirits of two young girls who appear to Danny Torrance during his time at the Overlook Hotel.
In the novel, they are the daughters of Delbert Grady, a previous caretaker of the hotel who, under the influence of the malevolent forces within the Overlook, succumbed to madness and murdered his family with an axe before taking his own life.
In Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film adaptation, the Grady twins are iconic for their unsettling, simultaneous appearances, beckoning Danny with the chilling invitation to "come play with us."
This haunting image, along with their identical blue dresses and their alternating states of life and death, symbolizes the Overlook Hotel's cyclical nature of violence and manipulation.