Cool Stuff: The Shining Cuckoo Clock

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Designer Chris Dimino created a cuckoo clock themed after Stanley Kubrick’s classic The Shining. Dimino was challenged to create a cuckoo clock in which the clock itself, the cuckoo motion, sound, and the pendulum capture a moment in time fitting these elements to a concept. The solution was the classic moment from The Shining in which Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance comes crashing through the door wielding an ax.

The clock mimics the moment from the film, and every hour Jack breaks through the door and the famous line “Here’s Johnny” plays followed by a scream by Shining co-star Shelly Duvall. Check out the full clock after the jump.

Unfortunately, the clock is just a one-off concept, and is not being mass produced or available for sale anywhere. If it was, you’d see one on my wall. Although I think the scream of Shelly Duvall would get annoying real fast, especially at a rate of once an hour.

The Shining Cuckoo Clock

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  • james
    How about an Exorcist cuckoo clock! I imagine it having a little bed with Linda Blair sitting on it which is always visible (akin to Shelly on the clock above) and every hour her head starts spinning and a motorized priest comes out of a little door and shouts "the power of Christ compels you!"....that would be AWESOME!
  • Russ P.
    Funny, if you were going to go with a Kubrick film, you'd think it would be Clockwork Orange
  • Bart
    I got one of these, and Shelly Duvall's scream sounds a heck of a lot like an orgasm to me.
  • My stepfather collects clocks, especially cuckoo clocks. But somehow I don't think this one would be welcome in his collection....
  • omfg. I want.
  • greggorybasore
    Imagine the money that could be made from a Jack Nicholson themed series of cuckoo clocks! One Flew Over the cuckoos nest would be a great one to see.
  • misterclock
    You know what would be another awesome movie-themed clock? The Ring. It would be a digital clock and at the top of the hour, the clock would change to the videotape scene w/ creepy static sound in the background and the well and the girl climbs out of the well and she gets so close to the screen her face fills the screen and it looks like she peering into your room... you get the picture.
  • Beware the person who actually hangs this on their wall or places it on their mantle. They're likely a little loopy and have no taste in interior design.
  • greggorybasore
    I would actually love to see what else could be found in the living room of a person who would have this in it.
  • Everything about this is great except 1 thing.. her face
  • MickJ
    WENDY. PUT THE BAT ... DOWN.
  • Clayton McLeon
    What happened to Page 2?
  • zebrat
    that is just lovely. i would totally buy one, but you're right about the scream probably wearing thin after a bit.
    also, this makes me want to see a stop-motion version of the shining.
  • NoName7579
    That is awesome.
  • Oh man I need that in my life.
  • sideshowRaheem
    Scale seems a bit off but still......I want.
  • ChigurhFrosted
    That could scarcely be creepier...
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