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Rob Ager has done an obsessive study of the floorplan of the Overlook Hotel from The Shining, even going so far as to obtain blueprints for the sets used. He's discovered that directory Stanley Kubrick intentionally introduced impossible doors and windows, and implied (or flat out depicted) physically impossible floorplans as a means of disorienting and unnerving the audience.

It worked, Stanley. The Shining has always felt like a bad dream to me, right from the start, and until now I could never quite put my finger on why. I was never consciously aware of the Escher-like impossibleness of the hotel's layout. It just felt wrong.

Part 2 of this video is here.