Kyliegh Curran is essentially the new Danny Torrance here, minus the daddy issues. I still stand by Hitchcock's rule that a stronger antagonist creates a stronger film. She's ravishing in the initial scene where she lures a child into her witch-trap, but in the latter hours, her character ends up looking too vulnerable. On the other hand, it was really difficult for me to buy into Rebecca Ferguson's Rose the Hat as a compelling antagonist. That being said, I'm glad Flanagan didn't choose to add frequent jumpscares and water down the atmosphere he tries to build. There's no Jack Nicholson-level savagery in the film that makes your pupils dilate or scares that make your hair stand up. For starters, even with all its eerie atmosphere amid the modern-day setting, it doesn't give you the chills that The Shining did. I think this has worked both in favor of and against it. The film, according to King, stays faithful to the novel a lot more than Kubrick's version ever did. Well, for the most part, it doesn't.Įwan Mcgregor plays the adult Danny Torrance, who in the present day, has tried his best to move on from the nightmarish incidents that took place at the Overlook Hotel. As the run-time already reveals, it's a slow-burn psychological horror flick that doesn't rely too much on nostalgia from The Shining. I watched the 3-hour long director's cut of the film. Written and directed by Mike Flanagan (of Oculus, Gerald's Game, Ouija 2, and Hush), the film appears to be a weird blend of his atmospheric film-making style (which I love) and King's (mostly awkward) horror fantasies. Reviewed by arungeorge13 5 / 10 A not-bad, not-great sequel to The Shining! ĭoctor Sleep is a partially entertaining sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror classic The Shining. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes "Doctor Sleep." Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant "shining" power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the "steam" that children with the "shining" produce when they are slowly tortured to death.
They look harmless: mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance.
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