![]() ![]() ![]() Having established my credentials as a complete geek for all things Overlook Hotel, here’s how Doctor Sleep stacks up:ĭoctor Sleep faces an uphill climb. It’s a thrilling character study of a man under intense pressure, both uncomfortably real and terrifyingly otherworldly. The novel of the same name, written by Stephen King, is another of my favorites. Now it’s a movie I watch every year when the snow starts falling. I watched it with a friend during a blizzard when I was 15, and it scared my pants off. The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick and released in 1980, is one of my favorite horror movies of all time. But when Abra finds herself pursued by Rose “The Hat” (Rebecca Ferguson) and the True Knot, a group of vampires who feed on the shine, Dan has to find it in himself to confront his past and his own abilities in order to protect this young girl. While trying to straighten his life out in a small town in New England, Dan makes contact with Abra (Kyliegh Curran), another girl who shares his “shining”- that strange assortment of psychic powers he has been trying to suppress with alcohol. Struggling with the trauma of his father’s failed attempt to murder him and his mother, Daniel “Doc” Torrance (Ewan McGregor) grows up with a serious alcohol problem, which spirals into a host of other issues. ![]()
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