Doctor Sleep is a Love Letter to Stephen King, The Shining, and Horror
Stephen King movie adaptations and I have had a tumultuous relationship at best. I like many of them - Misery gave Kathy Bates the opportunity to demonstrate her incredible acting skills (but muddled the creeping terror of the book by introducing a friendly bumbling cop for us to keep up with), Thinner was terrible, the 2019 Pet Sematary remake was painful to sit through, It Chapter Two tricked the audience into watching the same sequence of events over and over again, nobody watched (or liked) The Dark Tower , and Netflix's In the Tall Grass tried its best. Of course there are the classics like Stand By Me , The Green Mile , Shawshank Redemption , and 1408 (I'm kidding, I just have a soft spot for that one in particular). Then there's The Shining . I want to acknowledge something briefly, before I delve into praising this work of art. Stanley Kubrick abused Shelley Duvall horrifically to force her into a deteriorating mental state...