CINEMA Dr Sleep: Kubrick ‘shined’ from his rest*

Doctor Sleep is the sequel to 1980’s horror classic, The Shining. It cleverly draws on Stanley Kubrick’s masterful, if loose, adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of the same name to tell a different sort of story and is itself based on King’s own 2013 sequel to the novel.



Kubrick’s film was a richly evocative and affecting depiction of the disintegration of a man preyed upon by forces he did not understand. Its impact came from how hauntingly i…

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