The Colorado REDRUM License Plate is another fan-requested plate that is just for fun and is not a screen accurate vanity prop. The 1980 psychological horror film The Shining was based on Stephen King's novel and starred Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, and Danny Lloyd. In the movie, the young son writes the word REDRUM on a door and his mother sees the word reflected into a mirror where it reads *.