The Shining's creepy Grady twins look unrecognizable 44 years after iconic horror

The iconic twins from ' The Shining ' are unrecognizable 44 years after the film's release.

Lisa and Louise Burns were 12 when they played the ghastly Grady twins in Stanley Kubrick's spine-chilling classic film . Now at 55, the sisters look vibrant and full of life.

The duo share photos of themselves on their joint Instagram with their latest posted last April. The two don matching smiles as they posed with London police officers.

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In the movie, they depicted the eerie apparitions of the murdered Grady twins in matching blue dresses and blank expressions, haunting the protagonist's son during their stay at a secluded hotel in the Colorado Rockies.

Since then, the twins have left acting behind with Lisa pursuing law and Louise becoming a published scientist. They reminisced about their on-set experiences and admitted to being "naturally spooky".

They confessed in an interview with Cosmopolitan: "We're naturally spooky. But we did practice our timing - saying things in unison - and we worked on saying our lines in a hollow, other-worldly kind of way a number of times."

"We saw people in scary makeup but it always felt more like we were at an elaborate fancy dress party. It just wasn't that freaky," they continued.

The follow-up to the spine-chilling classic, Doctor Sleep, hit movies four years ago with Ewan McGregor taking on the role of Dan Torrance, the now-adult character with eerie psychic abilities from the original movie and book. He revisits the haunted Overlook Hotel, where he had a harrowing ordeal with his father.

Years of drowning his memories and supernatural skills in booze, Dan's powers resurface when he ditches the drink. The 1980 original is hailed as one of Kubrick's masterpieces and stands tall as a titan in the horror genre, inspiring endless spoofs and homages of its most unforgettable moments.

However, Stephen King, the mastermind behind the novel that inspired the film, famously disapproved of the cinematic version, arguing it veered too far from his vision. In 2013, King penned Doctor Sleep, a sequel to his 1977 book, which delves into the life of an older Dan Torrence.

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