Watched “The Shining” in my film analysis class, and realized some striking similarities.
*Spoilers for Echo and The Shining*
1: The main plot taking over the course of the week, some allusions to something more sinister going on throughout.
2: A curse on the town/hotel that causes people to go mad.
3: A voice with a protagonist, prophet or warning of doom; Tony in The Shining, and (I think) Sam in Echo.
4: The Protagonists escape, leaving the madness and danger behind.
5: A cyclical theme. Echo has had its hysteria happen in the 1879’s, and the Overlook Hotel had Jack murder his wife and kids in the 20’s (or whenever his reincarnation had a family), a repeat of events seeming to doom both locations forever.
Was The Shining a source of inspiration for Echo? Or am I just tweaking and it’s a coincidence?