They are many foreshadowing in the beginning of the film. The author has little things in the beginning of the film that set up major parts of the film at the end. For example, when Jack is told that the previous owner of the hotel went absolutely mental at the start of the movie. Firstly, it is revealed that the hotel has a dark past filled with evil and murder. Then later in the film, you can tell that Jack is on the verge of losing it when Wendy visits him in his office and Jack yells at her and tells her never to interrupt him again. From then on you are constantly paying close attention to Jack and his behavior. One of visual foreshadowing is when Jack is in the hallway. In two different scenes parts but similar there is a teddy bear doll