On the back of the Dr Sleep blu ray is a quote that says "The Best Horror of the Year" (Entertainment Focus).
I quite liked the book, having never liked the shining in any form (Book, Kubrik movie, mini series, audio book, boy did I try!!), but the film was merely ok.
Ewan MaGregor is the grown up Danny Torrance (inexplicably trim & good looking for a drunk & able to just show up in a town & blag a job & a house in 5 mins in a way that would make Frank Capra proud).
Psychic vampires, psychic kids, lots of ponderings on being old as is King's function in his twilight years, but really it's just so DAMN LONG!!!!!!
Theatrical cut runs 152 mins, "director's cut" runs 180. I went with theatrical & have no intention of watching a longer version.
There is an art in concise storytelling, both in film and literature. Please, just cut the fat & make these things shorter. Re-Animator, Night of the Living Dead, both around the 90 minute mark. I don't see many people remembering Dr Sleep beyond next year.
3/10
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