The Jack Torrance axe meme originates from Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 psychological horror masterpiece, The Shining. In one of cinema's most famous scenes, Jack Nicholson's character breaks through a bathroom door with an axe to hunt down his wife. Peering through the splintered wood, he delivers the improvised line, 'Here's Johnny!'—a nod to Ed McMahon's introduction on The Tonight Show. The image became a viral sensation as a way to depict someone making a dramatic, unwanted, or intense entrance. It is frequently used in internet culture to satirize moments of sudden intrusion or to parody characters who are losing their minds.