Here’s Stanley!

In 1966, at 38, Stanley Kubrick told a friend he wanted to make “the world’s scariest movie.” The idea may have stemmed from childhood fears. Kubrick wasn’t particularly brave in his youth. His father, Jacques Leonard Kubrick, was a doctor, and young Stanley grew up terrified of medicine. According to his third wife, Christiane, “by the time he was a teenager, he was very fearful of unreal things, as well as real things.”