Doctor Sleep Review Caught In A Fight Between Kubrick And King
But I am a fan of director Mike Flanagan, who in 2017 helmed the best Stephen King adaptation to date, Gerald’s Game — bite me — and also spearheaded the genuinely skin-crawl-frightening Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House. I walked into Doctor Sleep very curious. Curious to see how Flanagan was going to craft a film that stays true to King’s Doctor Sleep novel while also continuing the story of Kubrick’s The Shining, which famously altered a whole bunch of stuff from King’s original book, including the ending — something he wanted to achieve, not necessarily something fans begged for....