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Axe used by Jack Nicholson in The Shining for sale as part of Stanley Kubrick auction
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PUBLISHEDOct 6, 2026, 9:00 AM
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Exclusive: Weapon is one of hundreds of items to be sold as part of the influential late director’s personal archive A special effects axe wielded by Jack Nicholson as he delivered his chillingly manic line “Here’s Johnny!
” in the 1980 horror movie The Shining is to go on sale. Nicholson’s character, Jack Torrance, uses an axe to hack out an opening in a locked door protecting his terrified wife Wendy, played by Shelley Duvall. It is also the…
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