Twins, Lisa and Louise Burns on the set of “The Shining”, 1980
Arguably one of the creepiest parts of Stanley Kubrick’s (already scary) “The Shining” is when young Danny rode in on his tricycle to find the Grady twins standing at the edge of the hallway. The girls’ chopped their beloved father to pieces after he’d gone crazy from taking care of the hotel that past winter.
The real-life Burns twins said that they’d had a blast playing the pair of ghosts on set. They said this to the Daily Mail, “Every day felt like we’d been invited to a very exclusive party and we were the youngest, luckiest people to be there…”