Storyline
A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off of people like them in order to remain immortal.
Directors
Cast
Cliff Curtis, Robert Longstreet, Henry Thomas, Henry Thomas, Hugh Maguire, Bruce Greenwood, Esteban Cueto, Carel Struycken, Emily Alyn Lind, Ewan McGregor, Nicholas Pryor, Jason Davis, Michael Monks, Danny Lloyd, Zahn McClarnon, Molly C. Quinn, Deadra Moore, Evan Dumouchel, Carl Lumbly, Jacob Tremblay, Jocelin Donahue, James Flanagan, Katie Parker, Marc Farley, Rebecca Ferguson, Shane Brady, Alex Essoe, Bethany Anne Lind, Sadie Heim, Kk Heim, Juan Gaspard, Sallye Hooks, Charles Green, Zackary Momoh, Selena Anduze, Fedor Steer, Logan Medina, Kyliegh Curran, Met Clark, Dakota Hickman, Roger Dale Floyd, George Mengert, Chelsea Talmadge, Violet McGraw, Alyssa Gonzalez, Mistie Gibby, Callie Brook McClincy, Johnnie Gordon, MacLeod Andrews, Juan Carlos Romero Perez, Sarah Morrison, David Michael-Smith, Marc Demeter, Josh Turner, Jay D. Kacho, J.T. Blair, Kevin Petruski Jr., Thomas Downing, Scott Lane, Jeremy Connell, Shawndella Roberts, Kaitlyn McCormick
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Reviews
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IGN
The scary and powerful Doctor Sleep works best when doing its own thing rather than recreating parts of The Shining.
75
The Overlook Hotel is still plenty creepy, as is the crusty naked ghost lady in Room 217. But the adaptation of Stephen King's Doctor Sleep is more likely to keep you awake at night with the fresher stuff than the retreads.
70
Like HBO’s new Watchmen series, Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep doesn’t simply rehash its source material, and instead uses its characters, setting, and themes in smart and novel ways.
60
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.
60
It doesn’t have Jack Nicholson, Stanley Kubrick or even much of the Overlook Hotel, but Rebecca Ferguson and other good actors provide some shine of their own in Doctor Sleep, a drawn-out and seldom pulse-quickening follow-up to The Shining that still has enough going on to forestall any audience slumber.
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