Doctor
Sleep 9/10
Full
of spoilers. Why haven't more people seen Doctor Sleep? Why aren't
you all talking about how damn good this movie is? I saw this today
with CK and did not expect a ton out of it and did not expect to like
it as much as I did. I watch horror films but never actively seek
them out. I have read the book, I watched one of the mini series, and
I have seen The Shining. While this is a sequel to The Shining, both
the film and the book, it creates it own thing as well that I'd
actually like to see happen in the future. I would love to see the
young actress star in everything. That girl was so damned good in
this. And the villains. Holy crap the villains. These were some
spooky ass people. This is about three stories that end up colliding.
This
starts with a flashback of a young Danny Torrance living in Florida
with his mother after the events of the first movie. Danny has not
spoken since and is still being haunted by the ghosts from the
Overlook. He can't even go take a piss without that nasty ass bath
lady waiting for him in the bathtub. Meanwhile this little girl goes
off to pick flowers and stumbles upon this lady singing to herself
and picking flowers. She shows the little girl some tricks and
suddenly people start popping up in the woods. The girl wants to
leave but ends up being swarmed by these people, You don't see what
they do to her but you know the shit is not good.
Danny,
still a kid, talks to Dick Hallorann who helped him back at the
hotel. He tells him that he needs to learn how to capture the spirits
and lock them away in a box. Danny heads to the bathroom and traps
the hell out of the ghost and starts speaking again. Fast forward to
Danny now known as Dan he is a drunk. He still gets haunted and
drinks his ass off. One day he wakes up next to a lady with vomit
coming out her mouth. He gets up and sees his money is gone. He has
flashbacks of the previous night getting drunk and into a fight and
the woman doing drugs. He steals her money and just when he is about
to leave a kid comes out of a room. He puts the kid with the mom,
leaves the money after Dick guilts him, and he leaves. This little
girl that freaks her parents out by making all the utensils float on
the ceiling grows up and is 13 now and powerful as fuck. Abra Stone
be shining like no other has. She messages Dan over the years using a
chalkboard in Dan's apartment.
Dick
tells Dan that he has to teach Abra how to control her powers the way
he helped him. Rose and one of her teammates are in a theater where
this very young girl is with an older man. She makes the guy fall
asleep and tells him that he will get sick thinking of young girls
and carves a snakebite into his cheeks. She is approached by the
creepy group and drugged. She wakes up and they explain to her that
she is a “pusher.” The whole group shines in different ways. Rose
is the strongest one and they find people with the shining and make
them hurt. The more they hurt the more they shine and it emits a
“steam” that they consume. They end up capturing this young boy
and torture him to death stealing all the steam form him and then
burying him. Abra feels and sees this happen and freaks the fuck out
exploding Dan's bedroom wall. This group, called the True Knot, are
starving. It is getting harder to find people who shine because the
older they are the less powerful they are and drugs hinder it as
well. Dan who has been drinking from years has been hiding his
abilities.
During
the night Rose tries to get into Abra's head. Bad idea. I loved this
entire scene by the way. Seeing Rose fly through the sky and land in
the city and into Abra's room. The way it looked was so damned cool
with the way the camera rolled. Rose goes through Abra's memory file
which looks like boxes. One of them slams shut on Rose's hands and
her skin peels away. It was gross. She turns and there is Abra in
superhero form and not scared at all of Rose. Abra slams Rose back
into her physical body so hard she falls off the top of a camper and
her hand is mangled. She wants Rose now. Her crew thinks she should
not come because she is hurt. I think Rose is threatened by someone
else so powerful and wants the girl dead.
There
is far more that happens but I don't want to spoil more than I have
already. I want more people to see this. Rose was an incredible
villain. I could not have imagined a woman in yoga pants with a top
hat being as scary as she was. Abra was a cool ass hero. I loved
watching her get stronger as the movie progressed but agreed with
Rose that the girl was like her. Dan was portrayed amazingly. I like
that more movies are starting to show how not fun alcoholism is. The
shit used to look fun in movies. Now it looks like a sickness. I
liked the effects in this too. The camera work combined with the
special abilities made a great combination. Go see this. I am not a
critic. I'm just a dude that loves seeing movies. This was a good
companion piece to The Shining.
Ewan
McGregor as Dan Torrance
Rebecca
Ferguson as Rose the Hat
Kyliegh
Curran as Abra Stone
Cliff
Curtis as Billy Freeman
Carl
Lumbly as Dick Hallorann
Zahn
McClarnon as Crow Daddy
Emily
Alyn Lind as Snakebite Andi
Alex
Essoe as Wendy Torrance
Zackary
Momoh as Dave Stone
Jacob
Tremblay as Bradley Trevor
Henry
Thomas as Jack Torrance
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