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‘Doctor Sleep’: The Flawed and Forgotten Sequel to ‘The Shining’
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‘Doctor Sleep’: The Flawed and Forgotten Sequel to ‘The Shining’

The followup to the beloved horror classic struggles to recapture the magic

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Aug 08, 2024
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Image of Rose the Hat facing off against Abra in ‘Doctor Sleep’ / Warner Bros.
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Many may know that Stephen King was no fan of the Stanley Kubrick movie made from his 1977 novel, The Shining. Yet, the creative liberties taken with the film have forever altered the story’s legacy. For King, Kubrick’s take on the novel simply failed to embody what he’d written. He famously summed up the differences by noting that while the…

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