'Doctor Sleep' Is Haunted By The Ghost Of Stanley Kubrick
Mike Flanagan directs a meandering, imitative sequel to both the Stephen King book and the Stanley Kubrick movie, The Shining; its nonhorror elements prove more persuasive than its scares.
The screen history of Stephen King adaptations has for decades couched a peculiar irony: Namely, that of the dozens and dozens of films that have been produced from his work — many of them not-so-great — the author famously detested the most revered, Stanley Kubrick's 1980 version of The Shining.
King didn't like the cold, cavalier treatment of his novel, and he cared neither for Jack Nicholson's lead performance as Jack Torrance, which he thought signaled insanity too early,
