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‘The Shining’ Screen-Used Axe Prop Heads to Auction With $55,000 Current Bid

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One of the most iconic horror movie props of all time is the axe swung by Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic The Shining, and as you might imagine, several different axe props were actually used for the making of the movie. One of them was recently sold off by The Prop Store for a whopping $209,000, and another one has now hit the auction block.

The Prop Store lets us know, “A number of fire axes were created for filming. Photographs from the set show as many as a dozen differing versions lined up ready for use.”

This latest auction for a screen-used prop axe from The Shining comes courtesy not of The Prop Store but rather Gotta Have Rock and Roll, with a starting bid of $55,000.

The website notes in their listing for the auction, “This axe prop was screen used by actor Jack Nicholson in the ultimate horror film, The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick. The axe prop is displayed in a 25 x 2.5 x 40.5 shadow box frame with photos from the film. Very good, screen used condition. Comes with a letter from NORANK Engineering, Engineers to the Film, Television and Entertainment Industry, dated June 8, 1989 stating that the axe prop was used in the film. Also comes with a Gotta Have Rock & Roll Certificate of Authenticity.”

With 2 bids thus far and 10 days left in the auction, The Shining screen-used axe is expected to fetch between $60,000 – $90,000, though it very well may go for even higher.

Gotta Have Rock and Roll is also currently auctioning off a screen-used knife from The Shining, which is signed by Danny Lloyd. That’s expected to go for a few thousand dollars.

You can check out both screen-used auction items below, as they appear today. For a deeper dive into the Stanley Kubrick classic, stream a recent episode of The Losers’ Club featuring Host writer and producer Jed Shepherd.

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Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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Do ‘Ready or Not’ and ‘Abigail’ Take Place in the Same Universe? Did You Spot This Connection?

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Both extremely bloody cat-and-mouse chases through massive mansions, Radio Silence’s horror movies Ready or Not and Abigail (now playing in theaters!) are certainly cut from the same cloth, but do they actually take place within a shared universe? It was a question the filmmakers were asked, and their response suggests that the answer to that question is YES.

Collider’s Perri Nemiroff asked the question of Radio Silence filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who co-directed both 2019’s Ready or Not and this year’s Abigail. As they point out, an Easter egg nestled within Abigail confirms a shared universe connection.

Bettinelli-Olpin tells Collider, “There is a portrait in the background of one of the scenes [in Abigail] of Henry Czerny’s [character from Ready or Not].” Gillet chimes in to clarify, “It would be a grandfather. A great, great, great, great grandfather [of Czerny’s character].”

Bettinelli-Olpin adds, “There is a little bit of a tied universe to Ready or Not within the movie.”

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Actor Henry Czerny played the character Tony Le Domas in Radio Silence’s crowd-pleasing hit Ready or Not, the owner of the Le Domas Gaming Dominion and patriarch of the Le Domas family. The film centers on the Le Domas family’s deal with the devil to build their fortune, which Samara Weaving’s character Grace of course finds herself paying the price for.

If the Le Domas family exists in the world of Abigail, as the aforementioned portrait suggests, then that would indeed indicate that both films exist within the same bloody universe!

And it would seem there’s a deeper connection between the Le Domas family and the Lazar crime family introduced in Abigail. Have fun playing around with that idea. We know you will!

We’ll get you started. Is it possible that Abigail’s father is Mr. Le Bail from Ready or Not…?

In Abigail, “After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.”

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