Duration - 152Min
Mike Flanagan
Mike Flanagan
cast - Cliff Curtis, Ewan McGregor

resume - On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless-mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the "steam" that children with the "shining" produce when they are slowly tortured to death. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant "shining" power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes "Doctor Sleep." Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival

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Flanagan's film needed to be made, and Shining fans will applaud the effort. We really wanted this one to blow us away. At many times in the film, however, I felt the project would have benefited from having a strong and independent story and script editor cut out the too frequent fluff and veering off into language and timing best left in King's book. Too many of the characters were simple devices and lacked depth. In fact, the film, as a whole, too often seemed flat.
Rebecca Ferguson's "Rose The Hat" character seemed to, again, lack depth and often appears to be a fanboy's forbidden crush complete with dangerous curves, a magic hat and colorful braids rather than a nearly immortal, child-killing, soul-sucking banshee. Her minions seem oddly cliche. Kyleigh Curran held her own, but seemed a bit out of her depth - not surprising for a child - but this is what director's and coaches are for. Ewan McGregor was fine - but not particularly compelling, and who could expect him to carry the whole picture?
It's difficult - nearly impossible one could say - to create a successful sequel when significant portions of the sequel recast the original roles and try to recreate original scenes. My advice would have been - for the sake of a moving picture show - to avoid those visual mine fields altogether no matter now much Stephen King asked for it. Pick up the story with adolescent, then adult Danny and let mother, father and the original film be classic misty memories that stand alone. Build on them as they lay.
Overall, good effort that had potential, but you should have re-edited and "killed your darlings" before the final cut.

As much as I love horror films I almost never see them anymore just because they're all the same. Jump scares you can easily predict, stories so predictable you can guess the entire story just from the first five minutes, and yet despite trying so hard they don't make us scared at all. Throughout this movie however, I felt something that i haven't experienced in a long time. Dread. This movie had great atmosphere, tension, and it didn't just rely on a bunch of jump scares. While it did try to appeal to fans of the original shinning by making call backs to it, the film had a lot of originality to it that it felt like it's own movie. My only issue with the movie is the pacing. It didn't flow all that well and more or less just felt like things happening. This film however is a horror film I've been asking to see for a long time, and is one of my favorite I've seen in a long time.

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