Doctor Sleep (2019)

The next chapter in The Shining story

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Release Date: Nov 08, 2019
Rated: R | Runtime: 152 Mins | Language: English
Director: Mike Flanagan
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Bruce Greenwood, Zahn McClarnon, Emily Alyn Lind, Jacob Tremblay

Summary

Years following the events of "The Shining", an now-adult Dan Torrence meets a young girl with similar powers as his and tries to protect her from a cult known as The True Knots who prey on children with powers to remain immortal.

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What to Expect

Doctor Sleep picks up where The Shining left off 39 years prior. It reminds you about Danny, his mom and his maniac dad Jack before transitioning seamlessly into a parallel story that happened during the same time involving a string of child murders. Fast-forward to present day and you have cute little Danny all grown up and living a really crappy drunken life. Doctor Sleep is about Danny having to get past his childhood trauma to help another young girl avoid a fate far worse than what he experienced. Like The Shining, it's long movie that clocks in at about two and a half hours so there's a bit of a commitment to be made if you sit down to watch this. But also like The Shining, it's no slow burn. Pacing is solid throughout, there's really no dull moments. Doctor Sleep is a crazy psychedelic mind bender that is a surprisingly effective sequel to a legendary horror film. I honestly didn't know how Flanagan was going to pull it off, but he nailed it.

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Critic Reviews:

I still don't know if "The Shining" needed a second act, but "Doctor Sleep" presents one that's fresh and unsettling enough to justify its existence.

– Variety

Make no mistake—Doctor Sleep is an exemplary achievement in genre storytelling, and one of the most confidently crafted King adaptations of 2019 (which, considering the other King films released this year, is saying A LOT).

– Daily Dead

Doctor Sleep relies way too much on borrowed inspiration and eventually runs out of — pardon the word — steam. But this flawed hybrid and King and Kubrick still has the stuff to keep you up nights.

– Rolling Stone