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But at some point during the winter, he must have suffered some kind of a complete mental breakdown. He ran amuck and killed his family with an ax.

16 seconds sound clip from the The Shining (1980) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:07:13 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- I don't suppose they said anything in Denver about the tragedy we had up here during the winter of 1970.

- I don't believe they did.

- Well, my predecessor in this job hired a man named Charles Grady as the winter caretaker.

- He came up with his wife and two little girls of about 8 and 10.

- He had a good employment record, good references. And from what I've been told, he seemed like a completely normal individual.

- But at some point during the winter, he must have suffered some kind of a complete mental breakdown. He ran amuck and killed his family with an ax.

- Stacked them neatly in a room in the west wing, and then he put both barrels of his shotgun in his mouth.

- The police thought that it was what the old-timers used to call cabin fever.

- A kind of claustrophobic reaction which can occur when people are shut in together over long periods of time.

- Wow. That is quite a story.

- Yeah, it is. It's still hard for me to believe it actually happened here. But it did.

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The Shining (1980) Sound Clip

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Actors: Jack Nicholson (Jack Torrance), Shelley Duvall (Wendy Torrance), Danny Lloyd (Danny Torrance), Scatman Crothers (Dick Hallorann), Philip Stone (Delbert Grady)

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