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. 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. They look harmless: mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. In the novel of Doctor Sleep, Dan and Abra revisit the site of the burned hotel, but in Flanagan's film – as revealed in the first trailer – Dan ends up back in the hotel itself: a note perfect recreation of Kubrick's 1980 vision.On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. In the novel of The Shining, the Overlook is ultimately destroyed, whereas in the film it remained intact. Flanagan wrote the screenplay and also serves as the film's editor.įascinatingly, given King's famous antipathy for the film version, Flanagan has very much leaned into Doctor Sleep being a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's adaptation. King thought Gerald's Game was "terrific" and Hill House "a work of genius", so was happy to approve Flanagan as Doctor Sleep's caretaker. He also made the rather good Gerald's Game (again for Netflix), based on a Stephen King novel that had largely been considered unfilmable. Who directed Doctor Sleep?ĭoctor Sleep's director is Mike Flanagan, the horror prodigy whose previous work includes Oculus_, Ouija: Origin of Evil and the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House. Dan gets involved, plunging back into the heart of darkness he's been trying to move past. They get this from murdering children who have the Shining, and when the particularly steamful Abra Stone finds herself in their path, she starts contacting Dan via astral projection. The real antagonists this time are an itinerant cult called the True Knot, who travel the United States in Winnebagos and survive into extended lifespans by feeding on a psychic essence they call "Steam". In the past, the legacy of Jack Torrance and the events at the Overlook Hotel have driven Dan to alcoholism, but he's now sober, if fragile.Īngry ghosts from the Overlook still haunt him, but he keeps them trapped in "lockboxes" in his mind.
That's how he earned the nickname of the title.
The story finds Danny – now the more mature Dan – in New Hampshire, working in a hospice, where his psychic "Shining" ability helps ease terminally ill patients in their final moments. It begins with the aphorism "FEAR stands for Fuck Everything And Run". Stephen King revealed that he was writing the novel in 2011, and it was published in 2013. Doctor Sleep is a sequel to The Shining, picking up the story of Danny Torrance as an adult.
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