Early reactions have arrived for a followup to both King's original Shining book and Stanley Kubrick's classic 1980 film version (of which King, somewhat infamously, is not a huge fan).
Written and directed by Flanagan (who previously adapted King's novel Gerald's Game into a critically acclaimed Netflix film), Doctor Sleep stars Ewan McGregor as a forty-something year old Danny Torrance from The Shining. Having become an alcoholic (like his father) in his efforts to suppress his shining powers and deal with the trauma of his past, Danny travels to a small Massachusetts town where he s a group and uses his abilities to comfort the dying at a local hospice. However, when a young girl seeks his help in battling an evil cult (The True Knot) that preys on children who "shine", Danny realizes that in order to help her, he must finally confront the - literal - ghosts from his own childhood.
Doctor Sleep doesn't open in theaters for another two weeks, but Warner Bros. has gone ahead and lifted the embargo on social media press reactions ahead of then. You can check some of them out in the space below.
Most of these early reactions agree that Doctor Sleep is a the Doctor Sleep trailers would have you believe.
With a runtime just over two and a half hours long (IT Chapter Two was just its narrative didn't justify its near-three hour length, but that doesn't appear to be the case with this year's other anticipated Stephen King movie sequel. Hopefully, the actual reviews will be just as enthusiastic as these reactions and Doctor Sleep will prove to be yet another great horror film to add to this year's collection.
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