The uncanny is something that can be perceived as normal, but there is something slightly off about it which your mind cannot pinpoint – for example, a teddy bear with human teeth or a mask obscuring a face. Maria M. Tatar states this in her text that the uncanny takes something familiar and causes it to “provoke a sense of dread precisely because they are at once strange and familiar” (Tatar, 1981, Pg. 169). This means a life-size doll of a human can be perceived as “uncanny” because it is so close to being human but something is not quite right and your brain cannot understand why. That is what the uncanny is.
The Uncanny in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) - Word Count: 1394 