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Oct 21, 2019 · Steve Rose. Mon 21 Oct 2019 04.00 EDT. Stephen King rules modern horror – but how much of his reign can we take? In 2019, his stories seem to be everywhere. On Halloween comes Doctor Sleep, the...
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- Steve Rose
- Charlie Manx
- Children Who Shine
- Misery
- Salem's Lot
- Joe Collins and Pennywise
- The Stand
- The Dark Tower
- Gerald's Game
- The Ending of The Shining
- The Number 19
Stephen King doesn't just reference his own work in Doctor Sleep. He references his son Joe Hill's as well. In the novel, Dick Halloran tells Danny Torrance that his grandfather was friends with Charlie Manx, the vampiric villain of Hill's book NOS4A2. In turn, Manx refers to Doctor Sleep's villains, The True Knot, in his book. He says they have si...
Longtime King fans will find the True Knot's M.O. of kidnapping psychic children to be familiar. It's a plot point in several of King's stories. The can-toi from The Dark Tower had a huge operation of abducting psychics going, turning them into "Breakers" to bring down the titular tower. There's also Firestarter's The Shop, a government agency that...
In the novel of Doctor Sleep, it's mentioned that the True Knot maintain several campgrounds and bases in towns across America. King names a few, but the big one is Sidewinder, Colorado. Because not only is Sidewinder the town the Overlook Hotel was located outside of, it's also the setting for King's story Misery. RELATED:Stephen King: 10 Best 90s...
Another of the small towns the True Knot have hideaways in is Jerusalem's Lot, Maine. Often shortened to Salem's Lot, King's Constant Readers know this as the cursed town from his book of the same name. Over the course of that story, the town was overrun by vampires and ultimately abandoned by its few surviving residents. What's odd is that Salem's...
One of the deeper cut King easter eggs in the Doctor Sleep movie can be found in its opening. Outside the movie theater where Rose the Hat meets Snakebite Andi, you can just make out a poster for comedian Joe Collins in the background. Collins is a character in the last book of The Dark Tower series, the human disguise of a creature called Dandelo....
At the end of the movie, Danny tells Abra that to counter things like the Overlook and the True Knot, there needs to be people like them. In his words, "People that will take a stand." Now this could be a stretch, but we can't help but think this is a reference to King's first epic novel The Stand. The plot of that doorstopper follows a group of pe...
There are a few homages to The Dark Tower throughout Doctor Sleep,but the more easy to catch ones are the names of background companies. These are explicit references to King's magnum opus. The first is the name of the bus company that Dan Torrance rides into Frazier, Tet Transit. RELATED:10 Stephen King Novels To Read Before Seeing Amazon's The Da...
Doctor Sleep is not the first Stephen King adaptation that Mike Flanagan has helmed. Before, he directed the Netflix adaptation of Gerald's Game. That story followed a married couple experimenting with bondage, only for the husband to suffer a fatal heart attack after handcuffing the wife to the bed. She only manages to escape by pulling her hand t...
The biggest difference between the book and movie versions of The Shining is the ending. In the book's ending, the Overlook is destroyed by an overheating boiler. In the movie, Wendy and Danny escape and the hotel is abandoned. Mike Flanagan took advantage of his film being both a sequel to the Shining movie and an adaptation of the Doctor Sleep bo...
Aside from horror, Stephen King is also known for his huge love of baseball. It's no surprise then that Bradley Trevor, one of the True Knot's victims, is a ball player. But his player number, 19, is yet another King reference. 19 is number with huge significance in The Dark Tower, and it pops up all over the place, usually in the number of letters...
Nov 8, 2019 · Posted: Nov 8, 2019 8:30 pm. Full SPOILERS ahead for Doctor Sleep! With fans of both a classic novel and iconic horror film to reward for their eagle-eyed attention, Doctor Sleep has a...
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In a new interview with Bloody-Disgusting, Mike Flanagan talked about the villains in Doctor Sleep, “The True Knot,” who have been traveling the world and devouring the magical essence of...
Aug 4, 2017 · Read Dr. Sleep if you want more background on the “shine” that Jake evinces. I mean, yes, The Shining too, but Dr. Sleep gives a horrifically chilling vision of what bad guys do with kids like ...
Nov 8, 2019 · From Dan coping with the ghosts of his past to taking us back to the terrifying Overlook Hotel, Doctor Sleep is largely a triumph that celebrates every version of The Shining story.
Oct 27, 2022 · I really do. Given Mike Flanagan’s track record – the filmmaker having made two of the best Stephen King movies of all time based on two of the author’s hardest-to-adapt books – it’s impossible...
