Doctor Sleep

Warner Bros. | Release Date: November 8, 2019

7.2	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 515 Ratings

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acebadgerNov 9, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Doctor Sleep is an interesting continuation of The Shining 'universe' if you want to call it that. In this movie we see an adult Danny Torrance struggling with alcoholism as a result of trying to suppress his abilities. He ends up reluctantly taking a young girl with similar abilities under his wing out of necessity. There are several scenes as well that both recreate scenes from The Shining and pay homage to it. We even go back to the Overlook in a cleverly edited scene that brings back those same feelings of dread the first film gave. I found a lot of the scenes unnerving as the concept of the villain's essentially eating your soul is kinda terrifying. It's also fascinating to debate whether or not it's true that the oldest in the group is possibly hundreds or thousands of years old. Because that then begs the question of who these other people are and where they came from. It's eerie to think about in the sense of realizing how many people they've eaten to 'live long'. Possibly the most disturbing scene I've seen in a long time is the one in which they eat a young boy who had just won a baseball game. The acting on behalf of the child actor was disturbing and surreal to the point where it almost seems real. Overall this movie is quite a ride and is worth the watch, it has lots of great foreshadowing and reincorporation.… Expand