One “master” here is of course the 2013 Stephen King source novel, a sequel to the horror-meister’s 1977 opus The Shining. The other entity Flanagan feels obliged to serve is Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of The Shining, reviled by King yet revered by many. In filming Doctor Sleep, Flanagan has made it both an adaptation of King’s novel and a sequel to Kubrick’s film. The rushed Danny-Abra dynamic aside, the first two-thirds of Doctor Sleep are a very well orchestrated stretch of screen time (with a couple of scenes that unflinchingly remind us this is horror movie territory, after all). I don’t know how Flanagan ultimately feels about the two masters he set out to serve here, but there were more parts of Doctor Sleep the movie that I loved than there were ones I disliked.

Source: The Star November 05, 2019 01:07 UTC