With The Shining, master director Stanley Kubrick has made one of the best horror films of all time. The film adaptation of the Stephen King novel has unique images such as Jack Nicholson’s manic, distorted face in the crack in the door, the twin sisters in the hotel corridor or the elevator from which a wave of blood slowly flows.
You can now stream Doctor Sleep, based on Stephen King’s literary sequel to The Shining, on Amazon Prime. The film impressively shows that a great Classics thought through sensibly can be done without trampling on the original and going its own way.
Doctor Sleep’s Awakening mixes horror of the past with melancholic drama at Prime
In the sequel, Ewan McGregor plays the adult Danny, who in the original film discovered the supernatural gift of the shining as a young boy. In the present of Doctor Sleep’s awakening, Danny is a broken alcoholic who, despite his abilities, wanders aimlessly through life and searches for inner peace. Then a young girl appears who has the same gift and hunted by a sect who inhale the shining like a drug.
Watch the German trailer for Doctor Sleep here:
Doctor Sleep – Final Trailer (German) HD
After a disturbing opening, the film splinters into individual parts after several time jumps, which director Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House) slowly assembles into a melancholic-eerie odyssey Even though the adult Danny Torrance is at the center of the plot, he is surprisingly not the decisive protagonist.
The character played by Ewan McGregor with traumatized vulnerability is rather crucial for the different moods and motifs of the film. Doctor Sleep is not a pure horror film. Flanagan occasionally conjures up nostalgic horror straight from Kubrick’s iconic imagery. Otherwise, his vision unfolds unpredictably between personal drama, straightforward thriller and bizarre fantasy.
On the one hand, the surreal cult deliriumwith jumps into other bodies or from one scene to the next. On the other side of the emotional horrorwhich brings characters together because of past or impending family tragedies. And when the finale brings us back to the beginning, you can’t help but get goosebumps.
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