MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Doctor Sleep’ Stumbles, Fails as Both Sequel and Adaptation

Did someone say, “Redrum?” Someone said, “Redrum, redrum.”

In an alternate universe, Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s 1977 horror novel, The Shining, wouldn’t exist. King, notoriously unhappy with Kubrick’s free-associative adaptation of one of his most personal novels, would be more than content if we did. Thankfully, we don’t live in that alternate universe. King’s early novel of abuse, trauma, and the supernatural endures as one of his most…