It seems that in Amazon Prime Video I like adaptations of novels Stephen Kingbecause just a few days ago we told you about the arrival on said platform of ‘Item’ and today it’s time to talk about the case of ‘Doctor Sleep’, which has given the surprise appearing there this Thursday, October 6. The most curious of all is that she has also disappeared from hbo maxwhere it has only been available for a few months.
Written and directed by mike flanagan‘Doctor Sleep’ was a small failure in its passage through theaters, which led to Warner cancel the sequel Focused on Hallorann that was planned. Luckily, what that didn’t accomplish economic disappointment is to leave us without a director’s cut that many ensure that it improves to which it came to theaters, the latter being the one that we can currently see on Prime Video.
Why is it worth watching?
Set several decades after the events narrated in ‘The glow’‘Doctor Sueño’ had before it a difficult challenge to achieve, since Stephen King has always shown his disgust with the film directed by Stanley Kubrickbut he himself claimed that ‘Doctor Sleep’ redeemed everything that he had disliked about the film led by Jack Nicholson.
The funny thing is that I I’ve always believed that ‘Doctor Sleep’ works better the further away it is from ‘The Shining’since for most of its footage it has very little to do with that horror movie classic, shining especially rebecca ferguson as the great villain of the show. In addition, Flanagan places her wonderfully as a threat in a presentation scene that is difficult to improve.
To all this we must add a slow pace that knows how to cook the tension over low heat so that both the story and the characters breathe and give the final result greater entity. It is true that there are a few clichés here and there, especially in the introduction phase of the Danny Torrance of a very solvent Ewan MacGregorbut nothing too annoying.
In the end, it is true that it does not have the same iconic force as ‘The Shining’ and that the need to strengthen ties with it is not always a good thing for ‘Doctor Sleep’, but it’s a shame that the public showed so little interest in it -the 72 million that it entered were scarce compared to the 45 that it cost, although some sources raise the figure to 55- and here you have a golden opportunity to recover it.
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It is one of the most unfair failures of recent years and a great horror film: the sequel to one of the most mythical adaptations of Stephen King arrives on Amazon Prime Video