Henry Thomas reproducing Jack Nicholson's Jack Torrance is a high or low point, depending on your perspective. "Doctor Sleep" even brings in lookalike actors. Opinion What 'It Chapter Two' proves about the power of sequels in modern pop culture That allows the filmmakers to place "Doctor Sleep's” final act in a reproduction of Kubrick's 1980s set. So he and Abra lure their enemy up to the mountains. Dan, for somewhat obscure reasons, decides that fighting Rose at the old Overlook will give him an advantage. The reminder is needed, presumably, because without it the audience might start sympathizing with these sorry specimens.īeating up on Rose and company is fun, but the real emotional payoff of "Doctor Sleep" comes in revisiting its famous predecessor. Abra keeps telling the vampires, "You deserve it!" after she hands them another painful, humiliating defeat.
Supervillain Rose is tossed across grocery stores and has her hand mangled her friends fare even worse.
But they are also hopelessly outgunned from the start by Abra, whose powers include telepathy, telekinesis, psychic blasts and unwavering sangfroid. Rose the Hat and her crew are frightening child killers. (A bit over the top, you say? That's Stephen King for you.) Rose is the leader of a group of peripatetic psychic vampires who eat the pain, fear and powers of shining children. Like Dan, Abra has a psychic ability which they call a "shining." Abra is also being stalked by the villainous Rose the Hat (Rebecca Ferguson). Forty years later, when the bulk "Doctor Sleep" is set, Dan meets a young girl named Abra Stone (Kyliegh Curran).
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