Mike Flanagan to Direct ‘The Shining’ Sequel ‘Doctor Sleep’
"Doctor Sleep is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King. It is a sequel to his novel The Shining (1977), released in September 2013. King stated that it is "a return to balls-to-the-wall, keep-the-lights-on horror"."
It's based around Danny as an adult and his gifts of memory serves. It ends up
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on the site where the overlook once stood, with loads of caravaners drawing on the energy there with Danny to stop them
Again if memory serves I read it en it first came
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I saw things like that in here and in other "woman problems" topics so...... Am I the only one that thinks some authorities needs to be alerted about Saner and him possibly being a rapist and/or kidnapper ?
Saner is not being serious. Unless its the subject of Santa!
76% with 38 indexed reviews. edit: 82%, 50 reviews.
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Doctor Sleep forsakes the elemental terror of its predecessor for a more contemplative sequel that balances poignant themes against spine-tingling chills.
A common note I found is that it doesn't really try to be nearly as scary as the original. The film is also 2.5 hours long, keeping up with the tradition of modern films being extra long.
There are moments where he recreates direct shots and revisits locations from the original movie (you’ll know them when you see them), but this is not ‘The Shining Part II’. Where that film was a claustrophobic study in madness, paranoia and corruption, Doctor Sleep is an expansive, sombre, multi-location, multi-character drama, a world away from its progenitor. Interestingly, despite more redrum than you could shake a kcits at, it isn’t particularly scary or unsettling. Perhaps Flanagan knew that trying to match The Shining in the terror stakes was a fool’s errand. Perhaps the flaws in King’s story, which keeps its trio of central characters apart for a length of time that could either be called character-building, flabby or plain boring (depending on your point of view), make jolts harder to come by.
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Working off source material that is very different from its predecessor, anyone expecting a straightforward Shining sequel will be disappointed. This isn’t a gruelling exercise in pure horror. It’s odder and more contemplative, but worth checking in.
Doctor Sleep is a completely different beast to The Shining. The earlier story is about a family’s struggles with demons stemming from alcoholism; the follow-up is about recovery, trying to overcome said demons. As such, Dan doesn’t cower in fear from the Overlook’s many terrifying spirits. (The woman in Room 237 and the Grady Twins are certainly present.) Instead, he uses them and the power of the hungry evil hotel to his advantage. As a fan of Kubrick’s movie, as Flanagan clearly is, it’s supremely satisfying to see the iconography of The Shining as a weapon against an even greater foe.
And in this way, Flanagan and Doctor Sleep forge their own place in horror canon. It’s not about being scared, it’s about overcoming childhood fears to succeed in adulthood. While it’s harrowing and upsetting and certainly very creepy, Doctor Sleep doesn’t terrify. But I don’t think it needs to. It ends up feeling like a deeply personal story from a filmmaker who’s taking his love for literary and cinematic titans and channeling that into his own unique and chilling stamp on the genre.
Doctor Sleep is more eerie than actually scary, and when you’re dealing with an audience of modern horror fans who might be expecting ghouls and the like jumping out of the dark, a movie that’s more of a supernatural thriller than a horror flick is likely to disappoint some of them.
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Doctor Sleep certainly has its merits, and some might appreciate the fact it’s not just a moment-by-moment repeat of The Shining, especially if that isn’t the expectation with which one goes into seeing the movie. Although this is a sequel to The Shining, it’s a lot more than just The Shining: Part 2. Then again, others might watch the movie wondering why one would make a sequel to one of the scariest movies of all time and not make it scarier.
7/10
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Kind of what I expected (not the scores but the style and atmosphere of the movies). I never expected a 'sequel' as such but a movie set in that universe focusing on Danny Torrance. From the description of him fighting his alcoholism, visions and the story he becomes entangled in it became quite clear it would be a different beast.
Doctor Sleep has its creepy moments, but it often feels like the movie isn’t even trying to frighten you. The movie’s characters are too busy doing things to spend much time being scared; even its hunted teenage girl is a budding badass. The only people it should really terrify are die-hard fans of Kubrick’s Shining who think re-creating some of its images (and even recasting its roles) is sacrilege.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
I liked Chris Stuckmann's review, he's a better reviewer than most, usually i agree with him. It's not scary as in jump scares no, but its also not how horror should be judged, there's more to it and it's individual what you find scary so that list is pretty pathetic imo.
If you visit the article in the link, you will see they judge it in terms of: suspense, spookiness, and gore, and not just jump scares (of which The Shining had none, anyway?)
edit: But that's a good review, I liked listening to it.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
Damn, I killed two movies at the box office. I watched Terminator and this, and we all know Terminator is bombing, and now this is performing way below expectations.
The big shock here this weekend is how Warner Bros, which goes toe-to-toe with Universal/Blumhouse when it comes to commanding the horror space at the B.O., was completely blindsided here by a disastrous performance of its well-reviewed (73% fresh), well-received (B+ CinemaScore and 4 stars on Screen Engine/Comscore PostTrak, 60% definite recommend) Stephen King sequel Doctor Sleep, a mid $50M-ish production that was expected to come in north of $25M and is way short in No. 2 with, gulp, $12.6M. Holy crap.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
Bombed for sure. Once we include projected home video sales and so on (without them it's ever worse!), the film will have lost at minimum $20M for the studio and possibly more than $30M (remains to be seen exactly how much by seeing how it performs in the coming weeks).
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
Really loved it! Great dark fantasy-horror like only Stephen King can do. Lots of really scary and creepy scenes and none of it is cheap jump scares. The slate.com screen above could not be more wrong.. Just one example; small child tied up and _slowly_ getting murdered by a mob, really intense screaming (gets very loud at the cinema), quite horrific. Great atmosphere and acting overall. Really liked the astral projection scenes. One of the better King movies i've seen for sure.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
You should definitely watch it, it gets referenced multiple times and the whole gimmick of the film is that "'member monster x/y/z from Shining? It's back!".
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
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I watched Terminator and this, and we all know Terminator is bombing, and now this is performing 
