She soon finds Dan and Abra in the room where Jack Torrance once tries to write his novel. Upon arriving, the hotel slowly comes back to life, and even moreso when Rose gets there - she sees the famous shot of an elevator emptying blood into the hall. They lure her to the Overlook Hotel, where they can use the inherent power of the location to assist in their fight against her. With most of the True Knot eliminated, Dan and his protege Abra realized they're about to face the full force of Rose the Hat. Instead, he greeted Wendy with a big smile and a jovial 'great party, isn't it?' Dan specifically mentions meeting that spirit when he talks to the ghost of Hallorann after years apart, complaining about how frustrating that man was and that he was the last spirit that he had to seal away.

He had a large bloody gash in his head, although this didn't lower his spirits in the slightest. Garrity appeared only briefly in the original film, standing out as one of the few spirits who only targeted Wendy as she tried to flee her husband. Dan learned to lock them away in his mind, although he's forced to unleash them all in the climax.ĭan even makes specific reference to one of the specific spirits, Mister Garrity. Some of the more iconic moments from the original movie (such as the Grady Twins and the rotting Old Woman in Room 237) appear to Dan across the course of the film, either as new threats to him in his adulthood or as flashbacks to his days at the Overlook. They target Dan after the closing of the Overlook Hotel, trying to claim him after the events of the previous movie led to the shutdown of the hotel. Most of the distinct spirits that appeared in The Shining have some kind of role to play in Doctor Sleep. It's deliberately modeled on the opening moments of The Shining including the wide-angle shots used when the Torrances first went into the mountains to go to the Overlook Hotel, recreating the effect of moving through the landscape. Even some direct sequences are recreated almost shot for shot, including the aerial perspective as Dan and Abra approach the Overlook Hotel to lure Rose the Hat there.

The film is photographed and edited in a very particular manner, full of grand shots from above and with plenty of slow dissolves serving as many of the transitions between scenes.ĭoctor Sleep director Mike Flanagan mimics this style in the sequel, ensuring that it can be seen as a continuation of the original from a metatextual filmmaking perspective. The Shining wasn't the first time his films had flirted with horror (with the earlier 2001: A Space Odyssey featuring one of cinema's most chilling villains in the robotic HAL), but it did become his first real foray into the genre. The Shining was directed by Stanley Kubrick, who is typically held up as one of the best directors of the 20th century.

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